38 APLEOTA HEEBIPA. 



posed of closely aggregated freckles and uniting much 

 with a central somewhat urn-shaped form of dark 

 similar freckles. These dorsal markings leave the 

 paler ground-colour both at the front and hind 

 margin of each segment comparatively clear, so that 

 each dark freckled shape assumes rather a squarish 

 character on the eleventh and twelfth segments, 

 an urn shape on the others ; a fine blackish spira- 

 cular line not much interrupted, bears just above 

 it, anteriorly, a blackish triangular blotch, and close 

 to the white spiracle on the blackish line above 

 mentioned which separates the dark freckly side 

 from the rather paler ground. Colour of all beneath, 

 including the belly and legs, of light pinkish-brown. 

 The subspiracular stripe shows almost a whitish upper 

 edge on the thoracic segments, but for the rest can 

 only be distinguished by its inflation, there being no 

 change of tint ; this is sparingly sprinkled with dark 

 freckles, which are continued below and as far as the 

 ventral legs ; these last are unfreckled ; a yellowish 

 whitish streak runs down the front of the anal leg ; 

 the belly is deepest in tint on the anterior segments, 

 with a transverse series of dots on the fifth and sixth, 

 besides freckles on all of these towards the head ; the 

 ventral feet with brown hooks. The tubercular dots 

 are blackish, raised but most minute, sometimes partly 

 ringed with the paler skin but only to be noticed with 

 a lens. 



This larva is when full-grown an inch and five- 

 eighths long, and stout in proportion, the stoutest 

 segments being the twelfth and eleventh ; from thence 

 to the fourth the thickness is uniform and cylindrical ; 

 the third tapers towards the head, which is very little 

 retractile within the short second segment ; the seg- 

 mental divisions and subdividing wrinkles on the back 

 and dimples on the sides are well defined. The 

 bristly hair from each tubercular dot is very fine and 

 unnoticeable. 



The last larva lay some weeks in a torpid state, and 



