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ilorsal line, which was most evident on the 1st abdominal segment at 

 the lyi'e-shaped marking, and was constructed otherwise mainly by 

 disjointed tracery, and white dots on each skinfold and each segment. 

 Again, below this, was found a badly-defined light spiracular line as 

 far as the abdominal claspers, after which it was suggested only by 

 the light setting around the spiracles on the remaining segments. 

 The spiracles now had lost their beauty, and consisted of a sunken 

 oval gold-coloured plate, with a thin black vertical line across their 

 centres, set in a raised, and brightly shining, dark rim. The ventral 

 surface was of an olive-grey ground colour, and had two interrupted 

 dark lines from the head to the abdominal claspers. These lines were 

 gradually broken through in a suffused manner, at the centre of each 

 segment, and they were most declared and positive on the skinfolds 

 between the segments, where they themselves contained a white dot. 

 Where the broken suffusion of the lines occurred, there was an isolated 

 dark dot, suggesting the continuation of the line, and another similar 

 dark dot before it commenced again. Between these dark lines, on 

 abdominal segments 1 and 2, was a reddish tint, which also was 

 suggested in the other segments in a slighter manner. On the ventral 

 surface between the two pairs of claspers, the ground colour was a 

 yellowish-grey, and it had a central line dividing it of an olive-green 

 colour, which widened out into a broad triangle between the anal 

 claspers. Each of the dark warts referred to, dorsal, lateral, and 

 ventral, carried a short black hair. The first two pairs of legs were 

 various in colour and the third pair Avas dark brown, and much 

 larger than the others. They were all strongly marked and dotted 

 Avith black, especially the third pair, and were received into the body 

 amongst heavy wrinkles and foldings of the skin, which bore many 

 minute dark warts. 



By July 5th the larva was 2^in. long, and had the appearance, in 

 colour and markings, of full development. It was now of a rich 

 umber-brown tint, with sienna-coloured, and lighter, blotchings from 

 end to end. It had all its characteristic points emphasised since the 

 last examination of it, and its resemblance to a subordinate woody 

 part of the foodplant was remarkably faithful. The head, the pro- 

 jecting pair of legs on the metathoracic segment, the ridges on the 

 dorsal, and projections on the lateral, surfaces, with the powerful 

 knotty claspers, were all in excellent imitation. Along each side ran 

 a lateral line, which was fleshy in texture and much corrugated and 

 scalloped in its course; suggesting the irregularities of young thin 

 bark. The head was now wider than the prothoracic segment on the 

 front edge of the lobe crowns, which had lost their oval form and 

 finished rather squarely and abruptly on the face. The lobes were 

 reddish-grey marked closely in broad and broken outline with ocellated 

 forms, and no longer in blotches. These outlines were strongly draw-n 

 and consisted of innumerable raised and flattened dark warts. The 

 series of eye-like forms in a semicircle on the cheeks was now very 

 conspicuous, and resembled so many eyes, even more than hitherto. 

 They were pearly white, set in black rings, with what may be called 

 black pupils, and the most posterior one had a decided inward and 

 .downward squint. The W-shaped marking on the face was now 

 bolder and more spreading, rising squarely upward, and forming a 

 light fawn border to the inside edges of the apex between the lobes. 



