152 LIGDIA ADUSTATA. 
the face almost white, mottled with reddish-brown, and 
surrounded by a band of very dark brown, which 
becomes lighter in shade as it approaches the second 
segment; on each side of the head, in a hne with the 
spiracles, and adjoining the second segment, 1s a patch 
of very dark brown. ‘The second segment is smaller 
than the third, and the third smaller than the fourth, 
from which to the eleventh the body of the caterpillar 
is of uniform size, and then decreases. On the 
anterior dorsal area of the fifth, sixth, and seventh 
segments there is a small square brown patch, edged 
on both sides with white; this marking occurs again, 
but very indistinctly, onthe tenth segment. ‘The sides 
of the fifth and sixth segments are ornamented with an 
irregularly shaped patch of various shades of brown, 
interspersed with small white marks. ‘The legs are 
brown; the first pair of claspers, together with the 
skin-fold above them, are also brown, the latter 
variegated slightly with white; the anal flap and 
second pair of claspers are tinged with the same colour. 
he spiracles, which are very indistinct, are white, 
edged with brown. 
The caterpillars descended to the earth about the 
20th of August, and spun sheht cocoons just below 
the surface. (P. H. Jennings, September 7th, 1874; 
Hnt., October, 1874, VII, 229.) 
Singular Variation of the Larva of Ligdia adustata.— 
The bright green or light apple-green variety of this 
larva I have seen described once or twice; but the 
descriptions do not all give the same number and 
position of the red markings. Some larve figured and 
described by Mr. Buckler last autumn had—in 
addition to the brown head, red legs, and lateral 
blotches mentioned (after Guenée) in the Manual—on 
the anterior part of each of the sixth, seventh, eighth, 
eleventh, and twelfth segments a bright red elongate 
spot, bordered on either side by a black and then a 
white line; they had also thread-lke subdorsal and 
spiracular white lines. 
