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internal vessel is tinted with bright green, and in 

 either case the head and narrow plate are of a deep 

 bright red ; it nibbles away little holes quite through 

 the leaf at some time or other during the first twenty- 

 four hours, from either the upper or under-surface, 

 but is soon after to be found on the under-side, where 

 it has spun for itself a little web of such delicate 

 gossamer as to be hardly visible on the hazel leaf, or 

 in the flower and leaflet of the Lotas. 



After the first moult it is still slender, the head and 

 plate are dark reddish-brown, the skin of the body is 

 less translucent, though still tinged with red from the 

 interior, and now, by help of a strong lens, two rows 

 of most minute brown dots can just be discerned on 

 the back; the narrow silken somewhat tubular ham- 

 mock is extremely thin and of pale brownish colour, 

 wherein the occupant lies curled up motionless, and 

 might be very easily overlooked without arresting 

 notice as a larva. 



After the second moult it is grown but little, and 

 seems very much as before, except that the skin of 

 the body generally is more opaque and bears a faint 

 tinge of bluish-green above and a paler tint of 

 greenish-drab below ; the dark red head is followed 

 by the darker brownish-red plate, and a very small 

 dark plate appears on the anal flap ; the brown tuber- 

 cular dots are more noticeable ; it seems always at 

 rest in a close coil, either at one end or in the middle 

 of its long transparent brownish web, and if turned 

 out of its abode to examine is very timid, seldom 

 uncoils, and for a long time is afraid to move ; though 

 not detected either by Mr. Jeffrey or myself in the act 

 of feeding, yet that it feeds well, probably at night, 

 is shown by portions eaten out from leaves of hazel 

 and Lotus major, and also, as Mr. Jeffrey advised me, 

 from tender leaves of Agrimonia eapatoria, sallow, and 

 hornbeam. 



After the third moult the skin is quite opaque and 

 of a dark chocolate-brown colour above, a very dingy 



