26 TEIPHJENA SUBSEQUA. 



on the apex, and a zone of irregular blotches round 

 the middle ; just before hatching, the colour was pale 

 grey. 



The young larvae were at first of a semi-pellucid 

 greenish-grey colour, with a brown head, and an 

 internal brownish-green vessel, all the usual warts very 

 conspicuous, and bearing each a bristle. In ten days 

 they had moulted into opaque, brownish-grey coats, 

 having a stripe of cream colour above the legs ; at 

 their next moult, when from three to four lines long, 

 they were of similar colour, the dorsal and subdorsal 

 lines becoming faintly visible, the former as a pale 

 thread running down the centre of a brown stripe, 

 the latter as a fine line rather paler than the ground, 

 and edged above with a thread of darker ; the lower 

 stripe above the legs much paler than the ground 

 colour. In three weeks more they were five lines in 

 length, and stouter in proportion than before, and now 

 showed the dorsal stripe white running uninterruptedly 

 through oval shapes of brownish-grey, darker than 

 the ground colour, the subdorsal stripe as before, and 

 the pale subspiracular stripe having a fine line of 

 white on its upper edge. These details, even at this 

 early stage, effectually distinguish this species from 

 either of its congeners. Another week of growth 

 brought them up to five-eighths of an inch in length, 

 and they were now generally of a little deeper tint of 

 greyish-brown, the dorsal white stripe still the distinct 

 character, running now through elongated diamond 

 shapes, darker than the ground colour ; the subdorsal 

 stripe a little less white, with a series of oblong black 

 dashes along its upper margin ; just before the last 

 moult the whitish stripes assumed an ochreous-yellow 

 tint, and the whole ornamentation generally came 

 very near to the appearance of the full-grown stage 

 — now to be described. 



The full-grown larva is one inch and a half to one 

 and five-eighths inches in length, of stout proportions, 

 cylindrical, and of tolerably uniform bulk throughout, 



