BOTYS UftTICATA. 137 



On the 15th of September, 1876, while searching 

 the plants of Stachys sylvatica for larvae of Ebulea 

 stachydalis I found on some of those plants, in folded 

 leaves, three larvae of larger size, which had probably 

 come from nettles, amongst which the Stachys was 

 growing. 



One of the larvae I figured, and found it to be 

 one inch long in repose, but when stretched out in 

 walking was even an eighth longer. Its shape was 

 fusiform and its general ground colour, seen best on 

 the belly, was a faint greenish tint, rather translucent; 

 the folds of skin or segmental divisions were faint 

 yellowish, the dorsal stripe darkish full or slightly 

 yellowish-green, within which can be seen the 

 pulsations of the dorsal vessel; this green stripe 

 is bordered by a narrowish stripe of yellowish or 

 whitish-yellow, rather opaque; below this, as far as the 

 spiracles (which are small, round, and black), the colour 

 is rather a deeper greenish than the ground, and 

 somewhat translucent, as is also the paler belly and 

 legs; the head is green, but broadly marked with black 

 on each lobe, on the lower part of which a spot of the 

 green is left, and the triangular space between the 

 lobes is green ; the mouth is outlined with black and 

 also the face; the second segment is green with a 

 black, thick, subdorsal stripe on each side ; the 

 tubercular warts are small and raised, each with a 

 fine hair. The segments are subdivided with a 

 deepish wrinkle across the back, and the segmental 

 divisions are well cut, particularly on the belly, where 

 the segments appear tumid ; the ventral and anal legs 

 are rather long and slender, with rather spreading, 

 hooked extremities. 



When full-fed the larva changes colour to a deep 

 rosy-pink on the back, and the belly is flesh colour; 

 this occurred with the larva figured on the 28th of 

 September, while it was spinning its cocoon, the 

 head and second segment still retaining the black 

 marks as before. 



