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truncum ipsum et corticem habitant. Totara per sestatem et Initio 
auctumni in corticis arborum fissuris ambulantes adscendunt et 
descendant ut victum quserant idque pr^cipue quod Stern obser- 
vavit hora meridiana c^eloque sereno.^^ In this state they are very 
pugnacious, destroying and devouring each other, but appearing to 
prefer the Diptera for food on account of the greater softness of 
their bodies. The following observations on the reproduction of 
the limbs in these insects are of great interest, as the genus from the 
subquiescent state of the pupae may be deemed to hold an inter¬ 
mediate station between the insects which undergo an incomplete 
and a complete metamorphoses— no instance^ so far as I am yet amre^ 
having hitherto been observed in which insects having a complete meta- 
morphosis have been found to possess the power of reproducing their 
limbs. 
“ Interdum in exuviis corporis laesae partes restituuntur sic larvam 
cujus pes anterior et antenna morsu alius larvm in una eademque 
arcula asservatae articulo ultimo spoliata erant, ante ultimas exuvias 
has partes recipere vidi, Lseslones vero post ultimas exuvias pr^- 
sertim graves, et qum breve tempus ante evolutionem in nympham 
accipiuntur plerumque mortiferae sunt et unicum tantum animad- 
verti casum in quo larva licet amissa post ultimas exuvias dimidia 
antenna in nympha et imaginis statum transiit sed antenna ilia hsa 
dimidiata permansit et in nympha et in imagined p. 49. These larvae 
both for hybernation and pupation ^‘in arborum cortice cavaovata 
erodunt—Procul dubio hac re in errorem indutus est Waterhouse 
(Trans. Ent. Soc, vi. p. 1.), larvam xylophagaiu esse opinatus est 
scobes ligni cohmrentes vel conglutinatas pro excrementis habens 
qu 0 e vero quod satis expertus sum, speciem habent granularum 
minutarum forma oblonga colore nigro.’’ 
Adopting my family iMantispid^ as distinct from Rhaphididser 
the author gives the following distribution of the two groups :— 
Fam. Rhaphideodka, prostcrno 
postico, pedibus omnibus homo- 
nomis, &c. 
Fam. Mantispiodea, pro- 
sterno antico, pedibus anterioribus 
raptoriis, &c. 
Capite obovato, ocellis 3, prosterno triaugulari alarum 
costis (pilosis), radialibus cubitalibusque in ramulos^ 
dichotomos exeuntes. 
Gen. Rhaphtdiai Linn, 
Capito quadrate, ocellis o, prosterno libero elongato, 
alarum ramulo unico radiali in furcaui exeunte pedibus 
abbreviatis. 
Sub-Gen. Iiiocellia^ Mibi. 
Mantispa cr«s5icomi5, Schum, 
Ocellis o, &c., Gen. Mantispa, 
Vertice ocellis instructo, &c., 
Sub-Gen. Anisoptera, Mihi; 
seu Mantispa no/Afl, Erichs. ^ 
