380 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



the foot-stalk it crawls to the top of another pod, which 

 it serves in a precisely similar manner; thus every pod is 

 robbed of half its seeds, and the other half is left to arrive at 

 maturity as best it may. When full grown the larva rests 

 in a straight position, with the head porrected on the same 

 plane as the body ; when annoyed it falls, in a seemingly 

 inanimate condition, bending the head rather downwards, 

 but makes no attempt to assume the ring form ; the head is 

 very slightly wider than the 2nd segment, and has no 

 perceptible notch on the crown : the body is of uniform 

 substance throughout; it is rather convex on the back, 

 dilated on the sides into a manifest skinfold, and flattened on 

 the belly ; the anal flap is obtuse, the anal claspers spreading 

 nearly at right angles with the flap, and rather exceeding it 

 in length. The colour of the head is gray-green, irrorated 

 with dark purple (almost black) dots : in some of my larvae 

 these are associated in four groups, two on each cheek ; in 

 others they form but one group on^each cheek ; and in some 

 instances they are scattered, apparently without arrangement, 

 over the head ; the ocelli, five in number, are black, and are 

 situated near the bulbous base of the antennal papillae, the 

 papilla itself being transparent and colourless : the prevailing 

 tint of the body is pale smoky bottle-green : there is a com- 

 pound medio-dorsal stripe, consisting of seven divisions; 

 the outer of each on each side is much lighter than the 

 others, the tint of which is alternately lighter and darker, but 

 none are very distinct ; the skinfold is white, or nearly so, 

 and is dilated into a whitish patch on each side of each 

 segment ; in the centre of this patch is the brown spiracle : 

 the dark and light tints alternate transversely, as well as 

 longitudinally, so that the body seems indistinctly annulated 

 with bottle-green and pale gray-green; the ventral claspers 

 are pale smoke-colour, just perceptibly tinged with green; 

 the anal claspers are of the same colour, with three indistinct 

 darker lines extended to the feet: the belly is almost white, 

 wilh two indistinct darker stripes extending from the legs to the 

 claspers ; between the legs and between the claspers the belly 

 istgrcen. My specimens were full fed, and went under-ground, 

 on the 23rd of July ; examined on the 28th 1 found they had 

 buried themselves to the depth of two inches, as far as the vessel 

 in which they were confined would allow, and had become 



