100 Z { October, 
I now offer a description of my larva, made with Mr. Buckler’s 
good help; and shall then add notes communicated to me of other 
larvee found in South Devon and Cornwall. 
The length of the larva, when stretched out, is about 34 inches; 
the head is the smallest segment, the body tapering towards it from 
the 5th segment; the anal prolegs broad and square, the horn slightly 
curved, blunt at the tip, and rough; the skin rather shining, but on 
the hinder half of each segment showing seven folds, well defined at the 
sides, and not so distinct on the back, where the skin seems tighter. 
The ground colour of the back and sides, as far as the spiracles, is an 
intensely dark green; the head black, but with a streak across the 
mouth, as well as the base of the papille, lemon-yellow ; the plate on 
the second segment black; commencing on the third segment, and 
continued to the horn, an ochreous-yellow dorsal stripe, suffused with 
rose-pink, and bordered for some little width on each side by the plain 
ground colour; a sort of transverse band, also of the ground colour, 
placed on the front of each segment, and extending from the dorsal 
line to below the sub-dorsal; the rest of the side irrorated with small 
greenish-yellow spots, becoming more whitish near the spiracles; on 
the lower ends of the above-mentioned bands on segments four to 
twelve, and just in the region of the well-defined, greenish-yellow, 
freckled, sub-dorsal line (in fact, strung on it like beads on a string), a 
row of nine large roundish lemon-yellow spots tinged in the upper part 
with pink; and made all the more conspicuous from being delicately 
bordered with black, with two largish spots of black also on their 
upper border; on segment three, no spot, but only the sub-dorsal line ; 
the spiracles ochreous-yellow, tinged with pink; just below them, an 
inflated and puckered stripe—yellow on the second segment, but 
whitish on all the rest, and interrupted just behind the middle of each 
segment by a large round spot of pink, slightly tinged with olive ; the 
belly also pinkish; the true legs black; the ventral prolegs pinkish- 
white, tipped in front with a spot of black ; the anal prolegs black; a 
pink edge at side of anal flap. I have called the sub-dorsal spots 
roundish, but in reality the shape is somewhat that of a dumpy pear, 
with the short stem pointing forwards and upwards; whilst the last 
spot in the row, that on segment twelve, may be described as of an 
elongated pear-shape, with the point directed backwards and upwards 
towards the horn. 
Unfortunately, I did not examine the pupa with a view to de- 
scription, but I saw that it was long, of alight brown colour, with the last 
two segments darker brown, the anal spike strong and sharply pointed, 
