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shape, and it can be made to fall apparently lifeless if the 

 annoyance be continued ; the head is then brought into con- 

 tact with the ventral claspers, which seem to embrace it, and 

 the body forms an imperfect ring : it crawls with activity 

 and with the body arched. Head small, decidedly narrower 

 than the 2nd segment, into which it can be partially with- 

 drawn : it is highly glabrous, and, when the larva is crawling, 

 is porrected almost on the same plane as the body ; it emits 

 a considerable number of very fine bristles. Body slightly 

 depressed on the back, slightly dilated on the sides, and 

 decidedly flattened on the belly ; the skin is finely shagveened 

 and transversely wrinkled, the segmental divisions being well 

 marked ; every part emits scattered hairs ; the body decreases 

 in diameter towards both extremities, the 2nd, 3rd, 12th and 

 13th segments being the narrowest. The colour of the head 

 is pale brown, with small confluent spots of a darker brown, 

 except near the mouth : the body is very much of the same 

 colours as the head, but without the glabrous surface ; the 

 dorsal area is putty-coloured, but gets gradually paler towards 

 the lateral dilatation, and is interrupted and varied by dark 

 brown, which darker colour is disposed in seven interrupted, 

 nearly equidistant, and ill-defined stripes, which gradually 

 approximate towards the posterior extremity of the body, 

 where they unite in forming an obtusely conical point just 

 within the anal flap : the median of these seven stripes is 

 interrupted at the interstices of the segments, and slightly 

 dilated near the middle of each segment ; the next on each 

 side of the median stripe is interrupted on the anterior half 

 of each segment, and dilated on the posterior half; thus 

 forming a series of blotches: the dilated portion of the dorsal 

 area is very pale, and forms an almost white side-strijie : 

 below this and forming part of the ventral area is a very dis- 

 tinct dark brown stripe on each side, and between these the 

 belly is pale, but is intersected throughout by two very indis- 

 tinct smoky stripes scarcely darker than the ground colour. 

 This larva' feeds on the capsules and seeds of Euphrasia 

 Odontites (red eyebright), and in feeding may be observed 

 gnawing a hole in the capsule, or with its head and two ante- 

 rior segments of the body immersed in the cavity, quietly 

 devouring, one by one, the seeds which it contains : the seeds 

 in each capsule are few in number, white, oblong, and adorned 



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