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on the front of each segment, thickening towards its 

 end, and slightly interrupted at the fold; the sub- 

 dorsal line more or less visibly continuous according 

 to the depth of the ground colour, and may be de- 

 scribed as a line of stout blackish dashes placed at the 

 folds, sometimes connected by brownish streaks which 

 fade away into the ground colour about the middle of 

 each segment; on segments 10 to 13, the dorsal 

 and subdorsal lines unite to form a darker smoky 

 streak, which tapers away to a point at the anal ex- 

 tremity ; below the subdorsal comes a brown wavy 

 line ; the spiracular region is brownish above and more 

 yellowish-white below, these colours not being definitely 

 separated by a line; the black spiracles are placed in 

 open spaces of the paler colour ; at the tenth segment 

 the lateral lines fade away into the pale colour, thus 

 forming a strong contrast to the united dark lines on 

 the back ; below the spiracles comes a clearly defined 

 stripe of dark brown, followed by a broader one not 

 so dark ; the belly varied with yellowish and pinkish- 

 white, with two indistinctly darker lines along it ; the 

 head and collar yellowish, the dark lines passing 

 through them as freckled stripes. (John Hellins, 

 25th October, 1869 ; E.M.M., January, 1870, VI, 187.) 



Emmelesia blandiata. 



Plate CXXVIII, fig. 6. 



The habits of the genus Emmelesia seem to make it 

 such a difficult matter to get hold of the larvae of some 

 of the species that I feel more than ordinary pleasure 

 in being able to say that I have removed E. blandiata 

 from my list of desiderata ; of course it was not one 

 of the " unknown," for the food-plant, and a descrip- 

 tion after Freyer, had been given in Stain ton's 

 Manual, yet, for all that, I could see no chance of 

 obtaining the larva for years ; and now it has not 



