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the addition to the usual obscure dim dorsal line of a bright pale 
ochreous mark at the beginning of each segment, terminating at the 
end of the broad first sub-division, which appears like a black band ; 
the bright yellow sub-dorsal spots as before. 
Var. 3. The ground colour of the back and sides a pale Sndnir 
ochreous-olive ; the sub-dorsal pale primrose-yellow spots and the 
spiracles environed with black ; the belly and prolegs rose-pink. 
Var. 4. A deep jet black on the anterior segments, bluish-black on 
the others; the head, thoracic plate, and anal extremities of very dark 
purplish-red ; the sub-dorsal spots of a dirty and dingy yellowish-drab 
tint, with their centres more or less filled up with blackish-brown, in 
one or two instances wholly obliterated. 
Var. 5. Ground colour entirely bluish-black, the deepest tinge of 
purplish-red on the head, the plate behind it, and the anal extremities ; 
blotches appear on the side of the anal flap, which, with the sub-dorsal 
spots, the spiracles, and an extensive irroration of small dots, are all 
of the purest pale golden-yellow, the black ground being left unbroken 
as a band across the back from one sub-dorsal spot to the other. 
Concluding my own remarks, I may state that, in every instance, 
the skin after the last moult was black for a day or two, as previously 
mentioned ; but at this time one may judge of the colour the larva 
will eventually assume, by the tint of the head, thoracic plate, and anal 
extremities ; these parts, if then quite black, indicate that the ground 
colour will be black to the end of its career; but if they are of deep 
purplish-red, the larva will turn to a dark olive or brown; or should 
they be of a bluish-green, slightly tinged with pink, a pale olive larva 
will result. 
So far, I have put down only what I have myself seen in the 
living larve, but I may state that amongst some figures most kindly 
lent me by Mr. Boswell Syme, there was one of a black variety, with 
the sub-dorsal spots of a dull crimson colour. 
Mr. Boswell Syme has had altogether about two hundred larve, 
and says “head always red,” whilst Stainton, in his notes made from 
living larve, says “head pale greenish,” with the memorandum that 
Sepp’s figure aime nearest to his specimens. 
The pupa “T examined is 18-inch long, including the short, curved 
horn or anal spike, and moderately stout; the head rounded and 
narrower than the thorax, the anal So tersiy a little tapered but other- 
wise tolerably uniform in bulk; the wing-cases lie close to the body, 
and extend as far as the eighth abdominal segment, the last five seg- 
ments are rather deeply cut and flexible, the sides of the incisions 
smooth, all the other surface granulous. 
