138 LEPIDOPTERA. 



in the front segments. The head is small, and sunk in the 

 second segment ; the skin on the front and hind segments is 

 wrinkled, whilst across each of the segments from the 5th to 

 the 10th, (both included,) there runs a transverse elevated 

 ridge, which on each side of the spiracular line meets a lon- 

 gitudinal ridge, and forms with it a lateral hump. The 

 ground colour is a pale sulphur green, along the region of 

 the spiracles running into a rich pink, edged below with 

 black, which blends into a broad lateral stripe of dark olive ; 

 the belly is of the pale ground colour ; on the front segments 

 are four dorsal stripes of a full green ; the transverse dorsal 

 ridges are of a velvety olive green, softening anteriorly into 

 the pale ground colour, with a tinge of pink, and becoming 

 black at the sides. The hind segments are blackish green 

 on the back, and much suffused with pink. The spiracles 

 are pink, six of them being enclosed in the black of the 

 transverse ridges. The pupa, which is enclosed in a slight 

 earthen cocoon, is remarkably short and stout, and much 

 tinged with green. 



" From what is here said of the larva of Sagittata, it will of 

 course be seen that it does not at all follow the typical form 

 of Cidaria larvae, which is, as Stainton's Manual has it, 

 '* elongate, slender ;" in fact it is more like the larva of Pe- 

 lurga Comitata, though far excelling it in singularity of 

 form and beauty of colour ; it is indeed a very striking and 

 handsome creature, and the exquisite contrasts of its tints 

 have inspired my friend Mr. Buckler even to excel himself 

 in the magnificent figure he has taken of it. 



" The discoverer of the larva is Mr. Alfred Fryer, of 

 Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, who found it in some abundance 

 in his garden last year, and gave a portion of his captures to 

 Mr. W. Farren ; the latter at once guessed the species of 

 the then unknown, but we did not like to say anything about 



