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crown, whence it is relieved below by brown spots on 

 the face, and by a dark brown outline of the lobes 

 there, and on the middle of each lobe are three lines 

 of dark spots, i. e. one spot at the side of the cheek, 

 two in the middle, and a few more very minute between 

 and above them, also a dark spot or two about the 

 mouth, the papillae whitish, the ocelli black, the 

 thoracic segments much suffused with brownish- 

 ochreous, on which both the dorsal and subdorsal 

 regions are strongly blotched with dark crimson- 

 brown, the tubercles brown with yellow tips ; hence 

 the colour of the back and portions of the sides is a 

 brilliant deep yellow, bearing extremely minute elon- 

 gated freckles of a dark brown, a series of these 

 freckles faintly indicating dorsal and somewhat of sub- 

 dorsal lines, and an assemblage of them close together 

 constitute a dark spot on each side of the twelfth 

 segment near to the only distinctly noticeable spiracle, 

 which is there seen as a faint brown oval outline ; a 

 fine hair proceeds from each of the usual localities ; 

 on the belly, the legs, and some portions of the sides 

 the ground colour is pink, deeply tinged and freckled 

 above with dark crimson-brown ; this fluctuates along 

 the middle segments of the body in two distinct waves 

 on either side from the spiracular region of the fifth 

 segment, and falls again rather lower each time than 

 its previous level, till at the eleventh segment and 

 onward to the anal point it covers scarcely more than 

 the ventral surface ; the summits of these dark waves 

 reach high on the back of the sixth and ninth seg- 

 ments in such strong contrast to the yellow as to 

 create something of an optical illusion as to the shape 

 of the body. 



When the larva prepared for changing it began to 

 spin upon the upper surface of a leaf not very far from 

 the foot-stalk, and soon contrived to draw upwards a 

 portion of the two sides so as to form a cavity, to 

 which the midrib of the leaf would be a support 

 below, though its actual position was not quite in the 



