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and bent outwards and upwards from the 4th segment, the 

 head being slightly porrected : when touched or otherwise 

 annoyed the head is tucked in a little, but the larva will not 

 readily fall from its food-plant, or relinquish the hold by its 

 claspers : if compelled to relinquish this hold it drops, hang- 

 ing by a thread. Head not notched on the crown, decidedly 

 narrower than the 2nd segment, into which it is occasionally 

 partially withdrawn : body almost uniformly cylindrical, but 

 narrowest towards the anterior extremity ; 2nd segment nar- 

 rower than the 3rd ; 3rd narrower than the 4th ; skin folded 

 transversely, but not conspicuously so ; there are no humps 

 or conspicuous warts on any part of the body, but the 13th 

 segment terminates beneath the anal flap in two very short, 

 approximate, obtusely conical points, directed backwards ; 

 each of these points emits a slender bristle, and there are 

 several other small and inconspicuous bristles on various 

 parts of the body. Colour of the head purplish brown : body 

 beautifully variegated with purple-brown and apple-green ; 

 the brown is mostly dorsal, the green mostly ventral, but not 

 entirely so ; on the 2nd and 3rd segments the brown is con- 

 fined' to an amorphous dorsal blotch ; on the 4th segment it 

 descends to the insertion of the legs ; on the 5th and 6th 

 segments it descends to the ventral surface, forming a com- 

 plete band round the body ; this band is, however, inter- 

 rupted on the back by two transversely placed luuulate green 

 marks ; on the 9th segment it appears on the dorsal surface 

 only ; on the 10th it is confined to three parallel stripes on 

 the dorsal, and a large patch on the ventral, surface ; on the 

 11th there is a medio-dorsal purple stripe, and a lateral 

 amorphous purple patch ; on the 12th and 13th the purple 

 predominates almost exclusively : legs purple-brown ; ven- 

 tral claspers green and very small ; anal claspers almost en- 

 tirely purple. It is scarcely to be supposed that this distri- 

 bution of colour obtains in every individual, but it was very 

 constant in those 1 have had the opportunity of examining. 

 On the 1st of July these larvae connected the leaves of the 

 privet together by silken threads, and underwent pupation in 

 the domicile thus formed. I am indebted to Mr. Doubleday 

 for the opportunity of describing this larva. — E. Newman. 



Description of the Larva of Tephrosia cervitiai'ia. — Rests 

 by day in a straight position on the under side of the leaves, 



