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time to time ; but at this period they were tried with 

 bramble, and after tasting it, they no longer cared for 

 rose, and thenceforward fed up chiefly on brambles of 

 different species. 



The full-grown larva was one inch and a half in 

 length, moderately stout, cylindrical, and uniform in 

 bulk, with tolerably well-defined segmental divisions ; 

 the colour on the back and sides, as far as the spiracles, 

 green, somewhat inclining to olive, and freckled with 

 a little darker green, and on this freckled surface the 

 dorsal and subdorsal lines could be distinctly traced, 

 a little paler than the ground, but edged with inter- 

 rupted, freckly, almost blackish, lines, which, in some 

 instances, especially with the dorsal line, seemed 

 almost to obscure the pale line they enclosed ; the 

 tubercular dots were also paler than the ground, and 

 very finely ringed with darker green ; the boundary 

 of this green colouring along the side was completed 

 by a black line, interrupted only where the spiracles 

 (white, outlined with black) were placed upon it ; 

 immediately beneath the spiracles the contrast of 

 whitish-yellow deepened a little by degrees into a pale 

 yellowish-green; which was the colour of the belly and 

 legs ; these last were tipped with brownish ; the head 

 was brownish-green, freckled with darker ; the second 

 segment was not very different in texture from the 

 rest of the body ; it was in most examples edged in 

 front with very dark brown, and the pale lines that 

 appeared on it were without any dark edging ; the 

 whole brood presented scarcely the least variety, either 

 in colouring or detail, but were as constant as possible 

 in their uniformity. 



Some of the larvse, which were kept in a flower-pot 

 with sand for soil, formed very neat compact cocoons 

 of silk, covered thinly but uniformly with the sand, 

 rather more than five-eighths of an inch long, and 

 about five- sixteenths broad; probably, in a coarser 

 soil, they would have been less regular in outline. 



The pupa was rather short and stout, smooth and 



