34 PHL0G0PHQRA EMPYREA. 



PHLOGOPHORA EMPYREA. 



Plate XCI, fig. 4. 



On the 24th of February, 1874, 1 received from Mrs. 

 Hutchinson, then at Douglas, Isle of Man, four larvae, 

 which she had reared from eggs sent to her by Mr. 

 Jenner from Lewes, Sussex. 



The larvae on arrival were about five-eighths to seven- 

 eighths of an inch in length, and feeding on Ranun- 

 culus rep ens. They were all of a pale yellowish -green 

 with one exception — a rather bluish-green, — but all 

 rather darker green at each end. On the 21st of 

 March they had grown to from one to one and one- 

 eighth inch in length, and were very yellow-green, 

 except just at each end, giving me the fear of their 

 being sickly, though up to the present they fed, but 

 were very sleepy and torpid, and now again seemed to 

 prefer R. rep ens, rather neglecting R. Jicaria, both of 

 which plants, were growing in their pot. 



The dorsal and subdorsal lines, mere threads, are 

 rather whitish margined with darkish green, and above 

 the spiracles is an exceedingly fine hair-like line of 

 whitish ; the spiracles are very minute, of whitish 

 faintly outlined with black ; the tubercular dots, small 

 and whitish, are in threes on either side the back, and 

 on the side, and one on the hair-like line a little behind 

 each spiracle ; on each segment a very fine silky hair is 

 emitted by each dot, and several from the head, which 

 is smallish, pale green and shining. A smooth dull 

 plate is on the second segment. The ground-colour 

 of the body is very finely freckled with a deeper green ; 

 the belly is the same as the back; all the legs were green, 

 tipped with brown hooks. 



On the 24th of March I received from Mrs. Hutchin- 

 son a dark brown example from the same brood, an inch 

 and a quarter in length, which had originally been 

 pale green. Its ground was a faintly greenish-tinged 



