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The very young larva is smooth and glossy, of a creamy-whitish colour with a 
very distinct greenish dorsal vessel showing through the skin ; at the stage more 
advanced it has deeper colouring and decided brownish stripes, as I learn from 
Mr. Sang. 
When nearly or quite full-grown the larva measures from seven-eighths to about 
an inch in length : seen sideway or en profile it tapers very much anteriorly, and 
very little behind, but when viewed from above on the back it appears to taper only 
and very abruptly from the front of the third segment to the remarkably small 
flattened and taper head, the rest of the body being of uniform moderate stoutness 
though very slightly tapering near the hinder segment ; all the segmental divisions 
are rather deep, and the subdividing wrinkles are deep on the third and fourth 
segments, slighter and more numerous on the others, and the skin much dimpled 
along the sides. It is of a pallid flesh -colour ground, having a deeper dirty flesh- 
coloured internal vessel sliding to and fro within the third, fourth, and fifth segments; 
the head is glossy, light brown, the mouth darker brown and ocelli black ; the plate 
on the second segment is pale brown with rather darker front margin ; the dorsal stripe 
is paje yellowish flesh-colour very softly defined between two broadish stripes of 
faint pinkish grey-brown, followed below by another broad stripe of the pallid flesh- 
coloured ground, and this again by a broad stripe of pinkish grey-brown, through 
which is visible the tracheal thread of dark grey whereon the black spiracles are 
situated : the rather rough anal plate is light brown, and a narrow plate also on the 
front part of the anal segment ; the dusky brown tubercular dots are most minute, 
they are, as usual with internal feeders, largest on the twelfth segment, and these can 
just be discerned (with aid of a strong lens), and that each bears a short bristle; 
the ventral surface is pale flesh-colour, the anterior legs light brown, the whole skin 
shining. When about to pupate all the stripes disappear and the skin is of a 
porcelain-white strongly contrasted with the black spiracles. 
The pupa is of a slender figure and measures five-eighths of an inch in length, 
very uniform in substance throughout, the thorax rather short and convexly rounded, 
the head sloping forward is prolonged with a slight tendency to a beak though 
rounded off at the very tip ; the wing-eovers short in proportion to the length of 
body, from the movable segments of the abdomen below them being longer than 
usual, the last three taper a little and end in a short blunt thorny projection : the 
colour is light brownisli-ochreous with a faintly darker dorsal stripe, the anal pro- 
jection dark browm and the whole surface very glossy. — William Buckler, 
Emsworth : September 10th, 1880. 
B ryophil a par . — More than twenty years ago I took a pair of a Brgophila at 
Cambridge, which at the time seemed to me to present decided points of difference 
from glandifera, but both Mr. F. Bond and the late Mr. Gh B. Crotch, who saw 
them, referred them to that species as a variety, and I submitted to their decision. 
I have taken one or two at intervals since ; but, last year, having captured ten quite 
fresh, and observing new points of difference, I sent one to Mr. Barrett, who for- 
warded it to Prof. Zeller. The latter, at first, returned it as glandifera, var. par, 
but has since (Mr. Barrett informs me) agreed with him that it constitutes a distinct 
species. I will, therefore, now proceed to give, as far as mere description can do it, 
the main points by which, I think, the two species may be differentiated : 
