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 "No. 3. SNOUTED Oil CLEAR-WINGED FULGORID IMAGO.* 



July 8. Taken with pale reddish larva near thorax. Estimated age 13 or 14 days. 

 Lying lengthways. 

 Paler. Curled against thorax. 



Larva again lengthways, nearer extremity of host's alidomen. 

 9 a.m. Head raised ; moulting. 

 Skin whitening and distended. A small object, which I could scarcely 



discern for several days, now proves to be a caterpillar. 

 Head lowered, skin burst ; a little of new one showing. 

 Old skin rising. Exposed parts of new one whitening. 2 p.m., skin oil". 

 Very white. 



Abandoned host and commenced to sjiin. 

 Small larva noticed on 14th instant now darkening; it cast a skin five 



days ago, which lies under the wings and is not obtainable. 

 Preparing to moult. 

 Skin cast. 



Moulting again. 



Skin cracked underneath and raised from head. Host died, and witli 

 larva preserved in formalin. 



" The pupae possessed a good deal of the waxy matter during and after the 

 presence of the caterpillars, and one twice put forth two white wavy and delicate 

 tails, which in time fell away and adhered in fragments to the leaves in the jars. 



" I omitted to mention that I had never seeu frasx of the caterpillars, but in all 

 probability the discharges are liquid, and would at once roll off the waxy bodies of 

 the hosts. The other parasitical caterpillar, to which I have referred more than 

 once, emits only li(juid matter." — Frederick P. Dodd. 



* ZHctyophora praeferrata Dist . 

 Mr. Dodd is to be heartily congratulated on these very interesting observations. 



