82 ACIDALIA OCHRATA. 
found they took no notice of the Lotus flowers whilst 
fresh, but only attack them when withering. 
By the 24th of August, when fully stretched out, 
they were nearly three-sixteenths of an inch in length, 
and already exhibited the tremulous motions for which 
this genus is remarkable. Their colour is now a paler 
pinkish than before. 
By the 3ist, six of the eight had moulted, and were 
now much darker again, and their pattern of markings 
could with a lens be seen much better; the dorsal fine 
palish thread is enclosed within two dark reddish-grey 
stripes ; the paler pink subdorsal stripe follows, finely 
edged outside only with dark grey, which is black just 
at the end of a segment, and at each end of the body ; 
the sides pinkish-grey; the spiracular line pinkish- 
white; the belly dark pinkish-grey, with a black sub- 
ventral spot on each side of a segment; very rugose, 
with short stubbly bristles. 
On August 20th, 1880, I received from Mr. Tugwell, 
of Greenwich, ten young Jarvee of this species, and, 
just as before descr ibed, they had been fed with flowers 
of Galium verum and Solidago virgaurea, and I placed 
them on the former plant in a pot for hyber nation. 
On November 2nd I received from Mr. Tugwell a 
full-grown example, fed latterly and still feeding on 
flowers of Crepis virens, seeming to lke them in a 
withered state better than fresh. 
The larva measures when stretched out three- 
quarters of an inch in length, and is of good substance 
though of rather slender character. Its ventral pawr of 
legs is on the eleventh segment; it is stoutest at the tenth, 
and gently tapers thence to ‘the fourth, then decidedly 
more to the head, which is of a full and roundish 
character, though notched a little on the crown, the 
lobes well defined, and broadest low on the Tooele, 
the antennal papillze long in proportion. On each of 
the segments between the fourth and tenth there areas 
many as twelve transverse wrinkles, so that it is rugose ; 
the segmental divisions are tolerably well defined, 
