. The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world : being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture . Some of the Hong Kong species are mostbeautifully marked, and so are the Ceylonese, as therare Coptocyda Balyi. Coptoeycla is a very extensive and beautiful genus,generally small and mostly from the New World. Theyretain their hues in alcohol. The larvae of the Tortoi
. The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world : being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture . Some of the Hong Kong species are mostbeautifully marked, and so are the Ceylonese, as therare Coptocyda Balyi. Coptoeycla is a very extensive and beautiful genus,generally small and mostly from the New World. Theyretain their hues in alcohol. The larvae of the Tortoise beetles shelter themselvesunder an umbrella of their own excrement, and thiscovering they can elevate or depress in such a way asto shade or shelter them more or less effect this by means of a forked instrument, whichKirby has called a ficcifurk. On this they place theexcrementitious matter. It is somelimes turned upand lies flat on the back ; sometimes it forms an acute,sometimes a blunt angle, with the body; at others, is un-bent and in the same direction with it. Figs. 136, 137,show the larva and pupa of a Cassida, copied from the Fig. 137 The cut (fig. 138) represents the larva of Hhpatcstacea, discovered by Mr. Ferris abundantly on theCistua salvifolms, a plant growing on the sandy heaps Fig. Pupa of Cassida rubiginosa. Stettin Entomological Societys journal. The excre-mentitious matter is sometimes formed into very longbranching filaments, as in the Calopepla Leayana, aspecies of the family found in India, in which this ster-coraceous parasol, as observed by the late GeneralHardwicke, much resembles a dried sea-weed or lichen. Family—HISPID^.. The larvse of these are, in some respects, related tothe wood-feeding larvK of the Longicorn beetles, whilstin habits they resemble those of the leaf-mining cater-pillars of certain moths. The late Professor T. of the United States first recorded this. Wantof space forbids me entering any further
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