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themselves to the practical collector, 
who will readily concede to us the fact, 
that however prolific a district may be by 
nature, we shall never fully realize this 
until we have employed art and artifice 
for ascertaining its productiveness. 
TRANSFORMATIONS OF INSECTS. 
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ‘INTELLI- 
GENCER.’ 
Sir, — In reference to this subject, men- 
tioned in your last number, I wish to call 
the attention of your readers to the fol- 
lowing observations, which appeared in 
the ‘ Zoologist’ ten years ago : — 
“The larvae of Stylops, on their first 
entrance into life, are excessively minute ; 
they possess a general resemblance in 
form to the well-known Lcpisma sac- 
charina, being stoutest shortly behind 
the head, and tapering gradually to the 
posterior extremity; * * * * * 
the pro-, meso- and metathorax are each 
furnished with a pair of moderately long 
legs.” 
“ It soon undergoes an important 
transformation ; * * * * * w ; th 
its first skin it sheds also its legs, and 
becomes perfectly, or at least apparently, 
apod.” 
“ Sitaris humeralis. The foetal larva 
of this beetle is extremely minute, active 
and hexapod; its general figure re- 
sembles that of Lcpisma saccharina, but 
it is somewhat more flattened ; * * * * 
after its metamorphosis it appears as a 
white, obese, fleshy, apod maggot.” 
The above will be found at pp. 1794 
to 1800 of the ‘Zoologist,’ with several 
other instances of what Mr. Newman 
calls falal larva;. 
J. A. W. 
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Arranged as in the ‘ Manual of 
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London: John Van Voorst, 1, Pater- 
noster Row'. 
O N SATURDAY, October 3, 1857, 
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