66 APOROPHYLA AUSTRALIS. 



segment ; the head, entire second and half the third 

 segment, anal tip, and legs, also a faint spiracular line 

 visible only on the anterior segments, are all of the 

 olive-green ground colour. 



The pupa is subterranean (but not enclosed in a hard 

 cocoon) ; its shape is very cylindrical, tolerably even in 

 bulk throughout, but rather thicker in the middle, very 

 smooth, the tail ending with a small spike ; its colour 

 a rich brown, and polished. (W. B., E.M.M. VI, 13, 

 6, 69.) 



Neuria SAPONARLE. 

 Plate LXVI, fig. 5. 



In the course of July, 1866, Mr. Batty kindly sent me 

 some young larvae, said to be this species, which he had 

 reared from eggs on Polygonum aviculare, and to which 

 food they adhered entirely although I supplied them 

 with Silene inflata and other plants ; they were full fed 

 by the 10th of August, and to the last retained their 

 colours and markings. The following year sped on, 

 but without the appearance of any imago, and when 

 their pot was emptied of contents no pupa was found, 

 but only some few shrivelled-up larval remains. 



This larva was cylindrical, and tapered very little at 

 the posterior extremity, and was altogether very uni- 

 form both in size and tint ; the whole of the back and 

 sides to the spiracles being of a greenish-drab, or 

 else of a reddish-drab colour, delicately marbled with 

 darker tints of the same ; while along the spiracles 

 there was a faint whitish streak, and a very sinuous 

 interrupted dark streak running through it. The spi- 

 racles were very small, of the ground colour, outlined 

 with darker drab ; a slightly paler dorsal line, outlined 

 with darker, could just be seen, chiefly on the anterior 

 segments ; and amongst the fine marbling could also 

 be discerned a fine and rather sinuous subdorsal line ; 

 another, similar but rather more continuous, ran between 



