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occurred on the 18th, 19th, and 20th of the month. 

 They all fed remarkably well, making very large and 

 conspicuous blisters or mines in the leaves, from which 

 they devoured the parenchyma to a great extent, even 

 sometimes abstracting nearly the whole from a leaf; 

 towards the last they were somewhat careless in not 

 extruding all their " frass," which could be seen in a 

 long trail within some of the clear blisters, and they 

 often remained within them at night and for many 

 hours at a time, apparently asleep, when their form 

 could be readily seen through the transparent cuticle. 

 In this way they attacked quantities of leaves, but 

 just at the last, and in one instance only, a larva ate a 

 large hole quite through the entire substance of a leaf. 



Their full growth was attained from May 30th to the 

 2nd of June, and then each in turn lingered two, three, 

 or four days on the surface before entering the earth. 



From three of the pupae the perfect insects, two 

 males and a female, were bred on the 9th of July, 

 having been preceded ,a few days by an Ichneumon 

 from the fourth, which I have since learned from a 

 friend has been pronounced by Mr. Bridgman to be an 

 undescribed species of Anomalon. 



The egg of globularice is of a long-oval shape, about 

 4To" long and y^" wide, having at first a depression on 

 some part of the surface, and adhering lengthways to 

 the substance whereon laid, singly, or sometimes two 

 or three together. The shell is very finely ribbed, and 

 of a deep yellow colour, which changes a few hours 

 before hatching to a dull pinkish or to a light-brownish 

 tint, showing a deeper brown spot at one end, and by 

 that time the egg has become very plump. 



The larva, when first hatched, is of a short dumpy 

 figure, with small black and glossy retractile head, the 

 second segment bears a glossy brownish plate having 

 a broad black dotted streak tapering to a point at the 

 front, and on either side a black streak; the other 

 segments of the body are faintly tinted with greenish - 

 drab, and covered with a short fine whitish pubescence. 



