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12th segments have more the character of triangular spots, 

 the bases of those on the 12th segment being seated on the 

 yellow band across that segment, and their apices pointing 

 forwards; they vary in intensity of colour. The spiracular 

 line is slender, very distinct, and yellow or ochreous on ihe 

 2nd to 4lh segments ; on the other segments it is broad, 

 diffuse, and of the ground colour, dotted with whitish, more 

 thickly at the posterior than at the anterior part of each seg- 

 ment, and thus ai)pearing alternately pale rosy brown and 

 ochreous-white; the spiracles are of the ground colour, each 

 in a delicate black ring. The ventral surface and claspers 

 are pale grayish ochreous. The legs reddish brown. The 

 usual spots are small, very indistinct and black ; the bristles 

 are whitish. The distinguishing characters of this larva 

 appear to me to be the peculiar coloration of the spiracular 

 region, and the great distinctness of the yellow band on the 

 12th segment. When young it is a very pretty larva. It 

 feeds chiefly on bramble, but also on hornbeam, and (in 

 captivity) on dock and other plants. It is full fed about the 

 second and third weeks in April, and then buries under the 

 earth and constructs a loose cocoon, in which it turns to a 

 pupa of the usual Noctua form, and reddish brown and very 

 shining. The moths emerged June 7th to 12th. — Bernard 

 Lockyer. 



Description of the Larva of Noctua jesliva. — Eggs were 

 laid by a female, taken at sugar, June 30lh to July 2nd, 1871. 

 They were pale lemon-yellow, which changed to grayish 

 before the larvae emerged, which event took place July 11th. 

 The young larvae were short, stout, and cylindrical, with but 

 three pairs of claspers developed ; they consequently looped 

 in walking. They had black heads and dull grayish bodies, 

 with the tubercular dots very distinct, black, and each 

 emitting a slender bristle. They fed on violet till hyberna- 

 tion, which took place in October, they having previously 

 undergone three changes of skin. Before hybernation they 

 had gained the use of all their claspers, and were of a ferru- 

 ginous-brown, marked with whitish, the dorsal and subdorsal 

 lines being of that colour, very distinct, and edged with dark 

 red. The spiracular lines were reddish ochreous, edged with 

 white on each side, and there was a series of dark oblique 

 streaks between the spiracular and subdorsal lines. They 



