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torial lilies showing through the shells. By 3 p.m. 

 the same day fourteen were hatched and most of the 

 other shells chipped. 



The newly-hatched larva was very pale, just lightly 

 tinged with greenish- drab, and with a shining brown 

 head, and with rather long blackish hairs on the body. 

 After a moult the larva became rather more tinged 

 with warmish yellow-drab, and showed an internal grey- 

 ish spot towards the hinder two or three segments. 

 After another moult it continued much of the same 

 colour. After the third moult it was half an inch long, 

 and the back was broadly marked its full width with 

 deeper drab, less transparent than the rest of the body, 

 and edged on either side with darker drab, and this 

 again below with whitish ; there was a dorsal line of 

 whitish ; the rest of the body and head as before ; 

 tubercular dots whitish, hairs dusky. 



Directly after the fourth moult (August 19th) it was 

 five-eighths of an inch long, and stout in proportion ; 

 head yellowish-drab and shining, second segment 

 similar with the front margin paler ; the rest of the 

 body greyish- drab, darker on the back, and broadly 

 edged with dark grey drab on either side, and again 

 close beneath with greyish -white in a ragged manner 

 of long, wedge-shaped marks united, the narrow apex 

 of one joining to the broad base at the inner edge of 

 the other on the segment before it ; the raised tubercles 

 round and warty, bearing fascicles of radiating hairs 

 of black and of greyish ; a dorsal line of greyish- white 

 or of whitish-greyish-yellowish, was outlined or edged 

 with darkish drab ; spiracles whitish. 



After the fifth moult on August 27th, it was in its 

 adult dress of dark olive-greyish-brown on the back 

 without gloss, and edged with darker brown next the 

 cream-white spiracular stripe, the whitish spiracles 

 close beneath it ; the belly similar in colour and of 

 kid-glove texture as the back, but rather less dark ; 

 the wart-like, round tubercles the same, all thickly 

 studded with radiating darkish brown glossy hairs. 



