222 HOMCEOSoJVIA BIN2EVELLA. 



HOMCEOSOMA BINJIVELLA. 



Plate CLVII, fig. 4. 



On the 20th of August, 1875, I received from Mr. 

 C. G. Barrett, then at Pembroke, two larvae he had 

 found in flower-heads of Gar dims tenuiflorus and 

 C. lanceolatus. 



The full-grown larva is half an inch in length,, 

 plump in character, tapering from the third segment 

 to the head, and still more behind from the tenth to 

 the anal tip. The legs are small, and all are placed 

 much beneath the body. The divisions of the seg- 

 ments, and transverse wrinkle on each of them on the 

 back, with others on the sides, are all deeply cut. The 

 head is reddish -brown and shining. The second seg- 

 ment bears a shining reddish-brown plate, with a pale 

 central line and blackish spots on either side. The 

 anal segment has a shining brown plate on the anal 

 tip, and a similar transverse patch in front of it. The 

 ground colour of the rest of the back and sides is a 

 whitish flesh tint, that of the belly bluish greenish 

 white : the dorsal stripe is pink ; a broad pink band is 

 on the side ; beneath this on the pale ground are the 

 black spiracles, and beneath each of them is a small 

 pink dasli ; the minute brown tubercular dots on the 

 whitish back are in line with each other and close 

 to the side stripe or band, each with a fine hair; 

 these dots are scattered about the larva in the usual 

 situations. The skin is smooth without gloss ; in the 

 full-fed example the ground of the anterior segments 

 is tinged with a bluish-green tint like the belly, the 

 pink stripes are more of a purplish pink, the brown 

 plates darker brown. 



One of these died, the other spun itself up in a tough 

 greyish-brown cocoon three-eighths of an inch long> 

 three-sixteenths wide, to the side of its cage, and 

 finding the moth did not emerge I tore the cocoon 



