408 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



green lint when first deposited ; the colour gradually became 

 duller, till about the twelfth day after they were deposited 

 they had become of a grayish brown. The day after this 

 change the young larvae hatched: they were pale green, with 

 olive-green subdorsal and medio-ventral lines. They fed 

 readily on clover (Trifolium) and dock (Rumex) ; of the 

 latter thej' preferred the flowers. They fed up rapidly, and 

 had attained their full growth by the middle of July, when 

 they rested, attached to their food-plant, by both legs and 

 claspers, the intervening segments forming a very slight arch, 

 I then took the following description of them. Head as wide 

 as 2nd segment, slightly notched on the crown. Body rather 

 elongate, perfectly cylindrical. Colour of head whitish gray, 

 marbled with darker. Colour of body variable. Var. 1. — 

 Light yellowish green ; a double medio-dorsal stripe and the 

 subdorsal lines being paler than the ground colour; spiracular 

 line yellow, bordered above by a reddish stripe, which is 

 delicately striated with darker, longitudinal, rivulet lines; 

 ventral surface ochreous, having eight slender longitudinal 

 reddish lines; there is (on the 5th to 8th segments) a square 

 grayish spot at the anterior interstice, situated between the 

 two medio-dorsal lines; legs and claspers ochreous; inter- 

 stices of segments, 4th to 11th, yellowish; trapezoidal dots 

 (on 5th to 10th segments) distinct, black. Var. 2. — Ground 

 colour of back pale bluish green ; rest as in var. 1, but the 

 red is not so vivid. Var. 3. — Ground colour of whole body 

 uniform reddish ochreous; dorsal, subdorsal and spiracular 

 lines indistinct, rosy; interstices of segments, 4th to 11th, 

 also tinged with rosy ; no red band above the spiracular 

 line. When full fed the larvae buried in the earth in the 

 breeding-cage and constructed loose cocoons, in which they 

 turned to small, moderately stout, pointed, reddish brown 

 pupae. The first imago emerged May 30th, 1871. — Bernard 

 Loclajer. 



Description of the Larva of Eudorea lineololis.-^Ijengih. 

 five-eighths of an inch ; colour olivaceous-green. Head 

 dark and corslet black ; suture scarcely perceptible ; seg- 

 ments constricted, wrinkled ; on 3rd and 4lh segments are 

 six dark, horn-like raised spots in a ring; afterwards the 

 spots are placed triangularly, one being on the second 

 wrinkle of each segment, a little below the first spot and the 



