106 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
1908 :—There are now visible two young larve very nearly full- 
srown in their first instar. There may be others present, but 
unfortunately various rosettes of the plant have died or are 
dying, and it is feared the larve on these have strayed away or 
have died. The plants have been nearly cleared of aphides, but 
it is not certain that these were the cause of their unhealthy 
state. The larve still thrust their heads into the fleshy interior 
of the leaves, mining out the tissue and leaving the upper and 
lower cuticles as colourless pellicles. The larve are nearly 
2mm.in length, and are pale reddish, with the dorsal crest- 
hairs black; they are very evident when on a green leaf, but 
match very closely the reddish dead leaves below the growing 
rosette. Their ground colour is compounded of a pale, almost 
yellowish, ground colour and dark reddish-brown markings. 
The dorsal line is broadly red (brown), the lateral line pale. 
Above the lateral line is a dark band, then a pale one slightly 
echelonned, as bounding below, the next dark line, consisting of 
the oblique lateral lines sloping downwards and backwards. 
Between these and the dorsal band is a pale area, widest at the 
posterior margin of each segment, and having a dark central 
spot. Beneath the lateral line is a darker shade (paler than the 
dark of upper surface), and then the pale ventral area. 
NOTE ON THE PUPATING LARVA OF ATTACUS 
EDWARDSII. 
By J. Henry Watson. 
In a batch of cocoons sent me from Calcutta, and despatched 
thence on February 5th, was one cocoon that had a dull sound 
on shaking it, as if the moth had become ready to emerge. I 
opened the cocoon to see, and was very surprised to find that 
the larva had never shed its skin, and had not advanced in its 
pupation (after completing its cocoon) more than about five 
days—that is to say, it had become dormant, and in this state 
had travelled to England. At the time of writing it has been 
at least a month in cocoon. The head, which is opaque and 
yellow, is still retractable within the first thoracic segment, and 
has the jaws, spinerette, and palpi quite and freely movable ; 
but the antenne are withdrawn apparently from the larval 
antenna cases. The true legs are movable about as much as 
an ordinary larva is during moulting, and they have not been 
as yet withdrawn from the larval shell. Whilst holding it on 
the palm of my hand it made very free movements of the head 
and thoracic segments, stretching them out, and making by the 
rhythmic contraction of its body a vain attempt to walk; the 
