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of an inch in length. In form they were rather 
slender, somewhat flattened, and tapering towards 
the head; the head and second segment acutely bifid ; 
the anal segment ending in a pointed flap; the whole 
skin rough with fine granules. 
The ground colour was either a full clear green or 
a yellow-green ; the granules of the skin whitish ; the 
points of the head and second segment red; a purple- 
red stripe down the back, or in some individuals this 
was interrupted on the middle segment, and, with 
some small whitish dashes, formed five acute diamonds ; 
the subdorsal line whitish ; the spiracular line yellowish 
or whitish-green, in some specimens having in it small 
purplish spots on the eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh 
segments ; the belly with subspiracular and central 
pale lines; the true legs hght red. 
In habit these larvee were quiet, generally resting in 
an extended rigid posture. About the beginning of 
September they drew the leaves of their food together 
with a few threads, and changed to pupae, rather 
truncated in front, but slender and pointed behind; 
colour, a dull pale ochreous, head and wing-cases 
dusky, with a faint tinge of olive-green; a dark line 
down the back; the spiracles showing black, and two 
short dark lines along the belly. (John Hellins, 
K.M.M., April, 1865, I, 263.) 
JODIS VERNARIA. 
Plate CXV, fig. 1. 
The eggs are laid in July ina very singular manner, 
as first pomted out to me by Mr. Wright. The female 
selects a twig of the food-plant, Clematis vitalba (wild 
clematis or traveller’s-joy), and standing lengthwise 
onatwig deposits an egg on the rind, never on a leaf; 
the egg is somewhat longer than broad, and very flat. 
Aiter a short interval a second egg is laid on the top 
of this, and again, after another interval, a third, a 
