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growing there and found five more of the larvse, one 

 or two of them full-grown. 



One of the cocoons I opened contained a pupa, 

 which measured half an inch in length and was rather 

 stout in proportion ; the thorax fall and slightly 

 keeled, as also is the back of the abdomen as far 

 as the beginning of the flexible rings ; the head, eyes 

 and legs, and antennas well developed, extending free 

 a little beyond the end of the wing-covers; the 

 spiracles, three on either side, are rather large and 

 prominent on the upper parts of the abdomen, 

 but those below on the flexible rings are smaller, and 

 as usual these rings are deeply cut ; the tip of the 

 abdomen is rather blunt, with a few minute points. 

 The colour is a light warm brown, rather shining. 

 (William Buckler, August, 1878; Note Book III, 

 27 and 58.) 



The larvae from which the following description was 

 taken were sent to me the last week in August, 

 1876, by the Rev. P. H. Jennings, M.A., of Longfield 

 Rectory, Gravesend. He had found them in that 

 district, feeding on the umbels and flowers of Baucus 

 carota. 



Length when at rest about three-quarters of an 

 inch, when crawling about an inch. Body stout and 

 cylindrical, the segmental divisions well marked ; 

 head polished, the lobes globular, and there is a plate 

 of the same polished appearance on the second 

 segment; the skin has a soft appearance and is 

 sparingly clothed with short hairs. Ground colour of 

 the dorsal surface dull dingy green; head and plate 

 yellowish-green, conspicuously marbled with intense 

 black; dorsal stripe dark green, broad except at the 

 segmental divisions ; tubercles raised, large and 

 brightly polished, intense black encircled with yellow; 

 spiracular region yellow ; on its upper edge is a row 

 of black tubercles, similar to, but smaller than, those 

 on the dorsal region ; spiracles very small but distinct, 

 also black. Ventral surface yellowish-white, legs and 



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