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rated with minute white dots ; there is a narrow median 

 stripe on the back, slightly darker than the rest, but very 

 indistinct ; along each side is a very slender while stiipe 

 passing below the spiracles, but just touching them ; this is 

 bordered above by a very narrow and interrupted black 

 stripe, particularly observable between the 1st and 2nd spi- 

 racles, and having a conspicuous black dot behind the 2nd, 

 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th spiracles : the spiracles are dingy yel- 

 low, bordered with black ; legs almost colourless ; claspers 

 pale transparent green. When full fed the larvae enter the 

 earth to change to pupae ; the perfect insect appears in Sep- 

 tember. I am indebted to Mr. Wright for specimens of this 

 larva. — Edward Newman. 



Description of the Larva of AmpJiipyra pyramidea. — 

 Rests in nearly a straight position ; it does not fall from 

 its food-plant if annoyed, unless compelled to do so ; it 

 never rolls in a ring. Stout, obese, of nearly uniform width 

 througliout ; the 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments, however, are 

 rather more slender, and the 12th rises in a pyramidal form, 

 and is surmounted with a medio-dorsal horn-like point which 

 is slightly curved backwards. Colour of the head apple- 

 green ; body in some examples ap]>le-green, in others 

 glaucous-green : in all there is a narrow medio-dorsal stripe 

 extending from the head to the anal flap, and interrupted 

 only by the horndike summit of the 12th segment, which is 

 red: a lateral stripe passes along each side, just below the 

 spiracles, from the head to the extremity of the anal flap, 

 the spiracles themselves being white and surrounded b}' a 

 black ring on each side ; exactly intermediate between the 

 medio-dorsal and lateral stripe is a waved and much inter- 

 rupted stripe which originates immediately behind the head, 

 and, after pursuing its sinuous course along eleven segments, 

 ascends to the summit of the pyran)idal protuberance on the 

 12th, and again descends in a curve, vanishing in the anal 

 flap ; looking down on the summit of the pyramidal protu- 

 berance, six stripes seem to radiate from it in as many dif- 

 ferent directions : besides these stripes there are several dots 

 on every segment, excepting the 2nd ; on the 3rd and 4th 

 segments these dots are eight in number, and arranged in a 

 transverse dorsal series ; on the following segments there are 

 generally three of these dots between the medio-dorsal stripe 



