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the stripe itself is paler than the belly, yet not so very 

 much, being greyish-ochreous ; above the spiracles as 

 far as the subdorsal region the ground is neutralised and 

 made rather paler by something of the greyish-yellow 

 in it ; the dorsal is not very distinct, being a thread of 

 the ground between two freckly lines of dark greyish, 

 the subdorsal very similar in colour but less distinct. 

 Over all the ground of the body is a minute reticula- 

 tion, roundish in character and greyish in colour. 

 This is also on the under surface as well as the upper ; 

 the abdominal legs are a little darker towards the feet ; 

 the tubercular dots, of the ground-colour simply out- 

 lined with darker gvej, are in threes each side of the 

 back of each segment; the reticulation, which has 

 much the effect of freckles, is rather more distinct 

 near each end of a segment. 



On July 1 4th the larva, very well behaved and 

 healthy, ate only a little of sea-pink; on the 15th it 

 still ate but sparingly, and was evidently decreasing in 

 length and bulk; on the 16th this continued, and it 

 became active in roaming and rather irritable when 

 touched; and by the 17th had retired beneath the 

 soil. As the moth did not appear, I turned out the 

 pot on the 6th of October, and. found a blackish-brown 

 pupa with a cocoon of silk covered with grains of 

 earth, nearly an inch long, of an oval shape, but the 

 pupa itself was soft and dead. (W. B., October, 

 1876; N.B., III, 110.) 



Dasypolia templi. 



Plate LXXXIX, figs. 1—5. 



This larva, discovered by Mr. W. R. Jeffrey, has, I 

 am aware, been described by Mr. Newman, in the 

 ' Zoologist ' for 1863, p. 8788 ; yet, as it scarcely seems 

 to be reckoned common at present, a few notes on its 

 earlier stages which I have put together from the 



