PLATE \i. 



LARVAE OF SAWFLIES. 



1. Ciinbex luted, Ij. ("oiled under a Sallow-leaf. 



2. Abia fusciata, Leach. Coiled under a Snowbei'iy-leaf. 



3. l^richiocampus viminalia, Fall. 



(1 and 2 were i)ho(ogra])lietl from living speeimens on their actual 

 food-i)iants. 3 i« from the inflated skin of a larva found on Poplar 

 in the grounds of tlic Natural History Museum, S.W.) 



PLATE (!. 



I>ARVAE OF SAWFLIES. 



L Eriommpa ovala, L. On Alder, covered with a mealy white 

 secretion. 



2. Fleronidea salicis, L. On long-leaved Willow. (The colour oi 



the body is blue-green in the middle, i)ale salmon colour at 

 each end.) 



3. Nemalus {Croesus) seplerdriunuUs, L. On Birch. Tlie insect 



is rising into its "threatening attitude," and has exserted 

 its ventral "scent-glands." 



4. Lygaeonematus crassicoinis, V. On J'oplar, surrounded by its 



"stockade " of inspissated secretion formed into little whitu 

 pillars. 



5. One of the pillars ( x 40 diameters). 



