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before, but less well denned, as the brown of the back 

 and sides is paler, and the belly has a faint watery 

 greenish-yellow tint; the anterior legs are reddish- 

 brown. 



When found at large in the Garex, full grown, the 

 larva is from half an inch to nearly five-eighths in 

 length, of the same general figure as above, the seg- 

 mental folds well defined, the subdividing wrinkles are 

 deep on the third and fourth but moderate on other 

 segments, which are dimpled along the sides ; the 

 general ground colour of the body is dull ochreous 

 with a tinge of reddish ; the back is deeply tinged with 

 dull purplish-red on the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, 

 seventh, and eighth segments ; the dorsal line so in- 

 conspicuous as only just to be discerned as pulsating; 

 the segmental folds are pale ochreous ; the head is 

 reddish-brown and shining, with dark brown mouth 

 and black ocelli; a yellow-brown shining plate on the 

 second segment has its front margin rather darker 

 brown, the anterior legs of the same colour; on the 

 sides of the third and fourth segments is a triangular 

 group of three large brownish-yellow horny spots ; the 

 ordinary tubercular dots on other parts of the body 

 are very minute, each with a fine short bristly hair, 

 and a faintly paler ring round its base ; the spiracles 

 black, the narrow plate of yellowish-brown on the fore- 

 part of the anal segment has its front margin rather 

 bluntly pointed in the centre, that of the anal flap is 

 of the same shining colour, flattened, but with a little 

 raised ridge round behind, from which proceed a few 

 short bristly hairs, the ventral and anal prolegs tipped 

 with brown hooks ; the skin of the body is smooth, but 

 without gloss. 



The pupa is subterranean, but often lies only a short 

 distance beneath the surface, and sometimes is scar eel v 

 buried amongst vegetable remains slightly held to- 

 gether by a few threads of silk ; it is five-sixteenths of 

 an inch in length, and of the usual Noctua form, stout 

 across the thorax, the abdomen tapering and ending 



