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drical, but tapering slightly from the fourth segment 

 to the head, which is full and rounded. The last 

 three segments taper also a little to the anal tip. The 

 legs are well-developed, and the ventral and anal ones 

 furnished with sharp hooks. It is of a delicate pale 

 and bright yellow-green, the head rather pale bluish- 

 green, faintly reticulated with darker ; the very dis- 

 tinct rather broad dorsal stripe of pale whitish-yellow 

 is a little attenuated or thinner towards the head and 

 on the last segment ; the subdorsal line is well denned 

 only on the second segment, as is also the beginning 

 of another faint line below it ; those on the rest of 

 the body are very thin and faint, composed of little 

 short whitish streaks in a line with each other but 

 much interrupted, the rest of the green ground-colour 

 of the back, except the second segment and the anal 

 flap, being very finely freckled with yellowish atoms. 

 The tubercular dots are whitish-yellow, set in a ring 

 of unfreckled ground-colour or green ; the green 

 deepens a little into a softened line along the spiracles, 

 which are oval and white, delicately outlined with 

 black ; the spiracular broadish stripe is pale sulphur- 

 yellow, and exteDds down the front of the anal legs; 

 the legs and ventral surface are similar to the back in 

 colour. 



A day or two before retiring to earth the larva 

 becomes suffused with brown, deepening at the last 

 to a purplish-brown. (W. B., September, 1870 ; 

 N.B., II, 180.) 



Xylina conformis ( = furoifera). 



Plate XOVI, fig. 6. 



I have lately had the great gratification of rearing this 

 rare British species from the egg, and have figured the 

 larva at various periods of its growth. The eggs were 

 obtained from moths captured in Wales by a kind 



