TJ]NTOOAMPA GOTHICINA. 53 



T^ilNIOCAMPA GOTHICINA. 



[Plate LXXX, fig. 3, T. gothica*] 



A batch of eggs sent by Mr. John Dunsmore, of 

 Paisley, on June 6th, were all hatched in coming to 

 me on the 7th. Only one empty egg-shell remained 

 uneaten. This was round and domed at the top, 

 flattened beneath, finely ribbed and reticulated, white 

 in colour, with a large hole in the side where the larva 

 made its exit. 



The young larva is of a slaty-green colour, head, 

 narrow plate behind it, and fine tubercular dots black. 

 By the 14th they were nearly a quarter of an inch 

 long, with pale yellowish-green head, darker bluish- 

 green body, having bluish-white dorsal and subdorsal 

 lines, and a greenish-white subspiracular stripe, head 

 and pale yellow-green plate dotted with black, a line of 

 paler freckles on each side of the back just above the 

 subdorsal region, and tubercular dots black. By the 

 23rd they had grown considerably, the most advanced 

 by this date being seven-eighths of an inch in length, 

 their colouring much the same as before. By July 1st 

 the most forward measured about an inch and a half 

 in length ; ground colour of some bluish-green, of 

 others yellowish-green, yellowish at segmental folds, 

 yellowish or yellowish-white freckles on the back, 

 much fainter, hardly noticeable, on the belly ; dorsal 

 line yellow, also the subdorsal, but thinner and a trifle 

 broken ; the inflated spiracular stripe is irregularly 

 bordered on the side above with blackish more or less ; 

 the upper edge of the stripe itself is pale yellow, 

 sharply defined against the black above it, and the 

 lower edge is gently defined with a thin faint line of 

 yellowish, the oval spiracles white, outlined with black. 

 Note. — In T. gothica the inflated spiracular stripe 



# The larva described as T. gothicina was not figured. It is now 

 generally acknowledged that gothicina is only a variety of gothica. — 

 E, McL. 



