76 [September, 



it posBessed of tLis colour, had the first or broad ring of each segment 

 of a black ground colour, and the narrow I'ings of a bronzy-green, tho 

 wedge shapes of red in the sub-dorsal region extended along each seg- 

 ment from their greatest breadth at the last ring to the blunt apex 

 close to the broad front ring ; the dots of yellow above and whitish 

 below, and the double series of large spots were as described above ; 

 all the rings suddenly interrupted by the inflated and rather tortuous 

 broad sub-spiracular region coloured red ; below this on each segment 

 came a pear-shaped patch of bronzy-green dotted with white, all the 

 rest of the belly and legs were red, but inclining at the segmental 

 divisions to deep ochreous or greenish-ochreous, as the above-mentioned 

 red wedge marks did in the same j^lace ; a few yellow dots were 

 at the segmental divisions in the sub-spiracular region ; the black 

 plate on the second segment margined with red ; the red head and 

 dorsal stripe, &c., as in the other varieties. 



The black variety had no sub-dorsal wedge marks ; the first ring 

 in each segment with black ground, the others with greenish-black 

 ground, dotted and spotted with bright sulphur-yellow above, and 

 white below ; very little of the sub-spiracular region was inflated, and 

 was coloured crimson-red and ochreous, the red in the middle blending 

 gently with the ochreous at each segmental division ; the anterior 

 edge of the second segment yellow, a large round black spot on the 

 top of each lobe of the crimson head, the anterior half of the anal legs 

 black, the rest crimson, the same coloured dorsal stripe quite narrow, 

 and the anal flap black margined with crimson. 



I must not now omit to mention a handsome variety of this larva, 

 brought home in spirits from Cairo by Mr. Jenner Eust, which I 

 thankfully received in May, 1871, through my friend Mr. Ilellins, 

 and figured ; this had the broad ring on each segment black, the 

 ground colour on the others of the deepest blackish-olive; the head, 

 the plate on the second segment, the dorsal stripe, the legs, anal 

 flap and caudal horn blood-red ; the double series of large spots 

 creamy-whitish; the upper rows of small dots pale yellow, the 

 lower rows white; the sub-dorsal truncated-wedge shapes of deep 

 ochreous, and largely developed ; the inflated sub-spiracular region, 

 belly, and ventral legs, of deep ochreous or buff colour ; a pear-shaped 

 blotch of dark olive dotted with white situated below the sub-spiracular 

 region on each segment ; the ventral legs ti^jped with red, anterior 

 legs red. 



• The cocoons were of a very firm texture, s\nin with strong and 

 coarse silk threads attached to some leaves of spurge above, aJid with 



