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and the subdorsal and lateral lines are almost entirely 

 suffused with the ground colouring, the spots paler 

 and distinct, the spiracular stripe still conspicuously 

 white. By the 1st of June they were full-grown and 

 measured when stretched out one and a half to one 

 and five- eighths of an inch, the thoracic segments 

 tapering to the head, which is the smallest ; the rest 

 of the body cylindrical ; segments plump ; the colour 

 is rather olivaceous-brown, thickly freckled with 

 darker so as to obliterate all lines, there being but 

 slight paler indications of dorsal and subdorsal ones 

 on the second, and all the spots slightly paler, denned 

 with darker than the ground, in threes along the 

 back ; the belly rather lighter but similar to the back ; 

 the spiracles black, at the upper edge of a pure white 

 stripe, which is attenuated towards the head and on 

 the last segment ; a dark brown streak on each lobe 

 of the head, which is finely reticulated. (W. B., 1882, 

 Note Book IV, 179.) 



Anchocelis lunosa. 

 Plate LXXXIII, fig. 3. 



I should not offer a description of this larva were it 

 not that I think it scarcely comes under the generic 

 characters given of the Anchocelis larvae in the 

 ' Manual,' whilst some of its distinguishing characters 

 are omitted in the specific description after Guenee. 



In October, 1865, Mr. H. Terry sent us some eggs, 

 the larvee from which I found feeding by the 28th of 

 that month. They were then of a dull blue-green, 

 with black heads, and rested on blades of grass, with 

 their heads turned round sideways. On February 22nd, 

 1866, I noted that they were of various lengths, from 

 one-third to half an inch, and the smaller ones were 

 still green, whilst most of the bigger ones (being a 

 moult in advance) had a brownish tinge ; and all had 



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