174 (January, 
thirteenth, is a squarish, dull, deep, red spot; head shining black; 
tubercles and hairs all deep brown ; each front pair of tubercles set in 
reddish-grey rings; there is a fine, reddish-grey, interrupted, sub- 
spiracular line; the belly pinkish-grey, all the legs shining, dark, 
reddish-grey, tips of prolegs pellucid. 
The larva retired into a curled-up bramble leaf, and there formed 
a thin, webby cocoon of greyish silk, outside which was a finer and 
thinner web of white silk. 
Lirnosta compnana. The larva of this species has long been 
known, and descriptions of it have been published by many Entomolo- 
gists ; our object, therefore, in introducing any remarks upon it in this 
paper, is not so much to describe it over again, as to say something 
about it with reference to the larva of molybdeola. 
At page 109 of E. M. M., vol. v, was published an account of two 
larvee of molybdeola reared from the egg in 1867-68, very careful figures . 
of which were also taken, with the view of using them for comparison 
when the larva of complana could be procured. And in this way we 
have used them both this last summer, and the summer before, and 
have noted the following particulars. 
In several points there exists between the larvee of complana and 
molybdeola the similarity which is also shown by their imagos: complana 
is rather the larger of the two, but there is in both the same figure, 
the same arrangement of tubercles, the same sort of hairs in the tufts ; 
in their colouring there is the same ground of dead blackish-grey, the 
brown tubercles and hairs, the velvety-black dorsal and lateral stripes, 
and the sub-dorsal row of parti-coloured orange-red and white spots. 
Now, in the descriptions of complana, we find these spots called oval ; 
“taches ovales,”* Guenée calls them; “taches arrondies ou un peu 
ovalaires,” + says Boisduval; and, as far as we can gather from our friends 
who are accustomed to take the larva of complana in this country, they 
do not know of any other shape for these spots but oval or rowndish ; in 
the two larve of molybdeola mentioned above, these sub-dorsal spots 
had no roundness whatever in their shape, but were narrowish, oblong, 
somewhat wedge-shaped marks. Boisduval, in his account of complana, 
goes on to say, ‘‘ Elle varie un peu pour la couleur et pour la forme 
des taches orangées; quelque fois celles-ci sont blanches sur tous 
leurs bords avec le centre orangé ; d’autres fois il n’y a que la partie 
postérieure de chaque qui soit orangée, Souvent elles sont alongées 
* Annales de la Societé Entomologique de France. 1861. Premier trimestre. 
+ ** Collection Iconographique et Historique des Chenilles.” 
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