THE CO CCINE LLA SEP TEMP UNCTA TA 
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spotted with brilliant black. The larva destroys the foliage, 
and eats the cellular tissue of the leaves, but does not touch the 
nervures, so that they look very much like lace work. When 
THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE LADY BIRD. 
( Coccinella septempunctata .) 
about to undergo its metamorphosis the larva hangs itself to a 
leaf by its tail, and after a time the skin cracks and the nymph 
may be seen underneath, but it remains thus protected until it 
is transformed into the beetle. 
The nymph is represented hanging from a leaf, the larvae 
