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Reports to various Correspondents. 
flattened. The six jointed-legs are brown and the eight pro-legs also 
brown to almost biack. Larval life seems variable, for some were 
mature four weeks after the first signs of the tunnels were noticed, 
or, Tunnelled leaf ; b, cocoon on upper surface of leaf ; c, larva ; d, pupro, dorsal and 
ventral views ; e, chalcid parasite ; b 1 , two cocoons on leaf. 
otlier3 not until five weeks. The larva can be seen in its tunnel by 
holding the leaf against the light. They fit in so closely that they 
can scarcely move towards the end of their growth. 
When mature they leave the leaf by eating their way out of tide 
