126 LEPIDOFTERA. 



behind from the tenth ; head shining dark brown mottled 

 with darker ; the ground colour of the body varies, in 

 different examples, from pale whity-brown, to brown, lighter 

 or darker, warmer or colder ; bej'ond the thoracic segments, 

 to the ninth inclusive, there is on each segment somewhat of 

 a barrel-shaped mark of brown, thickly and strongly marked 

 on each side of the shape with dark brown ; or this may be 

 described as a bulbous flask shape, the sides of the bulb 

 thickly defined with dark brown ; a dark brown dorsal stripe 

 running continuously through all to the anal tip ; on the 

 tenth, eleventh and twelfth segments the shapes are rudi- 

 mentary : a fine dark brown subdorsal line runs by either 

 side of the dorsal shapes, and bears a thick dark brown 

 mark or blotch close to the widest part of the flask shape, 

 sometimes uniting with it, but these do not occur after the 

 ninth segment ; on the side of each segment is an oblique 

 dark brown cloudy streak downwards from the front towards 

 the spiracular region ; undersurface whitish cream-colour 

 with a grey-brown central ventral line ; each raised dot has 

 a darker brown central dot bearing a short stiif bristle. 

 Each segment is subdivided by six deep transverse wrinkles, 

 the first four wider apart than the other two ; the segmental 

 divisions are very deeply cut, the end of each segment swell- 

 ing out broader than the beginning of the next ; the surface 

 of the skin is thickly covered with granular points. (W. 

 Buckler.) 



This larva bears a curiously close resemblance to that of 

 the very different E. camj)anulata — which however feeds 

 on a closely allied plant — while it differs very much in pro- 

 portions as well as in marking from that of E. castigata, for 

 a variety of which it is sometimes mistaken. 



When full grown the attachment of the brown spot on 

 the subdorsal line to the outer curve of the side of the 

 barrel-shape, becomes (juito distinct, and there are faint 

 shades of undulating lines below, while the ridge along 

 the spiracular region becomes extremely pale. 



