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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
it usually falls, the two extremities approaching each other, 
and hence the body assumes a crescentic form. On several 
occasions I have seen the larva suspend itself by a thread, 
still retaining the crescentic form ; but when it comes in 
contact with any object on which it can rest it will imme¬ 
diately “ cut the connection.” If this object be a blade of 
grass it will settle itself in a straight position; if a book or 
cloth, or any unaccustomed object, it fixes itself by the 
claspers only, and stretches out the head and anterior 
segments in a remarkably leech-like manner. It seems to 
feed exclusively by night, and then makes large gaps in the 
grass-blade, beginning at the margin and eating its way 
towards the middle. The head is exserted, porrect, and 
slightly narrower than the 2nd segment; its length and 
breadth are nearly equal: the ocelli are ranged in two 
clusters; the anterior cluster is apparently composed of four 
ocelli, arranged in a somewhat crescentic form ; the posterior 
cluster, apparently of three ocelli, but two of these are 
scarcely distinguishable. The body is slightly fusiform, 
gradually tapering to both ends, the dorsal area convex, the 
ventral area flattened; at the juncture of these areas is a 
manifest skinfold, extending throughout the length of the 
larva; the anal flap is rounded, and extends beyond the anal 
claspers; it is fringed with soft, white hair; the segmental 
division of the dorsal area is obscure; each segment is 
transversely divided into sections; the entire dorsal area is 
dull and opaque, this character being due to minute granu¬ 
lations on the surface. The colour of the head is dull, pale, 
semipellucid green, indistinctly tinged with reddish brown, 
and having two vertical white lines on the crown, which vanish 
near the mouth, and include between them a very indistinct 
white V-shaped mark immediately above the mouth, which 
is black; the apex of the V-mark points towards the crown; 
the dorsal area of the body is dull glaucous-green, with a 
narrow medio-dorsal stripe of olive-green, which is intersected 
throughout by an extremely delicate whitish line; the medio- 
dorsal is bordered throughout by a narrow whitish stripe, 
which melts into the glaucous area, and between this and the 
lateral skinfold, but nearer the latter, is a second and similar 
narrow whitish stripe ; the skinfold itself is white ; the ventral 
surface, legs and claspers are glaucous-green. This descrip- 
