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extremity is very noticeable, so also are the two caudal liristle-; ; in 

 form, the larvae are roughly oval. Tlie eyes are ilark, and tlie 



aiitenn.r ha\'e distinct 

 long hairs nl specitic im- 

 portance. <-)n the antenna- 

 ti ve bristles occur, ut' w hich 

 that on the third ,ji:iint and 

 that on the last are the 

 1< ingest. After ti\-e days 

 the surface of the larv;e 

 liecanie keeled and more 

 i.ir li-ss striated, and more 

 cou\ex in tVirni. They 

 .showed a distinct aversion 

 to light, botli natural and 

 artificial. At tlic end of 

 ten days the larv^i- re- 

 mained stationary and the 

 skin commenced to harden. 

 Previous to this some of 

 tliem were more or less 

 covered with little grey 

 woolly granules. 



The white nest sub- 

 stance is said by Xewstead 

 to be secreted behind and 

 beneath the fenntle's bod} . 

 I'ly i\[a}' the females are 

 nurture, Ijut the nest is 

 not formed at once, and 

 according tii my nbserva- 

 tions the females do not 

 ( ' ommence e g g - 1 a }" i n g 

 until June and cimtinue 

 until duly, the larv;i- 

 hatching out ever a period 

 iif six ti.i (■ight weeks. 

 A\dien the full com],ilement of eggs is laid the fenude dies, and her 

 shrivelled body renuxins liehind at one end of the laishion, now loose 

 and irregular. 



I have ne\'er seen a male scale of this sjireies. A'ewstead (2) 

 states that it is like the typical nuile nf L(cii // in m. 



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