58 MNIOCAMPA CRUDA. 



T^NIOCAMPA CRUDA. 



Plate LXXXII, fig. 2. 



On the 2nd of April, 1871, I received from Mr. 

 F. E. Harman, of Whitfield, near Hereford, a few 

 eggs (or rather larvse, as they had hatched on the 

 way) of this insect. When just emerged the caterpillar 

 is dirty greenish, with a rather large, shining black 

 head. Until a length of about half an inch has been 

 attained, it lives in a sort of retreat formed by drawing 

 together, by means of silken threads, several leaves ; 

 and afterwards it still forms a similar retreat in which 

 to moult. 



The adult larva is about one and a quarter inch in 

 length, and of moderate bulk in proportion. Head 

 globular, about the same width as, or perhaps very 

 slightly broader than, the second segment ; body 

 cylindrical, and of uniform thickness throughout ; skin 

 smooth and soft, semi-translucent, and rather glossy. 

 The ground colour is dark smoky-green, variegated 

 with yellowish-green, in some specimens the yellowish- 

 green predominating ; both the ground and markings 

 vary in intensity in different specimens. Head smooth 

 and shining, grey, very thickly marked and dotted 

 with intense black; there is a black shining plate-like 

 mark on the second, and another on the anal segment ; 

 that on the second is divided by the medio-dorsal 

 and subdorsal lines. The medio-dorsal stripe is 

 yellowish-white ; the subdorsal lines narrower, white; 

 two parallel waved lines of the same colour as the 

 medio-dorsal stripe form the spiracular lines ; these 

 waved lines form a sort of chain-like band of oblong 

 spaces, and in the centre of each space, just below the 

 upper line, the black spiracles are situated ; the trape- 

 zoidal dots also black. Ventral surface and pro legs 

 uniformly dull yellowish green ; the legs black. 



Rests on a leaf, with the head bent considerably 

 round to one side. My larva? fed on whitethorn ; and 



