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ridge, and forms with it a lateral hump. The ground 

 colour is a pale sulphur-green, along the region of the 

 spiracles running into a rich pink, edged below with 

 black, which blends into a broad lateral stripe of dark 

 olive ; the belly is of the pale ground colour ; on the 

 front segments are four dorsal stripes of a full green ; 

 the transverse dorsal ridges are of a velvety olive- 

 green, softening anteriorly into the pale ground colour 

 with a tinge of pink, and becoming black at the sides. 

 The hind segments are blackish-green on the back, 

 and much suffused with pink. The spiracles are pink, 

 six of them being enclosed in the black of the trans- 

 verse ridges. 



The pupa, which is enclosed in a slight earthen 

 cocoon, is remarkably short and stout, and much 

 tinged with green. 



From what is here said of the larva of G. sagittata 

 it will of course be seen that it does not at all follow 

 the typical form of Gidaria larvse, which is, as Stain- 

 ton's Manual has it, "elongate, slender;" in fact, it 

 is more like the larva of Pelurga comitata, though 

 far excelling it in singularity of form and beauty of 

 colour; it is, indeed, a very striking and handsome 

 creature, and the exquisite contrasts of its tints have 

 inspired my friend Mr. Buckler even to excel himself 

 in the magnificent figure he has taken of it. 



The discoverer of the larva is Mr. Alfred Fryer, of 

 Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, who found it in some 

 abundance in his garden last year, and gave a portion 

 of his captures to Mr. W. Farren ; the latter at once 

 guessed the species of the then unknown, but we did 

 not like to say anything about it till the moths ap- 

 peared ; and luckily this summer, about the middle 

 of July, Mr. Farren bred one moth, and satisfactorily 

 proved the correctness of his guess as to its species. 

 The rest of the pupae from the larvse taken by Mr. 

 Fryer in 1862 are partly, I fear, dead — partly, I hope, 

 remaining over till 1864. However, this year (1863) he 

 has again found it in his garden, and most kindly sent 



