NOTES ON BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



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Larva of 

 ACIDALIA MANCUNIATA, 



Knaggs. 



By William Buckler, Esq. 



{Extracted from an uvpuhUshedMS.) 



Larva about | of an inch long. 



Body rugose, with a few minute 

 short hairs. 



Tapering gradually towards the 

 head. 



Head grey-brown, with a dark 

 brown line on each lobe. 



Ground colour of the body pale 

 reddish- grey. 



Dorsal line scarcely paler, very 

 thin and enclosed by a broad 

 brown line on either side, which 

 gradually widens down to four- 

 fifths of the segments and then 

 contracts towards the segmental 

 divisions, and at the widest por- 

 tions on each side is a rather 

 large spot or blotch of blackish- 

 brown. 



Subdorsal lines grey brown, very 

 thin and double, with a blackish- 

 brown oblong blotch on them 

 about the same distance from 

 the end of each segment as those 

 on the dorsal region. 



Larva of 

 ACIDALIA SUBSERICEATA, 



Haworth. ' 

 By the Rev. H. Harpur-Crewe. 

 {Extractedfrom the Zoologist,S732,) 



Whole body rough, wrinkled, mi- 

 nutely studded with whitish tu- 

 bercular spots, and sprinkled 

 with a few short bristly hairs. 



Slender, tapers considerably to- 

 wards the head. 



Head whitish, with a central black 

 line. 



Ground colour whitish-grey, back 

 reddish. 



Central dorsal line black, very 

 slender and indistinct. 



Subdorsal line same colour (black), 

 but broader and more distinct 

 upon the capital and anal seg- 

 ments. 



1866. 



