50 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 
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and, as we supposed at the time, correctly so, under the name of 25; but 
since probably but few of our readers will have seen that Report, and as 
the edition is sometime since exhausted, we shall reproduce the descrip- 
tion here in a fuller form :— 
Larva sparingly hairy, found feeding on plum, cherry and apple. 
Head rather long, bilobed, somewhat flat in front; black, with yel- 
lowish dots at the sides, and with a few scattered whitish hairs. 
Body above bluish-gray, with a wide slate-coloured dorsal band, having 
a central pale orange line from second to fifth segments. From fifth to 
eleventh inclusive, each segment is ornamented with a beautiful group of 
spots, placed in the dorsal band, two of them bright orange-——one in front 
and one behind—and one on each side of a greenish metallic hue ; each 
group being set in a nearly circular patch of velvety black. There are 
two lateral cream-coloured stripes, the upper one adjoining the dorsal 
band, these stripes growing indistinct towards the anterior and posterior | 
segments, and down which extends, from each of the black dorsal patches, 
a short black curved line, having immediately behind its junction with the 
dorsal band a yellowish dot. The sides are marked more or less with 
dull ochrey spots, some of which form a broken band, close to the under 
surface. On the dorsal portion of twelfth segment is a dull black spot, 
considerably raised, forming a small hump; terminal segment flattened 
and blackish. Body sparingly covered with whitish hairs, which are 
distributed chiefly along the sides, close to the under surface. 
Under surface dull greenish, feet black. 
Described from several specimens; found in the early part of Sep- 
tember, entered the chrysalis state from the 15th to 20th September, and 
produced the imago from the 6th to the 8th of June following. 
Mr. E. Newman, in his valuable work called “ British Moths,” gives a 
very full description of the larva of sé as follows :-—“ The head of the” 
caterpillar is rather wider than the second segment ; the body is hairy with 
parallel sides, but humped on the back; the first hump is slender, long, 
erect, horn-like, and seated on the fifth segment; the second hump is 
shorter, broader, and on the twelfth segment. The head is black, hairy, 
and shining ; its divisions very convex ; the second segment is black, with 
a very narrow median yellow line; the third, fourth, sixth, seventh, 
eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh segments have a broad median yellow 
stripe, and there is a median square spot of the same colour on the hinder 
part of the twelfth segment; the horn-like hump on the fifth segment is 
