4 AGROTIS LTJNIGERA. 



When half an inch long, they were pale ochreous or 

 flesh colour on the back, the sides greyish-green, their 

 bellies of the same tint, but paler, and on the back of 

 each segment a V-like mark of brown, inverted, with 

 the apex in front, through which passed the pale buff 

 dorsal line, most conspicuous through the black plate 

 on the second segment. On the two sides of the 

 inverted V mark were placed the usual four tubercular 

 warts, black and large in proportion, and very con- 

 spicuous. 



When they had attained an inch in length, the 

 inverted V marks had disappeared, and the larvae 

 had become much darker ; the central part of the 

 back on each segment mottled with dark brown, in 

 the form of a diamond with the points cut off: ; the 

 spaces next the sub-dorsal line buff colour, and wedge- 

 shaped. 



The dorsal line conspicuously sulphur-yellow on the 

 black shining plate of the second segment only, while 

 on all the other segments scarcely noticeable, and 

 chiefly at the commencement of each, as rather paler 

 brown than the mottled portions it runs through. 



The anal segment buff colour, forming a conspicuous 

 pale mark above the flap. 



The sides blackish-green, bounded above by the sub- 

 dorsal line of rather darker hue, and below by the 

 black spiracles and usual warty tubercles; the sub- 

 dorsal line is edged below by a fine thread of dirty 

 whitish-green, and another such fine line, but undu- 

 lating and interrupted, runs between it and the 

 spiracles. Above the legs is a pale, thin, dirty whitish 

 line ; the belly and legs slightly darker, of a greenish- 

 drab tint ; the ventral pro-legs more beneath the body 

 than usual; all the tubercular warts blackish, large, 

 and shining. The head mottled-brownish, with a 

 large black blotch on each side of the crown. 



When the larvae were an inch and a quarter long, 

 and even a trifle longer, their details of markings and 

 colours were just the same, but more intense and 



