THE JjARVM 



OF THE 



BRITISH MOTHS. 



DlLOBA CMERULE0CEPHALA. 



Plate XXXVI, fig. 1. 



During the winter of 1881^82 the Rev. J. Hellins 

 sent me three eggs of cceruleocephala ; they were brown 

 and apparently ribbed, but the ribs could not be 

 counted as they were so curiously covered with bristly 

 brown hairs. On the 6th of February Mr. Hellins 

 asked to have them returned, as he had lost those he 

 had kept for himself, so I returned them. On the 11th 

 of March he reported that two of them had hatched 

 and were bristly little fellows. 



On the 30th of March I received one of the larvse, 

 that had passed its first moult, feeding on white- 

 thorn ; it was 4 lines long or 11 mm., of stoutish and 

 uniform proportion, of a lightish grey colour with 

 yellow dorsal stripe and spiracular line, black head, 

 and a streak of yellow across the upper lip, a black 

 oblong squarish spot across the middle of the second 

 segment, a transverse series of round black dots on 

 the third and fourth, on the back of those beyond they 

 occurred in trapezoids, a larger oval black spot was 

 on the front part of the thirteenth segment, and a black 

 plate on the anal flap ; one black dot on the side of 



vol. in. • 1 



