THE REARING OF ENNOMOS Al'TUMXAEIA. 2B1 



between each, there was a white spot on the subdorsal line, those on 

 the skinfold being the most defined. Between each pair of these 

 white spots was found a pair of dark dorsal spots. The dorsal 

 decoration terminated, as heretofore, in the corrugations of the 

 skin at the anterior edge of the anal segment. The anal flap 

 was fleshy, mottled in colour, with the scalloped edge still in exist- 

 ence ; the four points of which were bearing each the stout bristle. 

 The lower formation of the anal segment was full and fleshy, with its 

 fleshy-pointed projections directed backwards and terminating with a 

 bristle also. This segment was fawn in colour. The ventral area was 

 mottled grey in colour, with a pair of dark spots on each segment 

 backward from the 3rd abdominal to the 6th. On the 1st and 2nd 

 abdominal segments there existed a chestnut median line, and on the 

 3rd a dark transverse band, formed by the suftusion of the pair of dark 

 spots, carried upwards to the lateral tubercles on the spiracular lines. 

 Between the abdominal and anal claspers the ventral'area was greenish - 

 grey in colour with a suft'used central black core. The claspers were 

 dark brown in colour with a light chestnut exterior face. The legs 

 were fawn in colour received into the body by heavy dark-coloured 

 skinfolds, and, with the claspers, were strongly ringed and spotted 

 with dark ridges and warts. The spiracular line was still a knotty 

 corrugated line of great irregularity, and was light fawn in colour. 

 The spiracles were as last mentioned— gold centred, with a dark 

 vertical tick from the base, enclosed in a brilliant fine white ring 

 which abutted on a dark sharp ring set in a copper- tinted border, 

 which was suft'used into the ground colour. The entire larva was 

 fairly well provided for its entire length, with dark setre. 



On the 29th the larva measured l^in. and was very like a twig in 

 form when at rest. The powerful lobe-shaped anal claspers firmly 

 clutched the support and were assisted in the same manner by those 

 on the 6th abdominal segment. The head was carried forward in a 

 line with the body, and always had to sustain it, the thin web line 

 from some point above. The legs on the prothoracic and mesa- 

 thoracic segments were tightly held to the ventral face of the 

 thorax, so as to remain unobservable, while those on the meta- 

 thoracic segment were larger and extended rigidly at right angles 

 with their base. The final terminations of these were bent sharply 

 at right angles at the second joint, and folded inwards across each 

 other as a man folds his arms. The projections on the dorsal surface 

 on abdominal segments 2, 5, and 8 and the lateral warts on 

 number 3 assisted the imitation of a twig effectively. The colour of 

 the head was greyish- brown, with heavy dark blotchings of the 

 ocellated and horseshoe markings, the lobes having light crowns to 

 them. The light inverted V-shaped mark below them was warmer in 

 colour than before, and now possessed two distinct upward points 

 more like a reversed W in character ; it also retained the dark bar 

 below it still. The extremities of this marking rested on the bases 

 of the lateral projections from the jaws. These were now strongly 

 developed, and consisted of a flesh-coloured base on which the 

 projection was placed, united to it by a black band. The projection 

 itself was vinous in colour, and showed two excrescences at the top- 

 one larger than the other, in addition to the bristly termination. 

 Both of these excrescences were fleshy, and furnished with a slight 



