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like Coontie, and lilies of all kinds. Mamma lost all her longifolium 
lilies in one night, and they ate her Sago Palm clear down into the 
ground, fairly hollowed out the bulb.” Iwas told that the eggs were 
generally laid upon Coontie, (Zamzu integrifolia, one of the Cycad.cee), 
often called Sago Palm; but I never once found them upon this plant. 
Nearly all I saw, and they were very many, were on the Dwarf palmetto. 
They were laid in patches of from one hundred and fifty to two hundred 
eggs, arranged in regular and symmetrical rows, very close together. 
They were nearly globular in form, though flattened at base, cream 
white or palest yellow in color, passing day by day into amber, orange 
and red, and becoming at last dark lead color, almost black before hatch- 
ing. This took place on the tenth day. The young larve fed freely on 
lettuce, eating enormously. Once, having exhausted their foodsupply 
they devoured a large piece of the muslin which covered their jar, and’ 
this not to make an aperture through which they might escape, but for 
food, as not one ran away. On another occasion when the larder was 
low, some of them made a raid upon some specimens on my drying 
boards, and ate the wings of several small moths. When shaken from 
their perch they always spun a thread by which to hang. Being quite 
inexperienced in the examination and description of larvae I made but 
few notes, and these are quite incomplete. I was also travelling from 
place to place during the growth of the caterpillars, and lost many of 
them in transportation. 
But I sent some eggs, on the day they weye laid, to Prof. Packard. 
These reached him safely on the eve of his departure for Europe, and 
he placed them in the hands of Mr. Joseph Bridgham for delineation. 
Mr. Bridgham writes me that he has drawn them, much enlarged, in all 
stages, so that their history will be beautifully preserved. I also gave 
two full-grown larve, of the five 1 brought home, to Mr. Henry Edwards, 
who described them fully and technically, as I was unable to do. The 
larvae, when first hatched, were very pale yellow, head shining black, 
dorsal shield very prominent, black and shining, each segment bore a 
transverse row of tubercles from each of which sprang a single long hair, 
those on the back being black, those on sides white. Mr. Bridgham 
writes: ‘* The tubercles did not change in position during any moulting, 
but changed much in regard to size. The long hairs, at first single and 
double from the various tubercles, soon gave place to shorter and more 
numerous ones. ‘The dorsal shield on first segment diminished in size. 
at each change and the color of head and face also changed. I have 
mounted a few of the hairs for examination under the microscope, as 
they seem barbed peculiarly. 
The following is Mr. Edwards’ description of adult larva. 
