Caterpillar (not full grown) and chrysalis.
FIG. 72.—GOAT MOTH, COSSUS LIGNIPERDA.
September 16, 1900.
I am very much obliged to you for all the trouble you have kindly taken in identifying the Bruchi for me, but on running the matter up there does not seem to be the least reason to suppose that these creatures had more to do with the barley than that they had strayed into it from beans, of which I find on special inquiry that the steamer carried also a consignment “in the same hold.” I wrote to the importers (or rather my applicants wrote to them on my part) and I received a small consignment of the very identical beans from them (from Hull), and most of these I now enclose to you, as I thought you might care to see if anything of interest would develop. The specimens in the little bottle, including one or two hymenopterous parasites, are also from the beans.
In a little box with the beans is a fine specimen of the Goat moth, Cossus ligniperda, larva, which is very diligently spinning.[[87]] I have been much interested in watching the way it thickens its beginning of lacework web. I believe (unless the top specimen has eaten it!) that there is another larva at the bottom.
3, Bruchus brachialis. 1, Bruchus tristis. 2, Bruchus rufipes.
