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ochreous, but much freckled or reticulated with dark 

 brown, especially along the sides ; the belly being 

 a greenish-grey without freckles, and also the ventral 

 and anterior legs, the head pale brown, faintly reti- 

 culated with a little deeper brown, the velvety dark 

 brown plate showing faintly the dorsal and subdorsal 

 lines a little paler, and bearing two pale dots on 

 each side the dorsal line. Beyond the thoracic seg- 

 ments there is on each of the others a dorsal diamond 

 composed of dark brown freckles thickly aggregated 

 together, and on the edge of this dark brown diamond 

 are the small white tubercular dots or trapezoidals, and 

 the other dot on each side near the beginning of each 

 segment, for they are in threes each side of the back, 

 though the trapezoidals are most conspicuous, as they 

 are either backed or ringed with black. The thoracic 

 marks of dark brown are somewhat narrow and pear- 

 shaped ; the subdorsal line is faintly visible, and 

 though very fine is seen to be edged with fine freckled 

 dark lines ; the space between this and the equally fine 

 or finer spiracular line is very thickly freckled with dark 

 brown. The spiracles are flesh-colour, delicately edged 

 with black, and are accompanied by a white tubercular 

 dot on each side and one above, in a blackish-brown 

 spot ; below the spiracles the surface is thickly covered 

 with dark brown freckles. The thoracic segments and 

 the three posterior ones are much suffused with dark 

 brown. 



It should be noted that each dorsal dark diamond 

 has a paler less freckled spot within on either side the 

 dorsal line. 



On the 1st of Apiril I noticed one of the green larvge 

 resting belly uppermost on a rather open network of silk, 

 which it had spun beneath the upper leaves of Ranun- 

 culus repens; here it has remained for three days. 

 (W. B., April, 1874; KB., II, 55.) 



