60 LOBOPHORA VIRETATA. 



thorax rounded near the head ; the eye-covers promi- 

 nent ; the abdomen rough with fine punctured depres- 

 sions except at the divisions, and tapering rather 

 sharply towards the tip, which is furnished with several 

 fine curved-topped bristles, the two central the 

 longest ; its colour is a dark brownish olive-green on 

 the back of the abdomen, with brown divisions, and a 

 darker brown dorsal stripe becoming reddish near the 

 tip ; the wing-cases are darkest between the rays, 

 together with those of the antennas and legs bright 

 olive-green, eye-covers brown, the whole surface 

 rather shining. (William Buckler, 23rd October, 1876; 

 E.M.M., January, 1877, XIII, 185; and Note Book 

 HI, 7.) 



Thera juniperata. 

 Plate OXXXVIII, fig. 1. 



On the 16th of August, 1872, I received several 

 larvae of this species from Dr. F. Buchanan White, then 

 at Eastferry, Dunkeld. 



They were feeding on juniper. 



The full-fed larva is nearly five-eighths of an inch 

 long, tolerably uniform in size throughout, cylindrical, 

 the thoracic segments generally a little arched when at 

 rest, and the head bent inwards ; the anal flap is rather 

 pointed, and shuts down between two rather blunt and 

 small points that project from the body below. The 

 head is greenish, more or less suffused with pink, the 

 anterior legs also deeply suffused with reddish-pink ; 

 the colour of the back, from one subdorsal pale yellow 

 stripe to the other, is a delicate whitish blue-green with 

 a faint darker dorsal line ; the spiracular inflated stripe 

 of yellowish-white is tinged in a particoloured way 

 along each segment, i. e. whitish, yellowish, and 

 pinkish, but in some of the larvas it is wholly whitish, 

 in one or two whitish at each end, and yellowish in 

 the middle of a segment. The space along the side 



