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markings ; there is a pair of white and closely approximate 

 medio-dorsal stripes on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments ; and 

 the slender darker stripe which separates these is continued 

 to the anal extremity, passing through the points of five very 

 distinct white V-shaped markings, whose points are directed 

 backwards ; these V's are bordei'ed by a darker ground 

 colour, which renders them very conspicuous ; the dorsal 

 area is bordered by a very distinct white stripe, which, com- 

 mencing at the mouth, extends to the extremity of the anal 

 claspers, emits a branch into the ventral claspers, and 

 touches, but does not include, the jet-black spiracles ; the 

 ventral is paler than the dorsal area, but is thickly sprinkled 

 with yellow-brown dots, some of which form a narrow medio- 

 ventral stripe, while others form oblique lines, one on each 

 segment. About the 20lh, or from that to the end, of July, 

 these caterpillars spin together the little stems of the bed- 

 straw, close to the ground, and, forming the slightest covering, 

 they change to brown and shining pupae. I am indebted to 

 Mr. Moncreaff for a bountiful supply of these larvae. — 

 Edivard Newman. 



Description of the Larva of Pelurga comitata. It gene- 

 rally rests in a straight position, except that the posterior 

 extremity is raised and the anal claspers are not attached to 

 the food-plant, but sometimes the ventral and anal claspers 

 are both firmly attached, the legs and anterior segments held 

 clear of the food-plant, and the back arched ; when annoyed 

 it falls to the ground and lies quite motionless, bent nearly 

 double, and bent again at the ventral claspers, the following 

 segment standing out at an obtuse angle with the loop. The 

 head is narrower than the 2nd segment, the anterior margin 

 of which forms a kind of cup, receiving the head ; the face is 

 very flat, and the crown without any conspicuous notch : the 

 body is stout and has a dilated skinfold, which is deeply 

 indented at the incisions of the segments, giving the sides of 

 the larva, when viewed from above, a serrated or notched 

 outline. The colour of the face is dark smoky brown, almost 

 black, but the sides of the head and the region about the 

 mouth is paler; the entire head is rather glabrous: the colour 

 of the body is dull opaque olive-brown, with slender rivulet 

 smoke-coloured dorsal stripes, very indistinct except on tho 

 anterior segments ; on the 5th, Cth and 7tli segments is a 



