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like, smooth-skinned but not very shining, excepting 

 the glossy head and second segment. The colour of 

 the head is rich dark orange-brown marked with 

 darker streaks ; the anterior margin of the second 

 segment is pale or whitish, w^ith a thick black slanting 

 dash on either side of it in the subdorsal region ; at 

 the end of the thirteenth segment are two similar but 

 smaller black dashes ; the rest of the body above is 

 uniformly cool greenish-grey; the tubercular warts 

 are of a paler tint of the same colour, a little raised, 

 with a central fine darker dot having a very fine 

 shortish hair ; the lower part of the sides and belly of 

 a very pale almost whitish tint of the same colour. 

 The segments are very well defined and with two 

 subdividing wrinkles, the second wrinkle being almost 

 close to the segmental division and the first wrinkle 

 not far from the second ; only a very faint trace of a 

 darker dorsal vessel existed ; the spiracles are very 

 small, circular, flesh-colour ringed with black. 



The less mature larvse are darker on the back and 

 with the spots paler. 



Most of these larvae spun up amongst their food, 

 but one of them chose to spin near the edge of the pot 

 in a light hammock of white silk. 



The pupa lies within, attached by the tail in a 

 horizontal position. 



It was not quite half an inch long ; the head, thorax 

 and other front parts were well defined, the wing- 

 covers very distinct though not very long, adding 

 much to the thickness of the contour; at their ends 

 the slender abdomen tapers to a point with each 

 segment well-defined, and across the back of each are 

 two rows of simple teeth-like hooks, and a few fine 

 hairs are seen scattered over the surface. The colour 

 is black, not very shining on the head, thorax and 

 wings, but more polished across the middle of each 

 ring of the abdomen, while the end of each ring is 

 quite dull; there is a long pointed tip at the tail. 

 (William Buckler, June, 1876, Note Book III, 66.) 



