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and above the mouth, on the fissure of 

 the forehead are two longitudinal black 

 spots. The ground-colour of the body 

 is whitish-grey, but closely covered with 

 black characters and dots. The neck 

 has two folded joints, which are, like the 

 two first of the ten joints of the body, 

 furnished with little whitish globules, 

 each of which has a smaller one annexed 

 to it, and both are covered with whitish 

 hairs. 



The stripe on the back is white, its 

 edges beset with black dots, like lines. 

 The ten joints of the body have on both 

 sides of this back-stripe large globules, 

 the two first pairs of them are violet-co- 

 loured, the rest purplish-red, so that there 

 are twenty globules on the back, four 

 white, four blue, and twelve red. Be- 

 tween the eighth and ninth pairs of these 

 globules, is placed on the middle of the 

 white back-stripe, an elevated shining 

 globule. On the third and fourth joints 

 sucli globules are placed next to the white 

 back-stripe. 



When the young ones have just crept 

 out of the egg, they look quite black, and 



