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when viewed sideways, rather flattened ; divisions 
well marked; skin wrinkly; the usual dots distinct 
as minute raised warts with longish hairs. In colour > 
there are three varieties known to me: 
1. Ground colour on back dark purplish-grey, 
with a dorsal row of seven As pointing 
forwards on segments 5—Il11, and some- 
times an eighth and ninth A—but small 
and imperfect—on segments four and three ; 
these marks are outlined by very dark 
velvety brown lines, and of the space en- 
closed by them the apex is pale yellow, 
and the base pale rose-red, the dorsal line 
appearing here as a short stripe of deeper 
opaque red; on segments two, three, 
twelve, and thirteen the dorsal line is 
continuous and dark reddish; the head 
darker than the ground, and freckled; the 
belly dull reddish-brown ; the spiracular 
region tinged with ochreous; the small 
round spiracles blackish. 
2. Ground colour rather subdued green, with 
the dorsal markings rather brighter than 
in 1.3; the head freckled with brownish ; 
belly pale green ; spiracular line ochreous. 
3. Ground colour pale olive-green, but varied 
with a suffusion of dark rich red on either 
side of the back, most intense where it 
touches the pale yellowish spiracular line ; 
the belly dull greenish. 
The pupa, enclosed in a very slight cocoon on the 
surface of the soil, is barely half an inch long, 
smooth and cylindrical, tapering off gradually to 
the tail, which ends in a spike with a fine forked 
spine ; the skin very glossy; the colour pale golden- 
brown, darker towards the tail. (John Hellins, May 
18th, 1875; E.M.M., June, 1875, XII, 5.) 
