338 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
ease, and was found to be reticulated or pitted, with exces- 
sively fine partition-walls between the pits; the interior of 
the empty egg-shell is lined with a glittering substance like 
tinfoil. Mr. Wellman supplied the young larve, with this 
year’s tender shoots of holly, from his garden, on the soft 
leaves of which they immediately began to feed, settling 
themselves on the under side of the leaves. They moulted for 
the first time on the 2nd of June, and the second time on the 
12th, and on the 20th appeared to be full grown and 
preparing to enter the pupa state, the leaves being still 
soft and succulent, and exhibiting the operations of the 
larve by small round holes, like shot-holes, on the disk : 
I observed no instance in which they had eaten the margin. 
When full fed these larve rest on the young leaves of the 
holly in a flat position, with the ventral surface appressed to 
the polished surface of the leaf, and the head, legs and 
claspers entirely concealed: if annoyed it falls to the ground, 
and lies for a few seconds with both extremities slightly 
incurved; the head is almost globular, but slightly produced 
towards the mouth; it is very small, not being more than 
one-third as wide as the second segment, and entirely 
retractile within that segment at the pleasure of the larva: 
the body is of the shape of a Chiton; the divisions of the 
segments are decidedly marked; the second segment has the 
anterior margin semicircular and projecting over the head; 
the posterior margin of the fourth and each following 
segment slightly projects over the next following segment ; 
there is a slight medio-dorsal depression on all these 
segments, so that the back appears to have a double series 
of approximate humps, two on each segment, from the third 
to the tenth inclusive ; the lateral margin of all the segments 
dilated; the entire dorsal surface is finely shagreened or 
sprinkled with approximate yellow glandular dots; in this 
respect the skin having the appearance of the glandular 
surface of the twigs or leaves of many plants, and being 
clothed with pale hairs. The head is black and _ highly 
glabrous; the body apple-green, with very oblique: lines 
on each side of a darker green; these oblique lines are very 
indistinct: on the tenth segment is a diffused red spot, also 
indistinct; the ventral surface and claspers are apple-green ; 
the legs are almost colourless and semi-transparent, It will 
