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verse reticulation shallow, the top a little puckered; 

 colour, wheu received, a delicate pink. 



The newly-hatched larva has sixteen legs, but the 

 ventral pair on the seventh segment are not serviceable, 

 and those on the eighth smaller than those on the 

 ninth and tenth ; the usual warts small in size, and all 

 placed on little eminences, and furnished with longish 

 pale bristles ; the colour semi-translucent whitish, but 

 the back purplish, and the head pale brown, the warts 

 black. 



In about a week the legs on the eighth segment 

 became nearly as much developed as those on the 

 ninth and tenth, and those on the seventh increased 

 in size; the whole body became greenish, the back 

 brownish with pale central stripe, also a wider pale 

 subdorsal stripe with a brownish thread through 

 it. In about another fortnight the length attained 

 was three-quarters of an inch, the figure of the usual 

 Noctua type, tapering a little forwards from the fifth, 

 and the thirteenth sloping rapidly ; the skin soft and 

 velvety ; the ground-colour deep purplish-pink, dorsal 

 line ochreous-brown boldly outlined with blackish, but 

 interrupted on the fore-part of each segment by a red- 

 dish-brown triangular mark ; this triangle is met on 

 either side by a thick black wedge-shaped mark, below 

 which again comes the continuous bright yellowish- 

 white subdorsal line ; this line is thin on the thoracic 

 segments, but beyond them widens in such a manner 

 that the widest part of it on each segment is near the 

 end of the above-mentioned black wedges, and the whole 

 line is finely edged with black throughout ; the side is 

 similar in colour to the back, but very much obscured 

 by dark reddish-brown freckles, and with a short 

 blackish streak slanting downwards on each segment ; 

 the spiracles oval and blackish ; the subspiracular 

 stripe yellowish white suffused beneath each spiracle 

 with red, and delicately freckled with red along the 

 middle; the belly and legs dark purplish-brown, the 

 head also of this colour, with darker reticulations. 



