198 



Tall Bearded Ins 



men photographed, which perhaps was not quite full 

 o-rown. 



Flc. LII. — l.AR\'A OF Miifruliiirltia iinusla 



Fig. LIIl, from a drawing in which the specimen 

 is magnified, shows more clearly the claw-like feet and 

 the effective jaws. 







Fig. UII. — Lar\"a ov Mai ronaftua oiiustii (ma.uMiificd)! 



The larva having completed its larval development 

 leaves the rhizome and three or four inches away 

 buries itself in the ground, to pupate. Here it liecomes 

 a shiny, bright brown pupa or chrysalis about one and 

 a half inches long and half an inch in diameter, from 

 which, September or October, the mature insect, the 

 moth, emerges to beyin a new ca'cIc. 



*C(mrtcs)- nf Dr. W. V.. liritlnn. 



tCiiurtcsy nf "Gardeners' Chronicle (of America).' 



