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Second stage. — Same as the first, with these exceptions: First segment bearing twelve 

 long bristles, of which four are in a row along each side of this segment, one is located 



slightly above the second bristle in each of these rows counting from behind, besides 

 a subdorsal bristle each side, situated mar the middle of this segment; segments 



three to seven each bear a transverse pair of bristles each side; the longest bristles 

 scarcely exceed the transverse diameter of the body. 



Duration of this stage, three days. 



Third stage. — Body, blood-red, the subdorsal region being the darkest, but there 

 are no definite black markings; first segment bearing fourteen bristles, six of which 

 are in a row on each side of the segment, and one is situated above the second 

 bristle in each of these rows, counting from behind; segments two and three each 

 bearing a stigmatal cluster of four bristles each side and with a single bristle in front 

 of each of these clusters; segments four to nine each bearing a stigmatal cluster of 

 four bristles each side; segment ten bears a subdorsal bristle besides the stigmatal 

 cluster of four bristles each side; segment eleven bears a subdorsal bristle and a 

 stigmatal cluster of three bristles each side; segment twelve bears a transverse row 

 of four rather short bristles; each of the clusters of bristles above described issues 

 from a large elongated tubercle the apex of which is rounded and blackish; the bris- 

 tles in these clusters are arranged one in front, another behind, and with a transverse 

 pair between them, but on the eleventh segment the anterior bristle is wanting; 

 these bristles are of unequal lengths, the transverse pair being longer than the others, 

 these but slightly exceeding one-half of the transverse diameter of the body: head 

 slightly darker than the body aud marked with a black spot on each side ; legs red, 

 the tarsi slightly blackish ; the surface of the body is thinly covered with a very short, 

 white, crinkled, woolly substance which does not entirely conceal the ground color. 



Duration of this stage, three days. 



Fourth stage— Same as the third stage, with these exceptions : Body marked each 

 side by a subdorsal black stripe which passes between two rows of low r , transversely 

 oval warts which are blackish at their apices, two warts to each segment, except on 

 the second and third segments, where only the lower wart is present, but neither 

 the warts nor the black stripes extend upon the first segment; this segment bears 

 eighteen bristles, of which seven are arranged in a row along each side of the seg- 

 ment, and one is situated above the first and second bristles in each of these rows, 

 counting from behind; the eleventh segment bears a stigmatal (luster of four 

 bristles each side; the remaining bristles are arranged as in the preceding stage. 



Duration of this stage, ten days. 



Pupa. — Orange-red, first segment marked with a medio-dorsal black spot, second 

 and third segments each with a large transverse black spot; segments six. seven 

 and eight each with a transverse black spot on its anterior end, that on the sixth 

 sometimes divided medially into two spots; surface thinly covered with a short, 

 light yellow, mostly recumbent pubescence, which converges towards the middle o( 

 the dorsum, forming a small cluster near the center of each segment; length. 4""". 



Duration of this stage, fourteen days. 



About three days before pupation takes place, the full grown larva 

 attaches itself to some object by the posterior part of the body, and in 

 pupating the old larval skin is rent from the head to the anterior end 

 of the seventh segment, and is allowed to remain, partially enveloping 

 the pupa. About ten days after pupation takes place the pupa skin is 

 rent, disclosing the included beetle, but the latter does not issue from 

 the pupa-ease until four days after this stage is reached. 



This ladybird breeds as readily iu confinement as does the \'<<l<ili« c<tr- 

 dinalti and closely resembles the latter in all of its stages. The obser- 



