196 THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD. 



2oidals is an orange band, between the posterior trapezoidal 

 and the spiracles is again chocolate brown, and the sub- 

 spiracular is orange yellow. These yellow bands are a pro- 

 nounced portion of a system of transverse marbled lines, 

 which, in the chocolate area, are bluish grey, and are very 

 sparse on the dorsal region, but on the lower area cover more 

 space than the chocolate brown colour, the tubercles black, 

 also the head, except two narrow brown lines on each side, 

 one bounding the clypeus and the other a little higher up. 

 Beneath, the colour is a pale chocolate, with the marblings of 

 a greyish green. Each tubercle carries several long black hairs, 

 about the diameter of the larva in length, but longer on 3, 12, 

 and 13, and more abundant, but shorter, whitish-brown ones. 

 The larva is thickest about 3 and 4, and tapers gradually back- 

 wards. The tubercles on the dorsum still give a serrated 

 aspect to the outline seen laterally, which is similar in the 

 other Viuiinia, but for some reason does not strike one so 

 distinctly as in this species. 



In the 5th skin, the larva is very similar to the 4th ; the 

 description I have taken differs somewhat in its expression, 

 and may assist in forming a picture of the larva, otherwise the 

 repetition would be redundant. The length is 21 mm. It 

 tapers slightly backwards, with a suspicion of a hump on 12. 

 A hairy blue grey larva, with blacker back and yellow subdorsal 

 line ; the post-spiracular tubercle is reduced to a hairless dot, the 

 others are all well developed, with two black hairs and many 

 (about 15) pale ones two-thirds the diameter of the larva in 

 length, and some (on 2, 3, 4, and 12) are twice as long as the 

 others — tubercles black, skin black but thickly marbled with 

 paler streaks ; in the back these are reduced to a few pale 

 dots, between the trapezoidals they coalesce into an irregular 

 orange yellow band, lower they are still numerous, of a whitish 

 blue grey, giving a general grey tone to the larva ; on the sub- 

 spiracular line they again unite in a narrow broken line of an 

 orange yellow colour round the subspiracular tubercle, and a 

 similar patch extends upwards, and includes the spiracle and 

 the post-spiracular tubercle. The pale marblings form circles 

 round the tubercles, especially the posterior trapezoidal and 

 the supra-spiracular. The head is black with white labrum 

 and palpi. 



In the last skin, the larva attains a length of from 34 to 

 40 and 45 mm., a hairy larva, marked longitudinally with 

 black, grey, orange, and yellow. It has now no riiinicis form. 



