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greyish; dorsal stripe faintly indicated by a dusky 

 spot at the beginning of each segment ; the subdorsal 

 stripe more distinct and faintly blackish. 



Third variety. — Deep dingy crimson on the back 

 and sides ; below the spiracles a greenish-yellow 

 stripe; the belly and legs, with head and dull plate 

 on second segment, rather paler than the back; a 

 broad dorsal and narrow subdorsal stripe of faint 

 blackish, but just at the beginning of each segment 

 quite black. 



Fourth variety. — The whole of the back between 

 the subdorsal lines a brilliant deep citron-yellow, the 

 sides from the subdorsal to the line of spiracles of the 

 same ground-colour, but almost entirely suffused with 

 dark red; the head and thoracic segments, with the 

 anal extremity, also suffused with red. The dorsal 

 stripe composed of two red confluent lines forming a 

 broad stripe, with blunt arrow-head shapes of red at 

 the beginning and end of each segment, and anteriorly 

 margined with short black streaks ; the tubercular 

 dots black, the anterior pairs being much the largest ; 

 subdorsal line black, and interrupted in the middle 

 of each segment. 



Spiracles white in semilunar blotches of black, and 

 edged below by a pale greenish-yellow stripe; belly 

 greenish, with a large red blotch along the sides above 

 the legs, the latter being orange-red. (W. B., 1867; 

 E.M.M., September, 1867, IY, 87.) 



On the 13th of October, 1868, I received from Dr. 

 F. B. White, then at Achilty, by Dingwall, Ross-shire, 

 some eggs of this species. They were laid in a chip-box. 



The egg is rounded but flattened at the base, the 

 top having a slight approach to being conical. It is 

 numerously ribbed and beaded, in colour pinkish- 

 brown and very shining. 



By the 15th of November they had become darker 

 in colour, and began to hatch on the 21st, and the 

 young larvae were all out on the 22nd. 



At first the young larvae were of a pale dirty green, 



