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little in the last three segments to the extremity, 

 the head rounded and scarcely less than the second 

 segment. The skin of this larva is entirely without 

 gloss. Its ground-colour is a rather deep green, 

 inclining a little to olive-green, and thickly freckled 

 with pale atoms of yellowish ; down the middle of the 

 back, from immediately behind the head to the anal 

 extremity, runs a dark purplish-brown stripe or band, 

 widest along the middle segments, bounded by the 

 subdorsal region ; this appears like colour or a stain 

 over the green ground, for it and the pale freckles are 

 faintly visible through it ; down the centre of this is 

 a series of dorsal diamond and roundish oval shapes, 

 two on each segment, the largest diamond or urn- 

 shape in front, the oval one joining it behind, faintly 

 deeper in tint, and finely outlined with black; an 

 equally fine undulating black line runs on either side 

 of them in such a manner as to form by its enclosure 

 another series of diamonds along the segmental divi- 

 sions, a trifle paler than the central or dorsal ones. 

 The transversely oval tubercular warts stand on the 

 boundary just within the dark area of purplish-brown. 

 The subdorsal line is merely the freckled ground- 

 colour defined by a freckled faint line of purplish- 

 brown, and followed by two others, very faint, sinuous, 

 and interrupted so as to be but little noticeable. The 

 spiracles are of the green ground-colour, outlined 

 with black, each situated in a purplish-brown blotch 

 or slash placed obliquely along the side, and pointing 

 upwards and forwards. Along the base of these runs 

 a longitudinal thread of interrupted pale yellow freckles, 

 becoming whitish as it approaches the head, on which 

 it continues to the side of the mouth. The anterior 

 legs, as well as the ventral and anal ones, are green. 

 The ventral legs have each a spot of purplish -brown 

 on the side. The back of the anal legs is of the 

 same colour, and their basal hooks are brown. The 

 head is green, with groups of very minute black dots, 

 the ocelli black. The tubercular fine hairs are brown ; 



