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necting yellow mark in each instance, with the lateral wart above. 

 These warts were not found on the thoracic segments. Below this 

 ran a subspiracular line of warts, rounder in form, from the pro- 

 thorax to the anal segment, and again below them a line of minute 

 warts, so that, on the thoracic segments, there were now four warts on 

 each side of the dorsal line, the subdorsal ones on the prothorax being 

 still united to form the semicircular, prothoracic plate, and, on the 

 abdominal segments, to the 8th, there were five warts on each side, 

 the anal segment only shoAving the subdorsal and spiracular examples. 

 All these warts stood under each other on their respective segments, 

 making a series of rings around the larva, which were striped longi- 

 tudinally by the yellow dorsal line and the lateral line of markings of 

 the same colour. The warts carried stiff, diverging, tufts of dark hair, 

 those on the anal segment being the longest and most directed back- 

 ward. On this segment, also, was a black anal plate. The legs and 

 elaspers were black. On October 30th the larva was rather over lin. 

 long, and was now slaty-grey m the ground colour, with a distinct yellow 

 dorsal line. The head was of a bright horn-colour, with dark brown 

 lunules and jaws, and very shiny. The row of large, dark, subdorsal 

 warts was very emphatic, but there was no connecting line between 

 them now on the prothoracic segment. Each still possessed the 

 minute dark dot above it, resting on the yellow dorsal line. Under- 

 neath the subdorsal warts was a row of light steel-grey markings, 

 which commenced on the 1st abdominal segment and finished at the 

 8th. Below this line of markings was a lateral roM of dark warts 

 from the prothoracic to the 8th abdominal segment, and, from the 

 1st abdominal to the 8th, below these, was a line of yellow markings. 

 Then occurred the spiracular line of dark warts from the prothoracic 

 to the anal segment, and below these the subspiracular line of warts, 

 having, on each segment, a minute wart beneath, the only warts on the 

 anal segment, however, being the subdorsal and spiracular. All the warts 

 carried the tufts of dark shiny hair, which was now longer, in proportion 

 to the size of the larva, than hitherto. The anal plate was grey and 

 shiny, the legs black, and the elaspers slaty, dotted with black. By 

 November 7th, the larva, ^in. long, was smoky-grey in colour, with a 

 strongly declared orange-yellow dorsal line, the yellow colour com- 

 mencing on the mesothoracic segment and extending to the anal flap. 

 This dorsal line was paler at the segmental incisions, and was not 

 yellow on the prothoracic segment, but smoky-grey in colour. The 

 line was also more extended in width on the centre of the segments, 

 where the orange-yellow colour was strongest. The line of subdorsal 

 dark warts was prominent, and, on the abdominal segments, each was 

 surmounted by the smaller dark wart abvitting on the dorsal line. 

 These were wanting on the thoracic and anal segments. Below each 

 subdorsal wart was a light grey marking, having, by its .side, at the 

 segmental division, a slighter and smaller repetition of itself. Below 

 this grey marking was an elongated black wart, set rather obliquely 

 upwards to the anterior direction. Adjoining this was a large yellow- 

 orange blotch of the same colour as the dorsal stripe. This was again 

 marked with another dark wart below, just above and slightly in front 

 of which was the spiracle. The spiracle was light yellowish-white, set 

 in a black ring. Below this last dark wart was situated another, and 

 lastly, below this, almost on the ventral siirface, another smaller one. 



