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undulation. The spiracles are pale flesh-colour. The 

 head is of a paler tint than the green of the body, and 

 inclining to brown, and there are a few reddish-brown 

 freckles on each side below. 



May 7th. — A great change has come over this larva, 

 without its having grown but a mere trifle in length. 

 It has become thicker and plumper-looking. The 

 ground colour is of course green as before, but the 

 paler markings are deepened so as to be less con- 

 spicuous ; the area of the back is rather suffused with 

 dull purplish-red, as though it had run from the 

 dorsal stripe, which is now of this colour, but other- 

 wise as before. The triangular marks on each side of 

 it have disappeared, and the subdorsal region is 

 marked by a rather undulating faintly paler greenish 

 stripe, closely followed beneath by a darker rather 

 purplish-red suffused line ; the spiracular region as 

 before. The short tubercular bristles, pale greenish, 

 are only visible with a microscope, as also the minute 

 shn Greened texture of the skin. 



May 8th. — The larva is more generally suffused 

 with pinkish, and has just begun to spin. 



The moth, a female, from this larva, appeared on 

 the 1st of August. 



Several larvse, all similar to the above, were beaten 

 from maple in blossom during May, and sent me by 

 the Rev. H. Williams, of Croxton, near Thetford ; 

 the moths from these appeared from the 13th to the 

 27th of July, 1872. (William Buckler, July, 1872; 

 Note Book I, pp. 168, 169.) 



On the 21st of May, 1876, Mr. J. P. Barrett, of 

 Peckham, collected a number of larvse of Eupithecia 

 subciliata from maple flowers at Box Hill, part of 

 which he very kindly forwarded to me. 



Larva in length about five- eighths of an inch, and 

 rather stumpy; the head has the lobes rounded, is 

 smooth and polished, and is considerably narrower 

 than the second segment. The body is cylindrical, 

 plump and obese in the middle, but attenuated at the 



