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indistinct series of dots of the same colour ; the 2nd segment 

 has a lateral blotch of brownish yellow below the spiracle ; 

 the 3rd segment has a larger and more elongated blotch, 

 ascending at its posterior extremity towards the back : these 

 two blotches and the mark on the cheek form a single oblique 

 patch when the larva is at rest; the 4th segment has a small 

 lateral spot of the same colour, and on each side beyond this 

 are seven oblique stripes on each side of the larva, the 

 seventh being longer than the rest and terminating in the 

 anal flap ; these oblique stripes are longitudinally divided, 

 the upper portion being pink, the lower white or whitish yel- 

 low ; near the inferior extremity of each stripe, and almost 

 touching it, is a pale spiracle in a black ring ; in the seventh 

 stripe the spiracle is nearly in the middle : legs pinkish j 

 claspers unicolorous, with the ventral surface tinged with 

 purple at the extremities. I am indebted to Mr. Huckett and 

 Mr. Campbell for a supply of this beautiful larva. — Edward 

 Newman. 



Description of the Larva of Aplecla advena. — Feeds by 

 night, on lettuce, Polygoimm aviculare (knot-grass), and 

 many other plants, but buries itself during the day just below 

 the surface of the earth ; when annoyed it rolls itself in a 

 ring, generally lying on its side, the legs and claspers being 

 visible ; it is full-fed on the 1st of September, and is then 

 very obese. Head porrected in crawling, glabrous, narrower 

 than the 2nd segment, into which it is partially withdrawn 

 at the will of the insect ; 2nd segment narrower than the 

 others, and having on its back a semicircular glabrous plate, 

 the convex margin of which is directed backwards : body 

 almost uniformly cylindrical; 13th segment very small; anal 

 claspers very approximate and inconspicuous. Colour of the 

 head pale semitransparent brown : dorsal surface of the body 

 very pale brown, tinged with smoky brown ; a narrow medio- 

 dorsal stripe darker brown, tinged with olive-brown, and on 

 each side of this a V-roader testaceous stripe; spiracles bright 

 sienna-brown, margined with black ; ventral surface, legs and 

 claspers very pale semitransparent olive-brown ; all the 

 colours and every part of the body have smoke-coloured 

 reticulations variously arranged ; some of these assume the 

 form of four dorsal dots on each segment, but all the colours 

 and markings are confused and obscure. I am indebted to 



