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The egg was rioted as being of globular shape, with soft glistenin 

 shell, scarcely showing traces of a sort of pitting all over ; in colour 

 a very pale straw-yellow. 



The newly-hatched larva was of the regular Miana form, stoutest 

 at third segment, whitish in colour, shining, with the head black, a 

 dark plate on second segment, the usual dots very small and distinct, 

 but dark in colour. 



In captivity about the last week in October before hibernation, 

 the larva is nearly or quite five-sixteenths of an inch long, of the true 

 Miana figure, stoutest at the third and fourth segments, tapering a 

 little behind, the head smaller than the second, is flattened and wedge- 

 shaped towards the front and of reddish-brown colour, darker brown 

 at the mouth, a broad shining semi-transparent plate on the second 

 segment of the same colour as the back, which is lightish orange-brown, 

 having a dorsal line ol pale orange-ochreous with two short transverse 

 bars about the middle of each segment ; the sub-dorsal marking of the 

 same pale colour is broadish and bounded below by the light orange- 

 brown of the side, from which an upward curved streak intersects the 

 marking at the first subdividing wrinkle and two shorter curves follow 

 without much intersection ; the black spiracle at the lower edge is 

 followed by the pale orange-ochreous of the belly ; a pale shining plate 

 is on the anal segment. 



After hibernation, at the end of April, the larva is nearly half an 

 inch long, rather slender but still thickest at the thoracic segments ; 

 the design and colouring of the back and sides are much the same as 

 before, but less well defined, as the brown of the back and sides is 

 paler, and the belly has a faint watery greenish-yellow tint ; the 

 anterior legs are reddish-brown. 



When found at large in the Carex, full grown , the larva is from 

 half an inch to nearly five-eighths in length, of the same general 

 figure as above, the segmental folds well defined, the subdividing 

 wrinkles are deep on the third and fourth but moderate on other seg- 

 ments which are dimpled along the sides : the general ground-colour 

 of the body is dull ochreous with a tinge of reddish ; the back is 

 deeply tinged with dull purplish-red on the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, 

 seventh, and eighth segments ; the dorsal line so inconspicuous as only 

 just to be discerned as pulsating, the segmental folds are pale ochreous ; 

 the head is reddish-brown and shining, with dark brown mouth and 

 black ocelli, a yellow-brown shining plate on the second segment has 

 its front margin rather darker brown, the anterior legs of the same 



