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paler on the sides and paler still on the belly and 

 ventral legs, and rather translucent; the dorsal stripe 

 is of the pure green ground colour, rather darker than 

 the sides; the subdorsal is a very fine line of the 

 green ground-colour ; and the space of the back 

 between them is filled up with greenish white ; a faint 

 line of greenish-white, ragged in character, follows 

 close below and parallel to the subdorsal; a little 

 distance below comes the spiracular stripe of faiut 

 greenish-white ; and this after au interrupted lino 

 of the ground colour is followed by another such 

 stripe ; the belly is faintly greenish ; the spiracles and 

 tubercular dots are black, with a whitish fine hair 

 from each of the last, the longest hairs behind. 



By the 19th of September the larva had grown to 

 be almost an inch in length, lying along the stalk in 

 a flower panicle in a web with some seed filaments ad- 

 hering to them. By the 24th, when about to change, 

 it began to turn greenish-ochreous uniformly, and 

 crawled up to the leno cover at the side of the 

 pot. Here on the 5th of October I observed that it 

 had spun itself a slight silken cocoon in which to 

 hibernate. (William Buckler, October, 1862; Note 

 Book I, 199, 200.) 



On the 13th September, 1875, I received a fine full- 

 grown larva of this species from Mr. J. B. Hodgkin- 

 son, who had collected about half-a-score at Grange 

 two days previously. 



The larva is very lively, about an inch in length, 

 and of tolerable bulk in proportion ; the head is 

 globular and shining, small, about the same width 

 as the second, but much narrower than the succeeding 

 segments ; the body is cylindrical and very markedly 

 attenuated towards the extremities ; the segmental 

 divisions are rather deeply cut ; the somewhat glossy 

 and semi-translucent skin is clothed with a few scat- 

 tered short hairs ; the usual dots are distinct. 



The ground colour is rich reddish-pink ; the head 

 and anal segment are pale yellowish-brown ; the 



