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ment tapers suddenly and considerably ; all the legs 

 are short ; the skin is smooth and without much 

 gloss, excepting the head, the plate behind it, and one 

 on the anal tip, which are very shining; the segments 

 are tolerably well defined at the divisions, the sub- 

 divisions much more delicately; the sides are dimpled, 

 and the spiracular region is a little inflated. 



In colour it appears almost white, but in reality is 

 a very pale faintly greyish flesh-colour, with the 

 slightest dorsal line of pale greyish-brown ; the head 

 is dark brownish -red, with the mouth blackish; the 

 plate on the second segment is brownish-red in front, 

 and very dark brown at the back, and is dorsally 

 divided by a line of the pale flesh-colour of the body ; 

 the ocellated spot on the sides of the third and of the 

 twelfth segments is a ring of pale greyish-brown, with 

 the whitish ground colour in the centre ; the very 

 minute tubercular dots are pale grey-brown, and a 

 fine pointed hair of the same colour proceeds from 

 each of them ; the plate on the anal tip is of the same 

 greyish -brown tint as the anterior legs, the ventral 

 legs being tipped with dark brown hooks. 



The pupa is about three-eighths of an inch in 

 length and somewhat slender, the wing-cases long in 

 proportion; it is of a light reddish-brown colour, 

 sometimes rather dark brown, and shining; it is en- 

 closed in a whitish silken cocoon, and attached by 

 the tail to a little pad of silk ; the cocoon is spun 

 amongst gnawings and frass held together with a 

 mixture of silk of a tough consistence, and quite fill- 

 ing the mine above and below ; the head of the pupa 

 is from a quarter to half an inch from the entrance, 

 and the extent of the mine or chamber below the 

 pupa is generally about five-eighths of an inch in 

 length. 



The ichneumon case or cocoon is found in a part of 

 the excavation not far from the entrance, where it 

 seems exactly to fit the hollow in which it reposes ; it 

 is five lines long, slender and cylindrical, and rounded 



