12 DIANTH.ECIA BARRETTII. 



shows faintly through the skin ; the rather small 

 tubercular dots are fawn colour, each with a short 

 bristle, spiracles black, anterior legs pale fawn colour, 

 the ventral and anal legs with a fringe of dark brown 

 hooks. 



The pupa is three-quarters of an inch long, the head 

 and shoulders rounded off, the wing-covers wrapped 

 close to the body, and the antennae and legs enclosed 

 in a blunt rounded projection at their ending, a little 

 free from the body; from thence the abdominal rings are 

 deeply cut and taper gradually to the tip, furnished 

 with two small spines. Its colour is dark red-brown 

 until about a week or so before the emergence of the 

 moth, when by degrees paler patches of yellowish- 

 brown appear on the wing-covers ; the smooth abdo- 

 minal divisions are dull, but all the rest of the surface 

 is glossy, although the other parts of the abdomen and 

 thorax are finely punctate. 



I have to revert now to that only larva which, 

 whether by mistake or not, ate its way into a seed- 

 capsule, whose appearance in the second stage of 

 its larval life is described in the foregoing. When 

 about to open the capsule I expected to find the larva 

 dead, as the little heap of minute whitish frass made 

 on its first entering had not been accumulating and 

 stili remained blocking the small hole* and was hard 

 and dry. But the larva, greatly to my surprise, was 

 alive, had moulted once, had grown and prepared for 

 a second moult, while the unripe seeds were nearly all 

 devoured and converted into frass, perfectly black. 

 On carefully exposing the larva to take note of its 

 altered condition, work of only a few minutes, yet 

 in that short time it became more and more languid, 

 as I judged from the exposure to air, and I hastened 

 to place it inside a fresh calyx with seed capsule, 

 forgetting at the moment that it was unable to use its 

 mandibles, from the head having been too far drawn 

 back from the head-piece in front, in anticipation of 

 moulting; but it soon became inert, and died- 



