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On the same day whilst putting this larva back on 

 the grass I saw another of exactly the same dimensions, 

 but it looked paler and as though it had quite recently 

 moulted; it was gliding at an almost imperceptible 

 pace in quest of a fresh leaf/ which it soon found, and 

 in the course of an hour or two it was domiciled, as 

 was also the larva I had laid upon a leaf after 

 figuring it. 



On the 29th of August I saw one larva 9 lines 

 long laid up waiting for a moult, partly on the edge 

 and partly on the underside of a leaf, with the head 

 downwards ; in this condition the second segment was 

 longer and larger than the third. About this time 

 several larvae showed themselves as they quickly 

 devoured their cases, first eating the lower part of the 

 leaf below their tube all but the midrib, then devouring 

 the top of the leaf above the tubular part, and lastly 

 the tube itself, until by degrees it became too short to 

 shelter them, when they deserted it and cut through 

 the midrib, which caused the tubular remains to fall 

 away, after which they glided off to select a fresh leaf 

 for the construction of another tubular abode. 



On the 1st of September the larva that had laid up 

 since the 29th of August moulted during the night, and 

 had made itself a tube. 



On the 4th of September I picked up two larvse 

 deserting the grass ; I then cut off all the remaining 

 tubes and found that I had seven or eight larvae ; two 

 only had black markings as in my earlier figure, the 

 others had moulted them away; that which I had 

 figured on the 24th of August had moulted since the 

 1st of September, and was now 10 lines long and with 

 a plain paler green head, and hinder plate of the same 

 colour as the belly, the ocelli black, and the finest 

 possible line of black at the junction of the lobes on 

 the crown. 



On the 23rd of September I observed one on the 

 stick used to prop up the grass, it was lying along the 

 stick at full length, which gave me a good opportunity 



