348 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Lakva from one-half to five-eighths of an inch long; head 

 very pale straw colour, faintly tinged with green, the ocelli 

 large and intensely black ; mandibles reddish-brown ; dorsal 

 and anal plates bright green ; ground colour bright pea- 

 green ; dorsal stripe dark green, slightly brownish in front ; 

 between it and the spiracular region are two greyish-white 

 stripes on which small black tubercular spots may be seen ; 

 spiracles black ; below them is a clearer and more conspicuous 

 white stripe ; ventral surface uniformly of the same bright 

 green as the dorsal area ; at the front, and at the base of 

 each anterior leg, is an intensely black spot ; prolegs finely 

 margined with black. (G. T. Porritt = P. hcrtrami?) 



Mr. Buckler, under the head of P. dirhrodactiilus, thus 

 describes it. Moderately slender, cylindrical, tapering a 

 little from the third segment to the head, which is rather 

 rounded ; tapering also from the eleventh to thirteenth 

 segments ; the segmental divisions well defined on the back, 

 deeper on the undersurface ; head very pale brownish-yellow 

 or greyish-yellow, semi-pellucid and shining, the ocelli large 

 and black, the mouth blackish-brown ; dorsal plate of the 

 colour of the head, bearing minute blackish dots ; anal plate 

 of similar tint ; the rest of the back is either a lively green 

 or else a subdued transparent light green, with a dark olive- 

 brown pubescent dorsal line ; a naked stripe of opaque 

 whitish grey, on which minute black tubercular spots are 

 visible, follows at a short interval, and below it another thin 

 greyish stripe ; succeeded bj" a broad lateral stripe of the 

 ground colour, but so thickly covered by a minute kind of 

 bristly brown pubescence as to assume an oli\e hue, in the 

 lower edge of which are the circular brownish-red spiracles 

 ringed with black ; beneath them runs an inflated and 

 puckered stripe of opaque greyish-white, relieved below by a 

 line of the brown pubescence ; under surface and legs of the 

 green ground colour ; between each pair of the legs, at their 

 base, are two black spots ; the prolegs tipped with dark 



