LARENTID.-E-P/nnAI.ArTER ) 'A'. i^i 



five cliamond-shaped marks, whitish, but bordered with dusky 

 or blackish outlines, aud with the dorsal line appearing in the 

 centre of each as an elongated black spot ; the centre of the 

 back after the middle of segment 10 becomes much paler, 

 with faint blackish A's instead of diamonds, and the sub- 

 dorsal lines grow indistinct ; just above the spiracles is a 

 dark line, continuous on segments 2 to 5 and 10 to 13, 

 but showing only as fine black dashes at the intermediate 

 folds ; spiracles small and obscure but ringed with black, and 

 placed on ground slightly paler than the rest of the body ; 

 raised dots whitish-grey ; segmental divisions slightly red ; 

 under surface pinkish-grey, paler down the middle, and 

 having a central and two subspiracular tine dusky lines ; the 

 ventral prolegs have a dark streak and the anal pair a light 

 streak down them. 



Or — Having the same markings but the ground colour 

 wholly pinkish-grey, or grey. 



<Jr — Light yellowish-green with little noticeable mark- 

 ing, though it is generally possible to trace, faintly, the 

 dorsal and subdorsal lines, while the dark dashes above the 

 spiracles become firm aud distinct. 



Or — With the typical ground colour aud markings on the 

 front and hinder segments, but with the first half of each 

 diamond-bearing segment coloured soft dull pink, so that 

 from above the larva appears to be banded with green aud 

 pink ; the diamonds pinkish-white ; the undersurface 

 greenish. 



There are many other varieties ; one is dull green with a 

 purplish bloom ; another dull pinkish-brown on the back, all 

 the lines showing light red at the folds ; a third greenish- 

 grey, but the markings and lines scarcely showing except by 

 similar red traces at the folds ; and one, much more striking 

 in appearance, pale brown, the diamonds bordered by darker 

 brown tinged with olive, the edgings of the subdorsal stripe 

 distinct and wavy, and bearing some small black dashes on its 

 underside at the end of each segment, the black dashes above 



