THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XLV.l 



MAECH, 1912. 



[No. 586 



THE EARLY STAGES OF EUSTROMA RETICULATA. 

 By Frank Littlewood. 



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Fig. 1. 



Assuming Mr. Prout to be correct in his belief that my 

 observations of the early stages of Eustroma reticulata will be of 

 general interest, I have pleasure in placing the same before the 

 readers of the 'Entomologist.' 



Seeing, however, that several years have elapsed since these 

 notes were penned, and that I have found neither time nor 

 opportunity for renewing my acquaintance with the species, it 

 is necessary, perhaps, to state that the descriptions of both 

 larvae and pupae were written down in my diary at the time, for in 

 matters of this kind, where details are essentials, I have found 

 one's memory to be, generally, delusive and unreliable. So that, 

 whilst not pretending to scientific terminology, the following de- 

 scriptions may be accepted as being, so far as they go, accurate. 



Descriptions of Larvce. — The smallest larva, taken on August 

 20th, 1905, and apparently only a few days old, was 4 mm., or 

 five thirty-seconds of an inch in length. The majority, however, 



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