PUPATING LARVA OF ATTACUS EDWARDSII. 107 
five pairs of abdominal legs are now quite functionless, and the 
whole of the hinder end of the body not nearly so active as the 
anterior end. I trust I shall be able to get it to pupate and 
emerge as a moth. 
The following is a description of the larva of this beautiful 
and rather rare moth, as far as can be judged by this specimen. 
It bears a great resemblance to Atlas, and I think in its earlier 
stage will be covered with white farina, as there are some slight 
indications of this in the body creases at the hinder segments. 
The whole body is a dull apple green, with faint darker patches 
or spots, exactly as found in Cynthia and Atlas. There is now 
no white farina, this being probably rubbed off. 
The head is dull yellow asin Cynthia. The sides have a 
few small scattered pale blue flat tubercles with black centres, 
and there are two rows of dorsal tubercles of a beautiful shining 
turquoise blue, half an inch or more in length, thicker at the base 
and tapering to a fine point. These tubercles bear a few scat- 
tered wart-like black dots, which each emit a fine bristle. The 
four thoracic tubercles are twice as thick as the others, more 
truncated and heavily covered with black shining warts, and 
are like the others of turquoise blue. The two tubercles onthe 
third thoracic segment are more widely separated than the 
rest, so that they stand out of the line, a little down the sides 
of the larva. The anal segment is of a drake green, with a 
carneous spot-edged turquoise on the anal pair of legs. 
It greedily drank a small drop of water, which I have often 
seen Saturnide larve do. 
I have since had a further consignment; but the box had 
been opened by Postal Authorities, cocoons tipped out and 
tumbled back again anyhow, not packed as they were before, 
the lid pressed down tight, and so crushing the cocoons that 
there are only four out of twenty unhurt (one was entirely 
missing). One which was just alive was in the dormant con- 
dition of the preceding larva, but had been crushed half flat— 
it has now died. 
Really, this wanton destruction by Postal and Customs Autho- 
rities abroad should be redressed. Some years ago I sent to 
North America via New York a corked box with a glass lid 
containing set specimens of rare hybrid Saturnide, tied with 
string and a label, asking the examiners to be careful with them. 
They cut the cord, opened the box, and placed the cord and label 
in the box amongst the moths, closed the lid and tied up the box 
with string of their own. My esteemed friend, Miss Morton, said 
it nearly broke her heart to see them utterly ruined. 
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