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dashes as above, but fainter. In others the pink may 

 be called purplish ; all have the ventral prolegs tinged 

 with purplish-brown, and with a dark dash down 

 them. In some, again, a darker green takes the 

 place of the pink dorsal suffusion. But in any case 

 the full-srown larva has a soft delicate look. 



Many of my larvae spun among their food, others 

 just under the soil, making a weak cocoon with a few 

 silken threads. The pupa is short and cylindrical in 

 figure, the eyes prominent, the abdomen short, the 

 tail covered with the cast larva-skin ; the skin polished, 

 the back dark brown, the wing-cases, antennas, aud 

 belly of abdomen bronzy-green. (John Hellins, 21st 

 February, 1871 ; E.M.M., June, 1871, VIII, 18.) 



Having had a further supply of the eggs of the 

 second brood of moths, I think I have satisfied myself 

 that the larvae from them do not feed up before 

 hybernation, at least when kept outdoors, exposed to 

 the weather. (John Hellins, 14th November, 1871 ; 

 E.M.M., December, 1871, VIII, 166.) 



ClDARIA MIATA. 



Plate CXLII, fig. 7. 



For the larvae from which the following description 

 is taken I am indebted to the Rev. G. P. Harris, of 

 Richmond, Yorkshire, from whom I received them on 

 the 19th of July, 1871. Ifc seems to be but little 

 known, common as the perfect insect is. 



Larva very slender, and about an inch and a quarter 

 in length ; the head, which has the face slightly flat- 

 tened, is of the same width as the second segment ; 

 the body is cylindrical, tapering very slightly from 

 the posterior segments to the head ; the segmental 

 folds overlap each other, rendering the divisions dis- 

 tinct ; on the anal segment are two short pointed 

 projections ; the skin has a slightly puckered appear- 

 ance; the ground colour is pale green, strongly tinged 



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