THE LARVA 
OF THE 
BRITISH MOTHS. 
VENILIA MACULATA. 
Plate CVI, fig. 6. 
Tae pupa of Venilia maculata is three-eighths of an 
inch long, thick and plump in proportion, tapering a 
little from the middle towards the head, and more 
towards the tail, which terminates in a knob with a 
central spike surrounded with eight fine bristles 
having their extremities curved round. Its colour is 
dark purplish-brown, pitted or punctured, and very 
shining, excepting the divisions between the abdo- 
minal seements, which are smooth, without gloss, and 
of a dull brick-red colour. 
The moths emerged on the 13th and 17th of May, 
1873. 
The larvee fed on wood-sage, Teucrium scorodoma. 
(William Buckler, May, 1873; Note Book IT, 10.) 
METROCAMPA MARGARITATA. 
ater @ vel hones) 
Larva nearly full-grown, measuring an inch and a 
quarter to an inch and three-eighths in length. Belly 
quite flat, on surface very wrinkled transversely ; the 
MOUs Vil. 
