110 ODEZJA CHiEIlOPHYLLATA. 



debted not only for a knowledge of the larva, which 

 hitherto has been most inaccurately described, but 

 also for that of its food-plant, which, being one of the 

 Umbelliferx, had doubtless been mistaken for Ch&ro~ 

 phyllum ; but experience proved that chervil could not 

 be the proper food, as young larvae obtained from 

 eggs refused it and starved. 



This larva, when full-grown, is nearly three- 

 quarters of an inch in length, cylindrical, stout in 

 proportion, and about equally thick throughout, 

 rather shining, and with distinct lines as follows : 



Ground colour of the back green or bluish-green, 

 becoming on the sides gradually paler towards the 

 spiracular region. The dorsal line is darker green, 

 and on the anal segment becoming dark red and 

 thicker, forming a very conspicuous mark. The 

 subdorsal stripe of a darker green than the ground 

 colour, and running between two fine lines of pale 

 whitish-green, which in some individuals are also 

 seen to be very finely edged externally with darker 

 green. 



The spiracles are red, and below them the green 

 fades into a whitish stripe, and it is forcibly con- 

 trasted beneath by a darker tint of the green of the 

 back, softening gradually into a paler green on the 

 ventral surface, where there are three longitudinal 

 whitish stripes, the middle one being the widest. 



The larvas had all retired to earth by the 8th of 

 June, and the moths began to appear on the 27th, 

 and the whole six were out by the 29th of the 

 month. (William Buckler; E.M.M., September, 

 1867, IV, 85.) 



Sterrha sacraria. 



Vol. VII, Plate CXXIII, fig. 3. 



In the September number of the Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine, at p. 92, Mr. R. McLachlan re- 



