450 LÉPIDOPTÉROLOGIE COMPARÉE 



yellow, irregularly clouded with grey. The yellow spot beneath 

 the large spot, may be présent as in hirtaria. 



The subspiracular stripe is one confused mass of black spots 

 with yellow filling in indicated; it may become more definite at 

 the beginning of a segment. The space between this and the spi- 

 racular stripe is blackish, irregularly spotted with dull yellow, 

 although in it there is a clear yellow bar at the base of the legs. 



The medio ventral stripes are somewhat weakened, but they 

 are very broad and close together and contain a creamy-yellow 

 filling in. As a conséquence of the nearness of thèse stripes, the 

 distance between them and the spiracular stripe is greater than 

 in hirtaria. 



The legs are black, with irregular pale areas, which do not 

 appear pnikish purple as in hirtaria; the claws are black. Between 

 the legs, the ground colour is palish and before each pair of legs 

 in this pale patch is a brownish triangular spot. A similar, but 

 rounder one, follows them. 



In colour, the prolegs are yellowish slightly tinged with pink, 

 and marbled with black. Ail the prolegs are shorter than in 

 hirtaria. 



The primary tubercles can be readily seen, but the hair they 

 émit is very weak. 



Variation of larvae. 



The larvae are excessively variable, for they hâve to combine 

 the suffusions inherited from hirtaria with the tendency of the 

 ground colour in grœcaria to vary to bright yellow. The resuit 

 is, that, as was pointed out above, the range of colour is great. 

 The stripes seem always inclined to become weaker and rarely, 

 if ever, are so clearly marked as in hirtaria, although in many 

 cases the Êlling is a orange as in that species. The decided 

 pattern often produced by the concentrated suffusions before 

 the yellow bars, may be quite as regular as in hirtaria. As grœ- 

 caria larva is not available for direct comparison of the minor 



