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tender greenish-yellow, and the lines more reddish, 

 assimilating in tints to the young leaves of the food- 

 plant, with their reddened edges and tips; after- 

 wards, by degrees, the whole back of the larva 

 becomes brownish, leaving the under side still yel- 

 lowish. 



The length of the full-grown larva is not quite five- 

 eighths of an inch, the figure somewhat stoutish, 

 uniform in bulk throughout, but its habit of holding 

 the head a little downwards and folding all the an- 

 terior legs close up to it gives a clubbed appearance 

 to the thoracic segments when seen sideways, the 

 back of those segments being arched or humped up ; 

 the colour all over the back to near the spiracles is of 

 a rather deep brownish-red, with a very fine dorsal and 

 subdorsal line of blackish-red ; along the spiracular 

 region is a broad, brilliant yellow stripe, separated on 

 the thoracic segments from the red above by a black 

 edging, but this only appears faintly at the segmental 

 folds for the rest of its length ; this broad yellow 

 stripe is blotched at the folds between segments 6 

 to 10 with beautifully softened blush-like spots of red, 

 the black spiracles standing in the clear yellow spaces; 

 below this comes a line of blackish-green, very fine on 

 the thoracic segments, undulating in its course, and 

 thickening at the folds, becoming gradually tinged 

 with red, till at the tenth segment it is a red stripe ; 

 the belly is pale greenish-yellow with a central paler 

 line, bordered by darker lines ; the head is dull 

 pinkish-red on the top, paler than the colour of the 

 back, becoming paler still near the mouth ; the ventral 

 legs are pinkish-red ; the anal legs are brownish-red 

 like the back, with a yellow line down them ; the 

 usual dots are small in size, yellow, ringed with 

 brown. 



From the look of the young larvaB I was led to 

 believe that, had I reared more than one example, I 

 should have seen some variety of colouring. 



When I found my larva ready to change, I put it 



