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head, and the plate on the second segment are highly 

 lustrous, and the skin on all the rest of the body is 

 glossy, but, from being covered with multitudes of 

 minute wrinkles, it has no very great play of light on 

 its surface ; there are also three deeper subdividing 

 transverse wrinkles across each segment. The whole 

 colouring consists in lighter and darker tints of a red- 

 dish-brown inclining to ochreous ; the ground colour 

 of the back and side is not very deep in tint, and is 

 much like that of some of the Leucanidse ; the dorsal 

 stripe begins on the deeper brown plate of the second 

 segment, where it is but a mere line ; on the third and 

 fourth it grows wider, and thence is of about equal 

 width to near the anal tip, being very much paler than 

 the ground, indeed, almost whitish-ochreous ; it is very 

 finely edged with darker brown, and on each segment 

 passes through a narrow elliptic mark of darker brown 

 than the ground colour, composed of freckles. The 

 subdorsal stripe is of similar width, but is very little 

 paler than the ground colour, though very well defined 

 by its having darker edges ; below this, after an inter- 

 val of the ground colour which terminates in a dark 

 edging, comes the spiracuiar stripe broader than either 

 of the others, of about the same depth of tint as the 

 subdorsal stripe, and defined by a paler edging above 

 and below; about the middle of this broad stripe is 

 the row of brown spiracles, each delicately outlined 

 with almost black, and surrounded with a small pale 

 halo ; the belly and legs are of a slightly deeper tint 

 than the spiracuiar stripe, and are faintly freckled with 

 a still paler tint. The ventral prolegs are all tipped 

 with deep brown, the anterior legs spotted with brown ; 

 the usual two pairs of tubercular dots on the back of 

 each segment are deep brown, as are also the pair on 

 the side situated above and behind each spiracle, each 

 dot being furnished with a fine brown hair ; the head 

 is brown, and very dark brown round the mouth. In 

 March, after hybernation, the larva is generally of 

 darker hue, the whole colouring being of deeper brown, 



