324 EARIAS CLORANA. 



I should say that I bred the moths on the 11th 

 and 13th of June, 1876. 



When full-fed this larva was from five-eighths to 

 six-eighths of an inch long, with sixteen legs, stout 

 and thick in figure, thickest in the middle and front 

 segments, less so behind ; when it is at rest, and is 

 viewed sideways the back is seen to rise gradually 

 from the second segment to the sixth, and thence to 

 fall as gradually to the eleventh, then to rise again on 

 the twelfth and fall to the end of the thirteenth ; the 

 head fits into the second segment, within which it is 

 often withdrawn as in Cerura vinula; on the third, 

 fourth, and sixth segments occur pairs of rather 

 pointed tubercles, small on the third and fourth, con- 

 spicuously larger on the sixth ; again on the back of 

 the twelfth are two prominent tubercles blunt-tipped 

 as in Lophopteryx camelina ; the anterior segments are 

 more deeply divided than the others, the skin soft 

 and wrinkled transversely on the back as far as the 

 spiracles, as in L. cucullina ; the ventral and anal legs 

 are of thick proportions ; in colour the head is lightish 

 green with a large round blackish frontal spot on 

 each lobe, and a blackish transverse streak above the 

 mouth, which is itself dark brown, with the papillae 

 whitish ; the ground colour of the back is whitish, in 

 one variety pinkish, with a thin dorsal line and 

 broad subdorsal, lateral and spiracular stripes of 

 light rust-brown, the subdorsal stripe being broadest 

 and suddenly very much darker brown at the tu- 

 bercles on the sixth segment, continuing thence dark 

 towards the head ; the tubercles and front portion of 

 the subdorsal stripe on the twelfth segment are also 

 equally dark rust-brown ; the spiracles are black sur- 

 rounded broadly with whitish, and close beneath them 

 runs an inflated stripe of pure white ; the belly and 

 legs are very pale bluish-green, their hooks dark 

 brown ; in addition to the more conspicuous tubercles 

 mentioned the other usual situations have whitish 

 wart-like spots, each bearing a fine soft hair. Just 



