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shown in the accompanying figure. During this time they crawled 

 about the nest without being molested or even noticed, and the number 

 of Coccids in the nest suffered no diminution. By May 17 they 

 had ceased to move and were huddled together preparatory to pupa- 

 tion. Whether they fasted for lack of their proper food, which prob- 

 ably consists of Coccid eggs, or because they had already attained 

 their full growth when I confined them in the nest, I am unable to 

 sav, but the latter is the more probable explanation. 



Fig. I. Seven larva; of Brachyticaiillia ^-punctata Mels. X ^.'/i. 



The aduh larva, covered with the waxy tufts, measured about 

 10 mm.; but after these had been dissolved away in chloroform, its 

 body was only 6-7 mm. long, and was of a whitish or pinkish yellow 

 color. It differed conspicuously from our common Coccinellid larvje, 

 not only in this lack of pigmentation, but also in having very much 

 shorter and feebler legs, a much smaller head, a more obese and 

 elliptical al)domcn and in lacking the eyes and the rows of robust 

 spiny processes along the sides and in the mid-dorsal region of the 

 thorax and abdomen. The intersegmental constrictions were pro- 

 nounced and each segment had a deeply im])rcssed transverse line in 

 the middle of its dorsal surface. The body was covered with deli- 

 cate flexuGus hairs, which varied in length but were conspicuously 



