1870.] : 101 
but with no other projection to break the outline. It was placed on 
the surface of the earth, and the cocoon was but slight, being formed 
of a few bits of earth and withered fuchsia flowers, just tacked together 
with a few silken threads, and many interstices being left through 
which the pupa could be seen. 
I shall next copy the notes, which, together with a figure, were 
kindly furnished me by Mr. W. C. Marshall, of a larva taken by Mr. L. 
Cumming, near the Lizard, Cornwall. 
The head and second segment, and the anal prolegs all deep pink ; 
the dorsal line yellow; the horn red and rough; the ground colour 
dark green, freckled with yellow, save in the transverse bands on the 
front of each segment; the sub-dorsal line yellow, but without the row 
‘of roundish spots; the belly yellowish. This seems the palest specimen 
I have heard of. Nearest to it, and in fact intermediate between it 
and my Exeter larva, comes one captured near Plymouth, and described 
and figured by Mr. G.C. Bignell: the head and second segment dull pink ; 
the dorsal line yellow ; the ground colour blackish, much freckled with 
yellow ; the sub-dorsal line yellow; the sub-dorsal row of spots yellow, 
with pink centres; the anal prolegs dull pink; the belly whitish-yellow ; 
the horn red, tipped with black, and rough. 
But another larva, described to me by Mr. J. Gatcombe, was much 
darker, and must have come near to Fuessly’s description quoted in 
Stainton’s Manual; it had the head and second segment black, an 
intensely black stripe all down the back, the transverse bands black, 
and enclosing, at their extremities, semi-lunar spots of yellowish-white 
on the sub-dorsal line; the pinkish suffusion of the round spots of 
other specimens being in this case replaced with black, and so the 
usual outline of the spots was altered; the rest of the back and sides 
blackish, irrorated with greenish-drab; the belly also very dark; the 
horn dark purplish. 
Now, if it be lawful, as I believe it is, to add to these notes of four 
larve taken in Devon and Cornwall this summer, a few words from 
Boisduval’s descriptions of Detlephila lineata (his lineata being the 
livornica of Hiibner and Esper, and so of our lists), I think we shall 
come to the conclusion that he is quite right when he speaks of it as 
and that after granting it 
” 
“cette belle chenille, qui varie beaucoup ; 
the usual form and outline of a Deilephila larva, the really permanent 
distinctive mark is the sub-dorsal pale line, generally bearing on it the 
row of pale spots. 
Boisduval then first figures a specimen with deep red head, second 
segment, dorsal line, horn, and anal prolegs: he calls the ground 
