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ease, and was found to be reticulated or pitted, with exces- 

 sively fine partition-walls between the pits ; the interior of 

 the empty egg-shell is lined with a glittering substance like 

 tinfoil. Mr. Wellman supplied the young larvae, with this 

 year's tender shoots of holly, from his garden, on the soft 

 leaves of which they immediately began to feed, settling 

 themselves on the under side of the leaves. They moulted for 

 the first time on the 2nd of June, and the second time on the 

 12th, and on the 20th appeared to be full grown and 

 preparing to enter the pupa state, the leaves being still 

 soft and succulent, and exhibiting the operations of the 

 larvae by small round holes, like shot-holes, on the disk : 

 I observed no instance in which they had eaten the margin. 

 When full fed these larvae rest on the young leaves of the 

 holly in a flat position, with the ventral surface appressed to 

 the polished surface of the leaf, and the head, legs and 

 claspers entirely concealed: if annoyed it falls to the ground, 

 and lies for a few seconds with both extremities slightly 

 incurved; the head is almost globular, but slightly produced 

 towards the mouth ; it is very small, not being more than 

 one-third as wide as the second segment, and entirely 

 retractile within that segment at the pleasure of the larva : 

 the body is of the shape of a Chiton ; the divisions of the 

 segments are decidedly marked; the second segment has the 

 anterior margin semicircular and projecting over the head ; 

 the posterior margin of the fourth and each following 

 segment slightly projects over the next following segment; 

 there is a slight medio-dorsal depression on all these 

 segments, so that the back appears to have a double series 

 of approximate humps, two on each segment, from the third 

 to the tenth inclusive ; the lateral margin of all the segments 

 dilated; the entire dorsal surface is finely shagreened or 

 sprinkled with approximate yellow glandular dots ; in this 

 respect the skin having the appearance of the glandular 

 surface of the twigs or leaves of many plants, and being 

 clothed with pale hairs. The head is black and highly 

 glabrous ; the body a})ple-green, with very oblique lines 

 on «each side of a darker green ; these oblique lines are very 

 indistinct : on the tenth segment is a diffused red spot, also 

 indistinct ; the ventral surface and claspers are apple-green ; 

 the legs are almost colourless and semi-transparent. It will 



