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laled with black like the back. Ventral surface and claspers 

 dingy ochreous-gray. Legs ochreous-browu. Usual spots 

 black, small, each accompanied by an ochreons spot. The 

 foregoing description was taken April 28th, from larvge found 

 on bramble, the only plant on which I have found them at 

 large, although they eat almost anything in confinement. 

 They were full fed and buried at the end of April and begin- 

 ning of May, and the first imago emerged June 18th. — 

 Bernard Lockijer. 



Description of the Larva of Nociua hrunnea. — Length 1 inch 

 when at rest, 1 inch 6 lines when extended. Head small, 

 retractile. Body obese, cylindrical; the segmental divisions 

 well marked, attenuated gradually in front, the 12th segment 

 slightly elevated behind. There is a distinct lateral skinfold. 

 Head reddish brown, with two dark marks down the front, 

 approximating on the crown, and each bordered behind with 

 a pale ochreons line. Colour of body variable ; usually a 

 rather pale rosy brown, but sometimes clay-brown, orange- 

 brown, or dull olivaceous-brown. On each segment from 5th 

 to 12th there is a very indistinct darker lozenge-shaped mark, 

 its edges fading off into the ground colour, that on the 12th 

 segment being reduced to a triangle ; through this series of 

 dorsal lozenges passes the slender and interrupted and some- 

 what indistinct medio-dorsal line, which is pale, edged 

 indistinctly with brown, this edging forming a dark spot at 

 the junction of each segment; the subdorsal lines are yellow 

 and much more distinct, especially on the posterior segments, 

 and are united on the posterior edge of the 12th segment by 

 a conspicuous transverse yellow line, bordered in front with 

 dark brown ; they are dilated in the centre of each segment 

 from the 6th to the 12lh into a distinct yellow spot; each of 

 these spots is the starting-point of a short, pale yellowish, and 

 rather diffuse oblique streak, slanting backwards towards the 

 medio-dorsal line, and each of these oblique lines is bordered 

 above by a dark shade, which runs obliquely to the centre of 

 the back, and is only prevented from joining the one from the 

 opposite side of the back by the medio-dorsal line ; each pair 

 of these oblique shades thus forms a V-shaped mark, the 

 apex of which points backwards, and each V forms the 

 posterior boundary of one of the lozenge-shaped marks 

 already mentioned. These oblique shades on the 11th and 



