INSECTA_, COLEOPTERA. 
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by Qhapman iu the head of a feeding larva. The young external 
larv^ §eems to differ from the coleopterous type only in not 
having a spiracle on the 12th segment; a?id the full-grown larva 
closely resembles that of a Crabro or Pemphredon {Hym.). 
Chapman (pi. xvi.) figures the larva at different stages and in 
different aspects, with highly magnified details. Murray, ibid, 
p. 326 et seq.j supplements Chapman’s observations by an 
account of the method of oviposition employed by a Rhipiphorus 
bred by him, the egg, which is much smaller than the wasp- 
Cgg, being laid with a drop of gummy thread against the side of 
^ box in which the beetle was kept. 
Emenadia biguttata (Gerst. neo Blanch.) is changed to higutidla [P biguttu- 
lata] : Gemminger, 0. H. vi. p. 123. 
Cantharid^. 
Meloides. 
M‘Nab (Ent. M. M. vii. p. 149) records Meloe decorus, Brandt, from 
England. There seems, however, some doubt as to the correct determina- 
tion of the species. 
« Smith (Pr. E. Soc. 1870, p. xxxii) makes further observations upon the 
habits of Meloe rugosus. 
Pascoe {ibid.) refers to impalement of Meloe tnaialis on spines of Cactus 
opuntia near Narbonne, not the work of Lanius. 
Megetra cancellata) Lee. neo Er., = vittata^ Lee., var. : Lee., Ann. N. H. 
ser. 4, vi. p. 404. 
Mylabrides. 
De Marseul (L’Ab. vii. 1870) commences a monograph of 
the European members of this subfamily, of which he proposes 
to describe 137 species, 28 of them being treated as new. He 
divides them into 3 groups, after the number of the joints in 
their antennae, viz. Mylabris, with 11 joints, Decatoma, with 10, 
and Coryna, with 9, — Mylabris consisting of 3 subgenera — Lydo- 
ceras (erected by the author at p. 12 for the reception of fasciata, 
Eab., on account of its subuliform antennae, as in Lydus, Latr.), 
Mylabris proper, and Ceroctis (erected by the author for 2 
AMcan and Asian species, in which the antennae, especially in 
the c? , are serrate and pectinate) . 
De Marseue, I, c., gives the following synonymy : — 31. duplicataf Klug,= 
zonata, K\., scapularis, TQ,,? =tcestuans, Kl., var. ; matthesi, Fald., = cmc^a, 
01. ; superba, Fald.,==6rm(iculata, 01, ; vicina and affinis^ \A)iC.,—silbermanniy 
Cheyr, ; suspiciosa, Rosenh., =hieracii, Graells, var. ; inconstans and 10-spilota 
G\^e\T., = varians, Gyll, ; niligena, Reiche, and maura, Ohevr. ^ = calida, Pall.; 
goudoti, Cast., & scapularis, Cheyr., = circtcmjlexa, Chevr., varr. ; angulata, Kl., 
=gilvipes, Chevr. ; wagneri, Cheyr. ,=curta, Chevr.; conjluems, Fisch.,=wmr- 
ginaia, Fisch. ; and describes the following new species : — 31. abiadenm, 
