148 EBULEA SAMDUCALIS. 



semi-opaque whitish-grey ; all the rest of the body 

 rather translucent. 



The full-grown larva is three-quarters to seven- 

 eighths of an inch in length, of slender proportions, 

 fusiform, the head in line with the body, the segments 

 subdivided by a wrinkle on the back of each, while on 

 the belly they are plump and well divided ; all the legs 

 are slender, and the anal pair extended behind the 

 body. In colour the head is of a pale semi-pellucid 

 watery greenish tint, having a faint tinge of flesh-colour, 

 the second segment similar, but with a broad dorsal 

 triangular mark behind of a bright and full semi- 

 transparent green, from which the dorsal pulsating 

 stripe of the same colour proceeds ; on either side of 

 this is a wider stripe, though much attenuated in front 

 and a little behind, of semi-opaque whitish green, 

 having a few small green freckles transversely near 

 the front of each segment ; the segmental folds are 

 yellowish ; below is an equally wide stripe of the full 

 semi-transparent green, somew^hat softened above and 

 also below, where the small round black spiracles occur ; 

 the belly and legs are of the same semi-pellucid pale 

 watery greenish tint as the head ; the tubercular warts 

 have a small green central eminence emitting a fine 

 hair; on the front of the third and fourth segments on 

 either side is a velvety black spot ; a few individuals 

 occur in which these spots are almost obsolete or ab- 

 sent on the fourth segment; the skin on the head and 

 on the plate of the second segment is like shining glass, 

 but on all the rest of the body it is like ground, glass. 



When full-fed the details of colouring fade gradu- 

 ally away, and the larva changes to a pale pink hue, 

 and then spins itself up in a cocoon of whitish silk, 

 Avhich soon turns rather brown. (William Buckler, 

 7th October, 1876 ; E.M.M., November, 1876, XIII, 

 133—136.) 



