54 r August, 



back of the crown, tapering also from the tenth to the anal extremity, 

 the ventral and anal legs short and well beneath the body, the segments 

 very lightly and finely wrinkled towards the well cut divisions on the 

 back, the sides much dimpled : the colour of the head is reddish-fawn 

 and shining, the lobes outlined on the face with blackish-brown, defining 

 well the triangular division and the upper lip, and below this the moiith 

 itself ; the body is of a light fawn inclining to flesh colour, a narrow 

 scale-like plate, of glossy pale yellowash-fawn colour, is on the second 

 segment, with an interval of the paler skin towards the head, a similar 

 plate is on the anal flap, and a dorsal vessel of brownish-grey shows 

 faintly through the skin ; the rather small tubercular dots are fawn 

 colour, each with a short bristle, spiracles black, anterior legs pale 

 fawn colour, the ventral and anal legs with a fringe of dark brown 

 hooks. 



The pupa is three-quarters of an inch long, the head and shoulders 

 rounded off, the wing-covers wrapped close to the body, and the antennae 

 and legs enclosed in a hlunt rounded projection at their ending, a little 

 free from the hodi/, from thence the abdominal rings are deeply cut and 

 taper gradually to the tip, furnished with two small spines ; its colour 

 is dark red-brown until about a week or so before the emergence of 

 the moth, when by degrees paler patches of yellowish-brown appear 

 on the wing-covers ; the smooth abdominal divisions are dull, but all 

 the rest of the surface glossy, although the other parts of the abdomen 

 and thorax are finely punctate. 



I have to revert now to that only larva, which, whether by mistake 

 or not, ate its way into a seed capsule, whose appearance in the second 

 stage of its larval life, is described in the foregoing. When about to 

 open the capsule I expected to find the larva dead, as the little heap of 

 minute whitish frass made on its first entering had not been accumu- 

 lating and still remained blocking the small hole, and was hard and 

 dry. But the larva, greatly to my surprise, was alive, had moulted 

 once, had grown and prepared for a second moult, while the unripe 

 seeds were nearly all devoured and converted into frass, perfectly 

 black. On carefully exposing the larva to take note of its altered 

 condition, work of only a few minutes, yet, in that short time, it 

 became more and more languid, as I judged from the exposure to air, 

 and I hastened to place it inside a fresh calyx with seed capsule, for- 

 getting at the moment it was unable to use its mandibles, from the 

 head having been too far drawn back from the head-piece in front, in 

 anticipation of moulting, but it soon became inert, and died. 



Looking back at the results of my experiment with the eggs of 



