342 Dr. T. A. Chapman’s notes on Micro-Lepidoptera 
larva are not perhaps proportionately so long, and the 
abdominal legs have shorter and thicker bases. 
The description, therefore, and figures of the larve, 
though chiefly taken from preserved specimens of the 
young larva, are not probably far out, if applied even to 
the full-grown one. 
~The larva is thick and short and fairly cylindrical, 
apart from its angular section, and tapers very little, ter- 
minating rather abruptly at either end, especially when 
sulky and with retracted head. The angular outline is 
due to eight rows of peculiar appendages, so disposed 
as to form two subdorsal rows and two lateral rows 
on either side, each double row arising from the 
angles of a raised ridge, and the intervening spaces 
being rather hollowed. The general surface is raised in 
ridges, or rather marked by sulci that are chiefly trans- 
verse in direction, but communicate with each other to 
form a network, and in places forming a beautiful rosetted 
pattern. 
The general result is a division of each segment into 
five subsegments, the balls or appendages are on the third 
of these. The fourth and fifth, in the centre of the 
dorsum, and again in the centre of space between the 
subdorsal and lateral pairs of ridges, are united into 
one by a circular area, in the centre of which is a dot or 
spot. 
This description applies to the 2nd and 3rd thoracic 
and 1st to 7th abdominal segments. The Ist thoracic 
segment has two transverse rows of ball appendages, with 
six in the first row and four in the second. 
On the 8th abdominal segment the appendages are 
similarly in two rows, but deficient in number, there 
being only eight altogether ; whilst on the 9th segment 
are only six. 
These appendages on 8 and 9 abdominal are longer, 
larger, and more club-shaped, and project backwards from 
their points of attachment; those on the other segments 
shorter and more rounded, are directed forward—those 
on the Ist thoracic are, however, similarly a little larger 
and longer than the others. 
These appendages arise from special ball-like points, 
encircled by a special area, and are globular in form, or 
in some cases nearly pyriform, with a definite neck or 
stalk ; they are dotted as though with spiculz in a rect- 
