880 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
the foot-stalk it crawls to the top of another pod, which 
it serves in a precisely similar manner; thus every pod is 
robbed of half its seeds, and the other half is left to arrive at 
maturity as best it may. When full grown the larva rests 
in a straight position, with the head porrected on the same 
plane as the body; when annoyed it falls, in a seemingly 
inanimate condition, bending the head rather downwards, 
but makes no attempt to assume the ring form; the head is 
very slightly wider than the 2nd segment, and has no 
perceptible notch on the crown: the body is of uniform 
substance throughout; it is rather convex on the back, 
dilated on the sides into a manifest skinfold, and flattened on 
the belly ; the anal flap is obtuse, the anal claspers spreading 
nearly at right angles with the flap, and rather exceeding it 
in length. The colour of the head is gray-green, irrorated 
with dark purple (almost black) dots: in some of my larvee 
these are associated in four groups, two on each cheek; in 
others they form but one group on each cheek; and in some 
instances they are scattered, apparently without arrangement, 
over the head; the ocelli, five in number, are black, and are 
situated near the bulbous base of the antennal papille, the 
papilla itself being transparent and colourless: the prevailing 
tint of the body is pale smoky bottle-green: there is a com- 
pound medio-dorsal stripe, consisting of seven divisions; 
the outer of each on each side is much lighter than the 
others, the tint of which is alternately lighter and darker, but 
none are very distinct; the skinfold is white, or nearly so, 
and is dilated into a whitish patch on each side of each 
segment; in the centre of this patch is the brown spiracle: 
the dark and light tints alternate transversely, as well as 
longitudinally, so that the body seems indistinctly annulated 
with bottle-green and pale gray-green; the ventral claspers 
are pale smoke-colour, just perceptibly tinged with green; 
the anal claspers are of the same colour, with three indistinct 
darker lines extended to the feet: the belly is almost white, 
with two indistinct darker stripes extending from the legs to the 
claspers ; between the legs and between the claspers the belly 
is green. My specimens were full fed, and went under-ground, 
on the 28rd of July; examined on the 28th I found they had 
buried themselves to the depth of two inches, as far as the vessel 
in which they were confined would allow, and had become 
