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the latter not unlike the familiar British mistletoe, and of 
the same parasitic habits on various trees and shrubs, but 
it is not very common here. 
The general colour of the upper-side of the full-grown 
larva in the wet season is yellowish, with a double, in- 
terrupted dorsal line of dark brown. Most of the third 
segment is dark brown. An indistinct transverse dorsal 
reddish bar on each segment, each side, surrounded with 
dark brown. Below these markings uniform greenish- 
yellow, the whole body irrorated with light and dark specks, 
the whitish ones chiefly due to extremely short hairs or 
stubble. The second segment is covered with a dark brown 
shiny, chitinous shield, as is the last segment. On the 
twelfth segment are two dark brown chitinous tubulures, 
one each side, with a few hairs on the edges of the openings. 
From these tubulures the larva when irritated extrudes a 
white gland or stout filament which it vibrates rapidly 
and quickly withdraws again. The body is fringed laterally 
just above the legs with stiff white hairs.* Legs, prolegs, 
and under-side glaucous-green. Head nearly _ black. 
During the dry season the larve are very dark in general 
colouring, chiefly various shades of brown, with the wet 
season markings very obscure. 
When feeding, the Jarvee often secure two leaves slightly 
together with silk, forming a shelter but not entirely 
hiding the larve. The first lot of larve I reared, bred 
from eggs or captured between their leaf-shelters on the 
food-plants (where they occasionally seem to remain all 
day) arrived safely at full growth, ready to pupate, when 
though much distended they seemed soft and flabby, and 
burst at the lightest touch ; perhaps from the lack of ants 
to suck away superfluous juices; they all died, as I had 
kept no ants with them. But later I discovered larvae 
actually inside the nests of the ants, as well as pup, and 
thereafter kept ants with the larvee, which were successfully 
reared. They are, however, liable to a fungoid growth 
which kills many, especially in the dry season, where the 
larval stage lasts a long time and the larve feed very 
slowly. 
Apparently only one species of ant attends on the larva, 
at least in this district; small, and very dark red in colour, 
almost brown; but all three plants mentioned before swarm 
* All bristles on the larva are roughened, or minutely spined up 
the stems. 
