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through a series of prong-like marks, one on each 

 segment from the fifth to the tenth inclusive; the 

 space within the prongs more or less suffused or 

 filled up with darkish brown; on the anterior and 

 posterior segments the markings become merged into 

 the dorsal line in somewhat of a lozenge or shuttle 

 shape ; two lines of brown rather close together run 

 along the subdorsal region, the lowest being broad, 

 and a central line of broad lozenge shapes of faintly 

 darker brown is on the belly. The head [description 

 abruptly ends]. 



The imasfo from the first-mentioned whitish larva 

 appeared on the 30th June, 1874; it was a female. 

 (William Buckler, July, 1874; Note Book II, 69.) 



COLLIX SPARSATA. 



Plate CXXXVII, fig. 1. 



On the 18th of August, 1877, I received from Mr. 

 F. D. Wheeler, of Norwich, a dozen larvse of Collix 

 sparsata. They were of various stages of growth, but 

 in a few days the largest were full-grown, when I 

 described them as follows : 



Length nearly an inch, and of average bulk in pro- 

 portion ; head rather flattened above, but rounded on 

 the sides ; it is slightly narrower than the second 

 segment, into which it can be partially withdrawn ; 

 body cylindrical and of almost uniform width through- 

 out, tapering only a little from the eleventh to the 

 thirteenth segments posteriorly, and from* the third 

 to the head anteriorly ; skin smooth and soft, having 

 a few almost imperceptible very short hairs. Ground 

 colour bright pale green, the head pale brown ; a 

 green pulsating vessel showing between a double 

 whitish line forms the dorsal stripe ; subdorsal lines 

 also whitish, and there is another whitish line below 

 them, but some distance above the spiracles ; below 

 the spiracles is a conspicuous broad stripe, whitish 



