These most interesting little fellows continued to feed and grow, and m 
began now to eat away the whole thickness of the leaflets forming their c, 
their ravages exposed their bodies to the light, and as soon as this happened 
moved oS to new habitations; this change of residence always took pla« 
night, though from the slow and deliberate pace at which they moved, it o 
hardly be called a " flitting." 
Throughout July these larvae consumed a great quantity of food, so that I 
frequently to renew my plant of Lotus, but still they hid themselves, and ] 
quiet so persistently, that I no longer wondered how it was that no one had, 
found this common species for me, even though its food-plant was known. 
After various moultings, I secured three more figures of them at inten 
and by July 31st, they had attained their full growth. At this time the larv 
nearly three-quarters of an inch in length, with the back a little arched and 
belly rather flattened, being just of the same form as when younger; the b 
very plump, and thickest in the middle segments, the segmental folds disti 
each segment also sub-divided into five portions, the broadest one in front ; 
head is somewhat heart-shaped, and flattened on the face: the colour of the'b, 
is rather more of a yellowish-green than before, the minute raised points black 
the dorsal line a darker green, and the sub-dorsal paler stripe delicately ed, 
above and below with a fine faintly darker line ; the anterior pair of tuberor 
dots just perceptible on each segment, but only with a strong lens; the spiraci 
region forming a slight ridge of paler whitish-green, the spiracles very small i 
red in colour : the head is purplish-brown as before, but with the addition of 
ochreous streak from the crown down the front of each lobe, united below 
another broad transverse streak at some distance above the mouth, and also o: 
spot of the same colour on each cheek. 
Having sent one to Mr. Hellins, I found my two remaining larvae had, early 
August, fairly left their hiding places, and were ascending the sides of the cylind 
first one and afterwards the other ; presently, having gained a footing on thegre 
leno cover at the top, they began to spin threads of silk and to pucker up the le 
into a fusiform shape; the foundation threads were very strong and thick sp 
parallel to each other, in a little transverse series at each end of the retreat • t 
larva that was on the leno first contrived to complete its hybernaculum ; but t 
other, after spinning the two bundles of parallel threads to form the two ends 
Its intended winter quarters, was unable to find the leno slack enough for puckerL 
into the reqmred shape, and began again the next day at another part, but w 
again defeated, and finally relinquished its attempt on the leno, and went belo 
amongst the plants; and some weeks aftemards I found it on the earth killed 1 
mildew ; the same fate befel the one which I sent to Mr. Hellins. 
The other slumbered safely through the winter, until early in April, 1869, 
ray of sunshine reached it, and I saw the larva coming out as though in distres 
to escape either the warmth or the strong light; whereupon I shifted the glass i 
a pot containing a violet plant, and the larva crawled down the sides till it four 
the violet leaves, and then selecting two near the bottom in a shady position i 
an hour it had spun a retreat between them as they lay horizontally one below th 
other ; but I suppose this operation exhausted its strength, for when, after wai tin 
in vain for the butterfly to appear at the proper time, I pulled the leaves asundei 
I found It had died without having become a pupa.-WM. Buckler. Emswortl 
January, 1870. 
