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alimentary canal shows through as the dorsal stripe; 

 the tubercles are of a darker shade of the ground 

 colour, and each contains a black spot from which 

 springs a single short hair ; the spiracles are intensely 

 black. The ventral surface is of a paler shade than 

 the dorsal area; the anterior legs are ringed and 

 tipped, and the posterior legs slightly fringed, with 

 dark sienna-brown. 



All through they fed and lived in precisely the same 

 manner as does the larva of G. warringtonellus. The 

 first two imagos appeared on the 25th of July, and 

 the others continued to appear until about the middle 

 of August, by which time I had bred a nice series. 

 Every specimen was of. the pale bronze veined form, 

 and all were, as far as I could judge, exactly inter- 

 mediate between the ordinary white form of G.perlellus 

 and G. ivarringtonellvs ; so much so, indeed, that I was 

 puzzled as to which species they belonged to ; and the 

 more so as, on submitting some of them to Mr. Richard- 

 son, he was uncertain as to whether he had ever taken 

 the white form on the ground where he had captured 

 the parent of my specimens. On submitting some of 

 them to Mr. Stainton, however, he referred them to 

 C. perlellus. 



From the foregoing description it will be found that 

 the larva of C. jperlellus agrees closely with that of G. 

 'warringtonellus, and the rearing of it has not in any 

 way shaken the opinion I have long held, that the 

 latter is nothing more than a form of the former. 

 (George T. Porritt, 12th May, 1886; E.M.M., June, 

 1886, XXIII, 7.) 



