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between the subdorsal and the spiracular stripe is 

 bright yellowish-green, having a meandering line of 

 deep red close to the spiracular stripe. The belly is 

 of a paler yellowish-green than the sides, with a central 

 pale yellow or a whitish stripe, and a very faintly paler 

 line than the ground is on each side of the ventral 

 surface. The spiracles are blackish, ringed with red- 

 dish, but excessively small. N.B. — The subdorsal 

 yellow stripes approximate towards the anal points. 



N.B. — The meandering line of red above the puffed 

 spiracular stripe of the larva is sometimes only a blotch 

 or two of red. 



N.B. — The yellow subdorsal stripes are bordered 

 above by a stripe of the yellowish-green of the sides, 

 but merge softly and gently into the whitish blue-green 

 of the back. 



The pupa is five-sixteenths of an inch in length, 

 moderately uniform in bulk, not very stout, wing-cases 

 long. At first its colour is bright yellowish-green, 

 bluish-green on the back, and the subdorsal yellow 

 stripes distinct as in the larva?.; but in a few clays it 

 changes colour to a dark olive-green broadly banded 

 across the abdominal segments with black, but the 

 subdorsal yellow stripes still remain distinct ; the 

 head and thorax are marked with black, and the wing- 

 covers are blackish-green. 



One moth appeared on the 27th of September, one 

 on the 28th, and one on the 2nd of October, 1872. 

 (William Buckler, October, 1872, Note Book I, 194.) 



Thera coniferata. 



Plate CXXXVII1, fig. 2. 



Notes on the respective Larvae of Thera simulata \_T. 

 coniferata], T. obeliscata \_T. variata~\, and T.firmata. — 

 The larvae of these species have all been described 

 before, but the object of the following notes, carefully 



