LARENTIA OLIVATA. el 
deeper brown, and marked longitudinally with lines of 
darker brown; the dorsal line begins blackish on the 
second segment, becomes dark brown after that, and is 
continuous up to the fourth; then it becomes a series 
of dashes on the front part of each segment up to the 
tenth ; thence again it becomes continuous; on either 
side of the dorsal line come a subdorsal and lateral 
similar line, continuous to the end of the fourth, and 
from the tenth to the thirteenth, but on the intermediate 
seoments interrupted and turned aside by the warts ; 
in this manner the subdorsal line 1s pushed in towards 
the dorsal on the middle of each segment, giving some- 
what the look of a curved X, only that the limbs of the 
letter do not touch; the lower or lateral dark line is 
also waved in its course by similar obstructions; the 
usual dots are large tubercular warts of the ground 
colour, and furnished with stiff bristles; and on 
seoments 6 to 9 there are, besides, pairs of con- 
spicuous, transverse, oval warts paler than the ground ; 
the spiracles are inconspicuous, being small and 
blackish; the head brownish with dusky freckles, and 
set with bristles ; the belly more mottled than the back, 
and with traces of a central, and a pair of lateral, 
dusky lines. 
In its usual position of rest the larva keeps the 
head and thoracic segments all humped together. 
The cocoon is very slight, formed on the surface of 
the soil, under a leaf or stem for covering, and with 
particles of earth, etc., drawn in. 
The pupa is three-eighths of an inch long, the thorax 
swelling above the line of the back, the eyes somewhat 
projecting, the abdomen tapering off gradually, and 
ending in a small blunt spike furnished with two 
large and six small spines with curled tips, by which 
the pupa is attached to the silk of the cocoon; tiic 
colour is bright reddish, the abdomen deeper reddish, 
the spike dark brown. (John Hellins, June 2nd, 
1874; H.M.M., September, 1874, XI, 86.) 

