[459] Westwood, ‘Modern Class. of Insects,’ vol. i. p. 440.

[460] Westwood, ‘Modern Class. of Insects,’ vol. i. p. 453.

[461] Landois, ibid. s. 121, 122.

[462] Mr. Walsh also informs me that he has noticed that the female of the Platyphyllum concavum, “when captured makes a feeble grating noise by shuffling her wing-covers together.”

[463] Landois, ibid. s. 113.

[464] ‘Insects of New England,’ 1842, p. 133.

[465] Westwood, ‘Modern Classification,’ vol. i. p. 462.

[466] Westwood, ibid. vol. i. p. 453.

[467] Landois, ibid. s. 115, 116, 120, 122.

[468] ‘Transact. Ent. Soc.’ 3rd series, vol. ii. (‘Journal of Proceedings, p. 117.)