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was of the same colour but glistening and with the 

 tip black. 



In these larvae the subdorsal region bore a row of 

 very blunt wedge-shaped red marks, widest at the hinder 

 part, and pointing forwards, and a row of large roundish 

 or dumpy pear-shaped bright ochreous-yellow spots 

 slightly tinged above with pink (on the twelfth segment 

 of a longer pear-shape, with the stem pointing to the 

 horn) ; below these was another similar row, only 

 paler and irregular in shape from a fold in the skin, 

 these spots on each broad front ring being much 

 surrounded with black ; below these were a few small 

 white dots, and then the whitish oval spiracle; the 

 narrower hinder rings of each segment — whether in 

 the red wedges or on the ground colour — bore trans- 

 verse rows of thickly- set yellow dots; the puffed 

 region below the spiracles showed red interruptedly, 

 but without any dots ; beneath this was a patch of the 

 dark ground colour sprinkled with white dots ; the tips 

 of the ventral and anal prolegs were blood-red; the 

 anterior legs were orange-ochreous tipped with black. 



The variety which may be termed the red variety, 

 from the great quantity of this colour which it possessed, 

 had the first or broad ring of each segment of a black 

 ground colour, and the narrow rings of a bronzy-green ; 

 the wedge shapes of red in the subdorsal region 

 extended along each segment from their greatest 

 breadth at the last ring to the blunt apex close to the 

 broad front ring; the dots of yellow above and whitish 

 below, and the double series of large spots were as 

 described above; all the rings were abruptly inter- 

 rupted by the inflated and rather tortuous broad sub- 

 spiracular region coloured red; below this on each 

 segment came a pear-shaped patch of bronzy- green 

 dotted with white ; all the rest of the belly and legs 

 were red, but inclining at the segmental divisions to 

 deep ochreous or greenish-ochreous, as the above- 

 mentioned red wedge marks also did at the same 

 place. There were a few yellow dots at the segmental 



