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dorsal longitudinal series of three yellow dots on each side, 

 and between each series, on the posterior margin of the seg- 

 ment, a transverse median yellow spot; an oblique shade 

 passes forwards from each side of each segment, outside the 

 median yellow spot and inside the three yellow dots ; the 

 combination of each pair of these oblique shades forms a 

 V-shaped ornamentation : there are four minute white warts, 

 arranged in a quadrangle, on the back of each segment after 

 the 4th, and each wart emits a small black bristle ; the dilated 

 skinfold is of a pale but not vivid pink : the ventral is paler 

 than the dorsal area of the larva, and there is a naiTow 

 median ventral stripe still paler, but intersected by a slender 

 smoke-coloured line ; this only extends from the third pair 

 of legs to the ventral claspers : there are many minute blackish 

 warts on the ventral surface, each emitting a bristle : the 

 legs are very pale, the claspers concolorous with the body. 

 It feeds on the various species of Chenopodium (goose-foot), 

 and is full-fed early in September, when it changes to a pupa 

 on the surface of the earth, and remains in that state through- 

 out the winter, the moth appearing in the June and July fol- 

 lowing, 1 am indebted to Mr. Wellman for a most liberal 

 supply of this larva. — Edtvard Neicman. 



Description of the Larva of LitJiostege griseata. — To Mr. 

 T. Brown, of Cambridge, I am indebted for a liberal supply 

 of the eggs and caterpillars of this species, as well as for the 

 food-plants, without which 1 could not have reared them. 

 Mr. Brown having found the caterpillars in their locality 

 feeding on the seed-pods of Sisymbrium Sophia, last year 

 kindly sent me seeds (as he believed) of this mustard, in 

 order that I might be prepared for the coming season of 

 ]867; it has turned out, however, that the seeds so sent 

 were those of Erysimum cheiranthoides, but fortimately the 

 mistake did no harm ; the caterpillars hatched here from the 

 Erysimum at once, and throve on it well ; whilst those captured 

 at large on Sisymbrium Sophia, when sent to me, did not 

 make much difficulty about taking to their substitute food, 

 and lost no time in completing their full growth on it. I 

 received eggs on June 18lh and 19th; the caterpillars ap- 

 peared soon afterwards, and took about a month to feed up, 

 all being in chrysalis by August 1st. Two days after this 

 date Mr. Brown sent me some more caterpillars, just captured 



