20 ACRONYCTA RUMICIS. 



what thick and tufted ; on the sixth segment they are 

 pale flesh colour and whitish and less tufted, and still 

 less tufted on the seventh, and only radiating on the 

 following segments ; the front part of the thirteenth 

 segment marked like the others, the anal flap dark 

 smoky-brown, varied a little with brownish-ochreous. 

 Segments 2, 3, and 4 are marked in a more linear 

 manner, with white in the subdorsal region, though 

 interrupted ; the subspiracular ridge is brownish-grey, 

 with a spot of buff just above it on the third and fourth 

 segments. Anterior legs blackish. The head black 

 and shining, the lobes outlined on the front of the 

 face, and marked on the sides with brownish-ochreous. 

 Most of the hairs on the back and sides pale tawny 

 flesh colour, with some few brownish-grey longer ones. 

 From the way in which this larva carries itself in 

 bending down the thoracic segments the fifth segment 

 appears a little humped, more especially from the 

 hairy tufts it bears. (W. B., Note Book I, 79, 85, 

 and 100.) 



AORONYCTA AURICOMA. 



Plate LVII, fig. 4. 



During last summer, by the kindness of that indus- 

 trious and expert collector, Mr. Meek, I had the oppor- 

 tunity of figuring and rearing a larva of this species, 

 which well deserves its name of auricoma. 



It was taken on oak, and both oak and bramble 

 were given to it for food, and at length it seemed to 

 prefer the latter, and on the 13th July it spun its 

 silken cocoon on the underside of a bramble leaf, and 

 the moth emerged on the 3rd of August. 



The full-grown larva was about one inch and a half 

 in length, and cylindrical, but the head smaller than 

 the second segment. Ground colour of the body and 

 ventral prolegs a dark slaty-grey ; head and anterior 

 legs black and shining ; a black plate on the second 



