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black, with an interrupted line of yellowish flat crescents 

 below them. Head reddish brown, horn on the twelfth sec- 

 ment black. When young, however, green with slender lon- 

 gitudinal yellow stripes, head dark green, spiracles dark red, 

 head and legs bright red. This description is condensed 

 from that of Buckler, and represents the jDroduce of eggs 

 received from Saxony. Larvae found in Suffolk by the Hon. 

 Mrs. Carpenter, sister to Lord Walsingham, and figured by her, 

 are much less bright in colour, the dorsal region broadly 

 light brown, with darker brown clouds on each segment, and 

 the sides mixed brown and greenish or yellowish, with head, 

 spiracles, and horn as already described, and two striking 

 black spots on the second segment ; indeed the larva appears 

 to be subject to considerable variation. 



September and October, on Pinus syhcstris (Scotch fir). 



Pupa dark red, with a short thick brown projecting sheath 

 for the tongue ; tail with three short points. Subterranean. 



This species was recorded as British by Donovan and Ha- 

 worth, and Stephens gave as localities Esher, Colney Hatch 

 Wood, and Rivelston Wood near Edinburgh. A specimen 

 still exists in the Norwich Museum Collection, formerly in 

 that of Mr. Sparshall, which was evidently believed by him to 

 be British : besides which, in 1841, Mr. Thomas Marshall, of 

 London, stated that in 1827 or 1828 he saw a living specimen 

 in Cumberland. " It was hanging in the position peculiar to 

 the family when recently escaped from the pupa state, to a 

 portion of the root of a fir-tree which protruded through the 

 projecting edge overhanging a perpendicular bank of ten or 

 twelve feet high at the side of a fir plantation on Lattrigg, a 

 low mountain near the foot of Skiddaw." After this date 

 the insect was lost sight of for many years, so that doubt was 

 thrown on the early records, and the species expunged from 

 the British list. But in 1860 a specimen was taken near 

 Komsey, Hants, and exhibited at a meeting of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of London. In 18G3 another was met with, by 

 a lady, at Hinton St. George, Somerset. In 1876 one was 



