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though partaking of the character of the " elephant " larvae in the 

 increase of girth at this point, the segment was not so dilated as is 

 found in the British Eumorphid species. From this segment to 

 the Hth abdominal the larva was full and fleshy in form, and the 

 elevation, which there bore the caudal horn, was steep and emphatic. 

 The transverse skinfolds upon the segments were firmly fashioned, 

 but did not destroy the breadth and simplicity of form of the segments 

 they traversed. The horn was small, and directed backwards and 

 downwards. The prolegs were powerful nipple-shaped limbs, which 

 carried the weighty larva with ease. 



The colour of the larva was simple and delicate, though of extreme 

 beauty, being a combination of quaker-like fawn and grey liver-colour. 

 The head, which had a porcelain-like surface, was of a soft dove- 

 coloured grey, and the main colours of the body were buft" and fulvous, 

 with the rather darker portions coloured by the soft liver-grey. A 

 thin, well-defined, mediodorsal line of the liver-colour was traced 

 from the crown of the head to the posterior edge of the metathoracic 

 segment, where it terminated. At the lateral line was the boundary 

 of the grey liver-colour which covered the lateral and ventral surfaces. 

 The outline of this boundary was carried obliquely" upwards and 

 forwards to the anterior edge of each segment, after abdominal 

 segment 1, almost to the dorsal centre, thus leaving a series of broad 

 dorsal triangles, or rather pointed dome- shaped spaces, of the fawn- 

 colour. Along the centre of these, the intestinal canal suggested a 

 faintly darker mediodorsal line, particularly so at the segmental 

 junctions. The liver-colour of the lateral surface encroached most 

 freely upon the dorsal fawn-colour at abdominal segments 4 and 5, 

 consequently making the dome-like triangles smaller there than at 

 either end. On the spiracular region there was a series of blurred 

 blotches of the fawn-colour, fulvous at the base, in some cases 

 resembling in shape an inverted letter Z. There was one of these 

 blotches on each segment, but, on the thoracic segments, they were 

 fused, leaving a blurred top edging of the liver-colour, which here 

 suggested a short lateral line, as the dorsal surface of the thoracic 

 segments was of the fawn-colour. These Z-shaped blotches of fawn- 

 colour bore the spiracles, which were tall, narrow, upright ovals. 

 They were jet black in colour, with a very fine light lavender ring 

 around them, and outside this a warm buft-coloured edging, which 

 was suft'used into the ground colour. The spiracles were slightly 

 recessed from the body surface. Commencing at the posterior half of 

 the metathoracic segment, and, starting from a large ocellated spot 

 thereon, was a bright fawn-coloured lateral line, very suft'used at the 

 edges. At the second abdominal segment this lateral line became 

 wider, and was of a suft'used white, in which condition it continued 

 to the centre of the 7th abdominal, where it abruptly ceased, to be 

 almost at once continued, of a bright fawn-colour, upwards and 

 backwards to the base of the caudal horn, where it terminated in a 

 fine point. The whitish part of this lateral line was very suft'used on 

 its lowest edge, and it was strongly emphasised by a series of small 

 pure white spots, set in vertical rows, in a broken manner, upon the 

 segmental skinfolds. These spots were often encircled with a fine 

 buft" ring, and stood in colour relief against the ground tint as vividly 

 as small white porcelain beads would have done. They were arranged 



