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had sent eggs) was more fortunate in France, and 

 succeeded in rearing several fine moths. 



The shape of the larva (after it has attained some 

 size) is moderately stout, cylindrical, tapering but 

 little at either extremity, smooth and shining ; the 

 folds and segmental divisions very slightly indented, 

 a triangular inflation round the spiracles ; the tuber- 

 cular warty spots slightly raised and shining, and all 

 the legs well developed. 



In colour the half-grown larva is of a dull flesh tint, 

 tinged with green beneath and at the segmental 

 divisions, but much suffused with a deep dull pink on 

 the back ; the warty spots blackish. When two-thirds 

 grown it is wholly of a deep but dull flesh-colour, 

 slightly suffused on the anterior segments with a 

 dull red. 



^he full-grown larva is flesh-colour, having the dorsal 

 pulsating vessel visible as a stripe of a darker tint of the 

 same. The head is, as in the other stages of growth, 

 brownish-red, and the mouth dark brown. The reddish 

 shining plate on the back of the second segment is 

 divided down the centre by a thin line of flesh-colour, 

 and is thickly margined in front (where it is widest), and 

 more delicately behind, with dark brown. On the anal 

 segment there are four brownish-red plates, thus 

 placed: on the anterior part above the fold of the anal flap 

 a central semicircular plate margined with dark brown, 

 and on each side of it at an obtuse angle a small narrow 

 plate ; the fourth and largest plate is on the anal flap, 

 and has its anterior edge undulating, and margined 

 with dark brown, its anal extremity ending in two very 

 small points. The anterior legs are brownish-red, and 

 the pro-legs slightly tipped with brown ; the oval 

 spiracles whitish, outlined with blackish. The brown 

 tubercular spots generally round, but sometimes oval 

 on the third and fourth segments ; on these segments 

 also they are placed in a transverse row on the back, 

 and end at the sides in a triangular group of three 

 larger spots. Altogether there are twelve spots on 



