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dorsal marking was of a beautiful dove colour, with 

 black tubercular spots, tipped with bright green; the 

 sides of this larva were at the last a dingy drab-green. 

 The order of the spots is to be arranged as a curve 

 rather than a trapezoid, the two outer spots of the 

 four are each rather larger than the two inner ones, 

 and from the eighth segment they all gradually decrease 

 in size to the eleventh, but ou the twelfth segment they 

 are larger and in pairs, forming a trapezoid. (W. B., 

 Note Book IV, 208-9.) 



ACRONYOTA ALNI. 



Plate LVII, fig. 1. 



On the 2nd of July, 1881, I received from Mr. J. 

 G. Ross, of Bathampton, eight eggs of this rare species, 

 one was laid on a piece of bark, the others on muslin. 

 In shape the egg is circular, convex above, and finely 

 and numerously ribbed ; the surface without gloss, 

 and of the faintest possible tinge of pink, irregularly 

 reticulated all over with crimson ; the next day most 

 of them had become a more decided pink, and the 

 reticulation darker crimson, on one egg quite purplish- 

 brown ; in all of them the spaces of pink-brown colour 

 between the reticulations were roundish, and of vary- 

 ing sizes, some larger and some smaller than others ; 

 on the evening of the 4th three had changed to a 

 darkish brown, with a largish central black spot. 



On the night of July 4th three eggs hatched at 

 10.30 p.m., another by the morning of the 5th, and 

 two more on the 7th. 



The newly-hatched larva has a shining black head, 

 and plate on second segment ; the third and fourth 

 segments are light pinkish-grey, or violet-grey, and 

 also the eleventh segment, which is the palest and 

 most translucent ; the back on all the other segments 

 showing dark brown, the belly and legs light pinkish- 



