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confused mass of both blackish and pale freckles 

 covering the sides as far as the spiracles, yet a zig- 

 zag darker series can just be discerned ; the head is 

 cinnamon-brown, streaked on each lobe and reticu- 

 lated with dark brown ; the tubercular whitish dots 

 on the back are margined with blackish-brown only on 

 their side nearest the dorsal line, while the dot above 

 each spiracle appears equally ringed with dark brown. 

 Each dot bears a fine blackish short hair which has 

 the appearance of a black centre ; the spiracles are 

 small and flesh-colour outlined with black ; below 

 them the sides are freckled with pale flesh-colour, the 

 belly and legs of the ground-colour, unfreckled. In 

 the largest of the three a faint appearance of dorsal 

 diamonds was suggested by the aggregation of dark 

 freckles about the dorsal line towards the end of each 

 segment. 



On the 15th they had moulted, and by the 29th 

 were an inch in length, their general appearance much 

 as before, their skin having a very mottled look, the 

 light warm-brown ground-colour being freckled both 

 with flesh-colour and deeper brown, in addition to 

 the blackish freckles about the dorsal whitish freckled 

 line; the black rings to the dots and the sides 

 present to view a still more mottled appearance. 



On the 18th of February, 1875, two of them were 

 found dead and stiff, and on the 14th of March the 

 last one was found dead, having some days previously 

 eaten very sparingly of bramble and grass ; it had for 

 some time been getting smaller. (W. B., March, 

 1875; N.B., II, 121.) 



Aplecta advena. 



Plate XCII, fig. 5. 



At the beginning of July, 1865, Mr. Doubleday 

 kindly sent me several young larvae of this species 



