56 PHORODESMA BAJULARIA. 
PHORODESMA BAJULARIA. 
Plate CXV, fig. 3. 
Kees were laid by a captured female in a pill-box 
on the 23rd of June, 1864; they were large in pro- 
portion to the size of the insect, oval, brownish, finely 
reticulated ; they hatched on the 11th of July. 
Food of larva—oak. 
Larva at first brownish, mottled, hairy ; four bunches 
of green and white atoms along each subdorsal line, 
and a bunch on the anal segment, the gnawings of oak. 
Until I had ascertained, by watching a young larva 
emerge from the egg, that 1t came out naked, I could 
scarcely believe that these ornaments were not part 
of itself, as every individual was so adorned, though 
apparently only just hatched. The one of whose birth 
I was an eye-witness was immediately removed to a 
separate box, and supplied with the petal of a rose, 
from which, in a few minutes, it made up nine rosy 
‘favours,’ and fastened them one by one, with perfect 
regularity, upon its back. I then restored the rosy- 
favoured to its green-and-white-favoured companions, 
and it very soon joined them in gnawing away at the 
oak leaves, for nourishment now, having fist satisfied 
the (shall I not say ?) natural craving for dress. 
They fed on slowly till the cold weather began, when 
they fixed themselves to the under side of the oak twigs, 
in a doubled-up posture, and looked like little round 
tufts of vegetable débris. I kept them through the 
winter in an arbour open to the air, and did not lose 
one. In April I put into their flower-pot some fresh 
twigs of oak, and split some of the buds. On the 18th 
of April they began to bore round holes in the buds 
that had not been split, and to clean out the inside, 
seeming quite to despise my rough endeavours to help 
them. When they were nearly full-fed I made the 
following description of one of them, having stripped 
off the tufts on one side for the purpose: 
