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for measuring it, when I found it to be exactly one 

 inch. 



It is a very timid larva, as, when at all disturbed, it 

 coils itself up in a moment, and so remains for an hour 

 or more. 



On the 27th of September I observed another just 

 an inch long. It had the upper lip yellowish, the 

 mouth blackish, the ocelli black; the primrose-yellow 

 subdorsal line was relieved, both above and below, by 

 a line of deeper green than the ground colour, followed 

 beneath by a soft paler line ; lower, again, the trachea 

 showed through the skin as a faintly paler fine line, 

 on which were the reddish spiracles ; all the rest as 

 before mentioned. 



By the 6th of October all had attained the length 

 of one inch and were of a very pale yellow-greenish 

 tint, with all the details of the lines as before, only 

 fainter ; the next day I found one 13^ lines in 

 length. Most of them now made very imperfect tubes 

 and seemed content to lie along the underside of a 

 leaf, the top of which they soon devoured. 



On the 10th of October one had spun itself up by 

 drawing a leaf round itself as it lay on the underside. 

 The leaf not being broad enough, the two edges did 

 not quite meet and the interstice had been well 

 covered with whitish silk, forming a complete cylin- 

 drical silk-lined hybernaculum ; other larvae seemed 

 ready to follow this example. 



On the 18th of October I noticed one larva lying 

 under a leaf which it had caused to hang down by its 

 having eaten out a portion from one side of the leaf 

 close to the midrib about an inch from the stem, and a 

 smaller wedge-shaped portion from the other side of 

 the leaf. The weight of the larva made it hang down 

 gently at an angle, and as the larva was thus lying 

 with its head downwards towards the tip of the leaf, 

 when hungry it advanced to the tip and ate it away, 

 and, having satisfied its hunger, moved backwards 

 towards the bend of the leaf. (W. B., Note Book IV, 

 196.) 



