CIDARIA FULVATA. 95 



ClDARIA FCTLVATA. 



Plate CXLIV, fig. 4. 



I did not know the larva of this common species 

 until the 16th of June, 1877, when, on the occasion 

 of an excursion of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union 

 to Sharlston, near Wakefield, I beat one out of rose. 

 Since then I have found it easily enough. 



Length about five-sixths of an inch, and of average 

 bulk in proportion ; head rather narrower than the 

 second segment ; it has the lobes rounded, and when 

 at rest appears to be notched on the crown ; the 

 notch, however, is really on the second segment, being 

 formed by an extension of the skin into two pro- 

 minences above the top of the head, and thus forming 

 the notch. Body of nearly uniform width, rounded 

 above and below, but the two portions divided by a 

 wrinkled lateral ridge ; the skin has also a wrinkled 

 appearance, and the segments are very distinctly 

 divided. 



Head and the ground colour of the body uniformly 

 bright pale green ; dorsal stripe composed of a double 

 grey line ; subdorsal lines of the same colour, but 

 more boldly defined ; a yellow margin extends along 

 the lateral ridge forming the spiracular line, and the 

 segmental divisions are also yellow. Ventral surface, 

 legs, and prolegs bright pale green, the posterior 

 segments yellower, and all the segmental divisions 

 yellow. 



On the 25th of the same month the larva changed 

 to a pupa amongst the leaves of its sprig of rose; 

 this was about three-eighths of an inch long, the colour 

 almost uniformly a dull green. From it an imago 

 emerged on the 13th of the following month, July, 

 1877. (George T. Porritt, 2nd April, 1880; E.M.M., 

 May, 1880, XVI, 276.) .'.....■ 



