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fully cast off, but splitting open down the back, remains like a great coat 
enveloping the rest of the pupa; the portion of the pupa that is visible is black 
and shining. The pupa state exists for only a few days in hot weather for over a 
fortnight if the weather be cold. In August and September the beetles appear ; 
they themselves feed on the aspidiotus, and at the first sign of winter seek for a 
secure hiding place until the spring. 
The specimens which I present will give a better idea of this insect than 
any description. All the Coccinellide have a strong family likeness, this genus 
Chilocorus differs in facies from Coccinella, by the more truncate front, due to a 
more arched form of thorax. The larva as you may gather from its cast skins is 
spinous, its breadth is about that of the beetle but it is longer, tapering somewhat 
to either end. The spines are long and composed very similiar to those in the 
larva of Vanessa. They are ranged in three rows on either side, subdorsal, super- 
spiracular, and lateral, one on each segment, excepting on the first thoracic segment, 
which has two subdorsal and two lateral spines, the second thoracic two lateral 
spines, thus affording one of those instances which have been supposed to indicate 
that these segments are really formed by a coalescence of two ordinary segments. 
The lateral spine is reduced to a mere tubercle in the 12th segment, and the 
13th segment has only four tubercles. The colour of the larva is a dull brownish 
black passing into brown in the incisions of the segments and beneath. It has 
six legs and an anal proleg like other larve of the same family. 
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