56 DEI0PE1A PULOHELLA. 



cast skin. After the third moult the colour changed 

 to a dark lurid purple, with faint whitish dorsal and 

 spiracular stripes, the head, small plate on second 

 segment, and tubercular warts blackish as before. 

 At this time it fed on the leaves and gnawed the rind 

 of the stalks. 



A lens now showed the hairs to be barbed, those on 

 the back black, and the lateral ones white, assimila- 

 ting well with the hairs of the plant, and as parts of 

 some of the leaves turn blackish the larva is protected 

 by its resemblance in colour. 



As the larva grows in its third coat the brick-red 

 transverse bands are developed across the middle of 

 the segments. On the 21st of August the most for- 

 ward larva was laid up, waiting for its fourth moult, 

 which occurred early in the morning of the 23rd ; the 

 larva then entered the black stage, with scarcely a 

 trace of the red bands ; the second larva had also 

 developed its third coat into an orange-buff colour, 

 with white dorsal and spiracular stripes and black 

 tubercular spots. It moulted August 26th, and was 

 then blacker at the spots than before, with the white 

 occupying more space at each end of a segment, where 

 a little smoky-grey appears at the sides, thus restrict- 

 ing the orange-buff to a transverse band across the 

 back as far as the spiracular region. This was now 

 over its fourth moult, consequently in its fifth coat. 

 (W. B., Note Book III, 236.) 



Lasiooampa queecus. 

 Plate XL VII, fig. 2. 



On the 8th of June, 1868, Mr. Doubleday sent me 

 two larvse found at Epping, which he assured me 

 were the true L. quercus. They came to me with 

 hawthorn. 



Without going into a lengthened description of 



