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with a marbling of white streaks in a linear direction 

 along its length, the belly and legs of the same dark 

 colour as the ground of the back; the head a lurid 

 dark red marked broadly with black on the front of 

 each lobe. The tubercular spots were prominent deep 

 black warts, each bearing a curved, black, bristly hair, 

 those on the sides above the legs and some few above 

 on the thoracic segments were rather longer, whitish, 

 and finely plumose throughout their length ; the whole 

 surface of the body shining. 



Mr. Tugwell describes their first juvenile skin as 

 dull orange, having a few bristly hairs, and their 

 appearance maggoty and manner sluggish ; their 

 second skin as darker greyish, with a transverse band 

 of dull orange on each segment from one spiracle 

 across the back to the other, the usual tubercular 

 warts black in each band and with a bristly hair. He 

 observed that they ate the leaves of Myosotis palustris, 

 but seemed to prefer the flowers and young seeds. 



My two larvse moulted on the 21st and 24th of 

 June. I figured the former on the 25th; they had 

 both ceased to show any red markings The largest at 

 this date measured seven-eighths of an inch and was 

 velvety black, softening into a lighter blackish-blue at 

 the segmental divisions, which added to the velvety 

 appearance ; the dorsal ivory-white marking formed a 

 series of ornamental spots upon each segmental divi- 

 sion ; there was a small white speck on either side of 

 the front of a segment. Along the spiracular region 

 ran a ragged and rather interrupted white line, branch- 

 ing a little lichen-like upwards at each segmental 

 division, where it melted into the bluish-black; the 

 spiracles were black ; the belly black and velvety, the 

 ventral and anal prolegs dark brownish-grey. The 

 black hairs of the back and the white secondary dorsal 

 hairs of the thoracic segments and those all along the 

 sides were long, pointed, and barbed or plumose as 

 before ; the head was reddish, marked with black on 

 the crown of each lobe, the triangular space between 



