164 SCOPULA LUTEALIS. 



are deeply cut all round, or, to be more strictly 

 correct, have the appearance of being so, from each 

 segment being plump and rounded, especially at 

 the sides ; the skin has a semi-translucent glossy 

 appearance, and each tubercle emits a single but 

 noticeable hair. 



The ground colour is pale green ; the head pale 

 yellowish-brown with a few scattered dark brown 

 dots ; a conspicuous broad dark green stripe extends 

 through the dorsal area, widest on the second, third, 

 fourth, fifth and sixth segments ; on each side of this 

 stripe, and edging it, is an equally broad greyish- 

 white stripe, these together forming the caterpillar's 

 most noticeable markings ; there is also a fine greyish 

 line along the region of the spiracles ; the tubercular 

 dots are dark green, the hairs grey. The ventral 

 surface is uniformly pale greyish-green. 



In some respects, the larva reminds me very forcibly 

 of that of Ebulea sambucalis. 



In a week the larva changed to pale straw-colour, 

 and in another day had spun a loose cocoon in a part 

 of the dock leaf which had become folded against the 

 sides of its cage. Two or three days later it had 

 changed to a pupa, and I found the imago dead in the 

 cage on my return borne from a collecting expedition 

 to the New Forest on the 9th August. (George T. 

 Porritt, 14th August, 1877; E.M.M., October, 1877, 

 XIV, 114.) 



Since the foregoing was written I have found the 

 larvae in plenty on brambles, wild strawberry, Plan- 

 tago lanceolata, Ranunculus, and other low plants. — 



g! t. p. 



