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bluish-grey, or greenish-white ; but the broad space 

 behind the base of the triangle is a bright full green, 

 varying individually towards bluish-green or grass- 

 green. Thus it will be seen that there is a broad 

 green band across the end of each segment. The 

 black marks on the back may be regarded primarily as 

 particular developments of the usual four spots, 

 varying in each individual, and more or less like thick 

 oval spots run together in blotchy marks ; that is to 

 say, each anterior spot is confluent only with the pos- 

 terior one below it, but does not unite transversely 

 with the others. In one variety the black spots 

 resemble tadpole forms united by the tails ; in another 

 these tails are thickened equal to the spots, and appear 

 as blotchy curves ; and in one variety these blotchy 

 curves are so thick and confluent as to include some 

 of the ordinary side spots, thus completely surround- 

 ing two sides of the triangle with a blotchy black 

 border. 



To conclude the description briefly, there is a yellow 

 spot on the spiracular region of each segment except- 

 ing the second ; the usual black spots laterally and on 

 the prolegs ; occasionally some fine, short, transverse 

 black streaks on the sides. The head bright ochreous 

 yellow, mottled with red, and spotted with black; 

 anterior legs reddish-yellow. (W. B., 1867 ; E.M.M., 

 IV, 116, October, 1867.) 



CUCULLIA GNAPHALII. 



Plate XCVIII, fig. 2. 



One larva from Mrs. Tester, found in Tilgate 

 Forest, arrived on the 26th of August, 1871. It was 

 feeding on the small lanceolate leaves of Solidago 

 virgaurea, the leaves just below the flowers. It does 

 not appear to eat the flowers. I figured it the same 

 day. It was an inch and three- eighths in length, of 

 moderate stoutness, cylindrical, though tapering a 



