52 SPILOSOMA LUBRICEPEDA. 



Thehead was much as before, greyish-yellow and glossy, 

 the mouth blackish, and a creamy- whitish streak above 

 it ; papillse pale cream colour, ocelli black. 



In many there was no trace of any dorsal line, while 

 in some there was a very faint, paler, and interrupted 

 line, visible chiefly on some of the hinder segments, 

 and in others a cream-coloured line edged softly with 

 dark grey was distinct on the third, fourth, fifth, and 

 sixth, and less and less visible on the remaining seg- 

 ments ; a trace of it there could only be detected by 

 aid of a lens. 



On the 8th of September most of them were spun 

 up for pupation in cocoons of silk, in which the hairs 

 from their bodies were interwoven. (W. B., Note 

 Book III, 276.) 



Deiopeia pulchella. 

 Plate XL VI, fig. 3. 



On the 18th of June, 1878, 1 received from Mr. W. H. 

 Tug well two larvae in their third moult, which he had 

 reared thus far on Myosotis palustris with others from 

 a batch of eggs sent him from Mentone by Mr. J. 

 Sidebotham. The eggs had reached him on the 24th 

 May, and hatched the same day. 



The two larvae I received on the 18th of June were 

 then respectively of the length of half an inch, and three- 

 quarters of an inch, the segments plump and well cut 

 at the divisions, the head the smallest. The ground 

 colour was brownish-black or very dark brownish-grey, 

 appearing black by force of contrast with an ornamental 

 white dorsal stripe, which on the smaller larva was 

 continuous, but not quite so in the other ; in both 

 specimens it was interrupted by a transverse bar of 

 lurid red, or dingy ochreous-red, narrow in the larger 

 one ; there was a blotch of the same red below on the 

 side ; the spiracular region was puckered and marked 



