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extremely short (about 0"025mm. to 0-04mm.), transparent, rather 

 chibbed, and with short spicules or serrations (fig. 6), they are longer 

 posteriorly. 



One larva was sacrificed in order to obtain some portions of the 

 egg-shell, the other two took very kindly to Poa annua, and fed on it 

 apparently willingly and contentedly. They were remarkably sluggish 

 in habits, and on any disturbance readily dropped, and remained 

 motionless, somewhat contracted, but quite straight, i.e., with no 

 tendency to curl up. 



On September 29th they appeared to be full-grown in the first 

 instar, though still eating a little. They are now 5-Omm. in length, a 

 little slender for a Satyrid, but the head, ridiculously large on hatch- 

 ing, now seems of proper proportions, the thickest part of the body 

 (about 3rd or 4th abdominal segment) is about twice the diameter of 

 the head (say l-Omm.), a little less Avhen the larva is stretched out. 



The larva is longitudinally striped, Satyrid fashion, the colouring 

 consisting of numerous dots, which appear to be largely coincident 

 with the skin spicules or roughnesses. The ground colour is a greenish- 

 white, the dots of a deep chocolate-brown. There is a broad lateral 

 band almost free of dots, which has under a hand lens an appearance 

 of being smooth and porcellanous, but with higher magnification is 

 seen to be spiculated as elsewhere, it reaches up so as almost to include 

 the spiracles. 



The chocolate dots are massed or run together into a sort of laby- 

 rinthine arabesque, w-hen the colour forms apparent longitudinal bands. 

 Below the lateral line the ground colour and dots are of about equal 

 amount, giving a tolerably uniform tint. 



There is a dark dorsal line in which the ground colour is lost by 

 continuous chocolate, between this and the spiracle, the upper, larger 

 portion has a considerable sprinkling of brown, which is perhaps less 

 abundant close to the dorsal line, giving it a lighter margin, but is- 

 concentrated at a line two-thirds down it. The lower, rather smaller, 

 portion just above and including the spiracles, has a larger proportion 

 of brown than the area above it, so as to form a darker band, of which 

 the lower sixth and upper half are darkest, so as to leave a paler, but 

 still well-coloured, line or band between them. 



The hairs (i, ii, iii, iv, v) in usual places are conspicuous under 

 magnification, as small, curved, colourless and glistening, somewhat 

 clubbed and serrated rather than spiculate. On the front of prothorax are 

 two hairs on conjoined base, in line with iii. Second and 3rd thoracic 

 segments have hairs in line with i and ii, both on the 4th subsegment, 

 a third on the same subsegment rather above line of iii, and a fourth 

 at about the level of the spiracles on following segments. The ab- 

 dominal segments are divided dorsally into five subsegments, of which 

 the two anterior, rather wider ones, form one group, and the three 

 posterior another, so that they might be described as two subsegments^ 

 subdivided into respectively two and three subsidiary ones. 



The tubercles are situated, i on the 1st, ii on the 4th, and iii on the 

 2nd, lower down the subsegments, anastomose so as to defy exact 

 naming. 



The ocelli form conspicuous black marks on the head. The ocelli 

 are four on each side, a large and small one together some distance 

 from the antennae, and two not close together against the base of the 



