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tint as the young ivy-buds amongst which it was 

 found, and destitute of any markings ; but after- 

 wards, though it retained the same pale greyish-green 

 ground colour, it became conspicuously marked with 

 dark crimson on the head, more faintly on the second 

 segment, where there was a dorsal line of the ground 

 colour, and large crimson blotches on the back of the 

 fourth and fifth segments, in which dorsal and sub- 

 dorsal lines could be seen of still darker crimson ; a 

 part of these blotches extended transversely down the 

 side and round the belly on the junction of the fourth 

 and fifth, and nearly so on the junction of the fifth 

 and sixth; whilst towards the end of the sixth, 

 seventh, and eighth segments on the dorsal division 

 of each was a large and broad crimson, somewhat 

 blunted, diamond-shaped blotch, edged behind with 

 whitish ; at the division of the ninth and tenth 

 segments were three short and very fine crimson 

 streaks on the dorsal and subdorsal regions ; the 

 eleventh was without marking, the twelfth crimson 

 with ground-coloured dorsal and subdorsal lines, and 

 the thirteenth crimson, the anal flap edged w r ith 

 ground-colour, the front of the anal legs tinged with 

 whitish, which continued down them as a stripe 

 dividing a dark crimson blotch, from which proceeded 

 a small dash forwards on each side of the belly ; the 

 skin was soft and velvety, the head only glossy. 



The larva spins itself up in a cocoon about three- 

 eighths of an inch in length by about a quarter of an 

 inch in breadth, of a roundish oval figure, attached to 

 a stone, a leaf of the food-plant, or other substance on 

 the surface of the earth or a little below it, and com- 

 posed exteriorly of grains of earth, and smoothly lined 

 inside with silk. 



The pupa is plump-looking, about five-sixteenths of 

 an inch in length, and nearly an eighth of an inch in 

 diameter in the thickest part, namely, across the ends 

 of the wing-covers, which are long in proportion and 

 well developed, having the rays in slight relief; the 



