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the spots disappears, and the larva acquires a smooth 

 glossy look. 



In this, its last skin, it is a long and rather slender 

 larva, tapering but slightly, and more in front than 

 behind. The segments are plump, with the divisions 

 and the ordinary transverse wrinkle across the back 

 well marked. The head is clear shining brown, with 

 darker mouth. The plates are also shining, the 

 thoracic one a very pale brown, the anal one pale 

 ochreous. The colour is translucent white, allowing 

 the food-canal to be seen, especially in the anterior 

 segments, to which it communicates sometimes a black, 

 sometimes a purplish hue. The black dorsal vessel 

 shows at intervals. The spots, which are slightly 

 tinted with ochreous, are very large and flat, covering 

 a large part of the surface, and from their glossy 

 character give the larva the glistening appearance. 

 The hairs are dark and bristly, and the spiracles 

 round and black. 



At all ages it is a very active larva, rolling into a 

 ring and ejecting a black fluid when alarmed. 



The cocoon, made of particles of soil and gnawings, 

 is attached to the root, and in shape is a short oval 

 with blunt ends. 



The pupa has no peculiarity of form, and is pale 

 red, with yellowish wing-cases. 



The general appearance of the larva is thoroughly 

 that of a Pyralid, though it does not, especially in the 

 later stages, quite come up to my notion of what a 

 Scoparia [Eudorea] larva ought to be. The slender 

 elongate form, the glistening surface, the pale and 

 flat spots, and the habit of rolling into a ring seem 

 as much out of order as does the selection of its food- 

 plant. (John H. Wood, September, 1888; E.M.M., 

 November, 1888, XXY, 126, 127.) 



