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OBSERVATIONS. 
T. Bondii . — Your readers will be 
pleased to hear that the larva of 
Tapinostola (?) Bondii has been 
discovered by Mr. H. Nicholls, to 
whom great credit is due for follow- 
ing up its history. As 1 had anti- 
cipated, it feeds on the flower stems 
of the Fcstucu ant udinaceu, a local 
coast grass which, in this country 
I believe is only found near Folk- 
stone and on the Coast of Devon. 
I feel confident that Mr. Nicholls 
has secured the right larva, because 
it is evidently such an one as would 
pertain to a species allied to the 
Leucanidce, or to the species Miami 
(?) Arcnosa, because also the imago 
is never found, but in the neighbour- 
hood of this grass, and moreover 
because I had, in 1861, collected 
“ the workings ” of what I felt sure 
was the larva of Bondii although 
I failed to secure the larva itself. 
From full fed larva; which Mr. 
Nicholls has kindly given to me, I 
draw the following description. 
Seven or eight lines in length, 
smooth, nearly cylindrical, the 
largest segments being the fourth, 
fifth, and sixth, the smallest the 
head, second and anal segments, 
claspers, four abdominal pairs and 
one anal pair, the general color is 
dirty white with a faint whiter 
median line along the dorsal region, 
i 
the second and anal segments are 
darker, inclining to pale dirty 
brown, and the head is brown, the 
spiracles appear as minute dark 
punctules, each planter surface of a 
clasper has a minute dark dot, the 
lew's are pale dirtv brown. 
I here add a few remarks respect- 
mg (he earlier stages ol the insect, 
italicising so much of its history as 
I have observed. 1 conceive that 
the eggs, which arc uj a pale yellow 
