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to no very great extent ; there is a slight and inter- 

 rupted dorsal line, formed by two fine oblong dark 

 spots, edged with yellow on each segment, and a still 

 more indistinct medio-dorsal line produced by four 

 or six dark-coloured small warts, two or three on 

 either side of each segment, and each emitting a short 

 bristly hair ; the spiracular line is sharply defined, of a 

 pale ochreous, lined above, first with a fine yellow 

 and then a dark umber line, and below by a white 

 line ; the legs and claspers are pale ochreous ; ventral 

 surface a colourless grey, with three white lines. 



Tbe pupa is subterranean ; and the moth appears 

 in August, September, and October. (W. H. Tug- 

 well, October, 1877; Entomologist, November, 1877, 

 X, 283.) 



Heliothis dipsacea. 

 Plate XOIX, fig. 3. 



Greatly indebted for the help received from several 

 good entomologists, I here return my thanks to them 

 for all the opportunities they have so kindly afforded 

 me for studying the larvae of this species, and, indeed, 

 without repeated help, I should have chronicled 

 nothing but failure ; what with cannibalism amongst 

 the larvae themselves, ichneumons, and drying up of 

 pupae, out of eleven examples received at various 

 times I have reared but one moth, although I be- 

 lieve I have still some pupae of 1873 alive. 



My first acquaintance with the larvae was in 

 August, 1867, when one was found in Gloucester- 

 shire, feeding on a blossom of purple clover, and sent 

 me by the Rev. E. Hallett Todd; I then guessed it 

 to be a Heliothis by its spiracles and texture of skin, 

 but, as it eventually died, its portrait remained among 

 the unknown, for future identification. 



On the 25th of August, 1870, Mr. Harwood sent 

 me a similar larva, found in Norfolk, eating the seed- 



