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and proiegs, shining black ; usual raised spots black, edged 

 with white, spiracles indistinctly white ; undersurface pale 

 green. In the darker varieties the incisions of the segments 

 are often pale yellow. (C. Fenn.) A very variable larva. 

 Buckler figures it of various shades of green and purple, 

 with broad and distinct, or narrow and faint, dorsal and 

 subdorsal white lines, and the spiracular stripe light green, 

 yellow, or orange. I was myself deceived, and much dis- 

 appointed, at rearing this species from a larva of a bright 

 semi-transparent rose-pink, with a broad yellowish-pink 

 spiracular stripe expanding on each segment and contracting 

 at the incisions so as almost to form a series of loops enclos- 

 ing the spiracles, the head pale yellow-brown, shining and 

 freckled with grey, which I found feeding upon the petals 

 of wild rose. The Rev. H. H. Crewe says — " This larva 

 appears more than any other to delude and annoy the 

 collector ; the protean variety of its colours beats all descrip- 

 tion. I found a variety this year and last, which was pale 

 green with a very pretty orange and red spiracular stripe. 

 I thought I had got something good, and was most horribly 

 disgusted when I discovered my mistake ! In addition to 

 its other troublesome qualities this wretched larva is a 

 cannibal." 



April to June on oak, sallow, hazel, hawthorn, and rose ; 

 drawing together two leaves and fastening them with silk, 

 lying in the habitation so formed during the day, feeding 

 mainly at night. 



Pupa short and thick ; the limb-cases visible as very 

 narrow ridges, the thoracic portion being particularly com- 

 pact ; the covers of the head, limbs, wings, and autenuge very 

 finely sculptured with minute incised cross-lines; the 

 antenna-cases broad and flattened, and slightly ridged on 

 each side; dorsal region and abdominal segments abundantly 

 sculptured with minute pits, except the hinder edge of each 

 segment, which in the dorsal region is smooth and shining. 



