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the larva will turn to a dark olive or brown ; or should 

 they be of a bluish-green slightly tinged with pink, a 

 pale olive larva will result. 



So far, I have put down only what I have myself 

 seen in the living larvse, but I may state that amongst 

 some figures most kindly lent me by Mr. Bos well 

 Syme, there was one of a black variety, with the sub- 

 dorsal spots of a dull crimson colour. 



Mr. Boswell Syme has had altogether about 200 

 larvae, and says " head always red," whilst Stainton, 

 in his notes made from living larvse, says " head pale 

 greenish," with the memorandum that Sepp's figure 

 came nearest to his specimens. 



The pupa I examined was one inch and five-eighths 

 long, including the short, curved horn or anal spike, 

 and moderately stout ; the head rounded and narrower 

 than the thorax, the anal extremity a little tapered 

 but otherwise tolerably uniform in bulk; the wing- 

 cases were close to the body, and extended as far as 

 the eighth abdominal segment; the last five segments 

 were rather deeply cut and flexible, the sides of the 

 incisions smooth, all the other surface granulous. 



Its ground colour .was a deep red, and this was 

 much suffused or sprinkled with black, especially on the 

 wing-, antenna- and trunk-cases, also on the back of 

 the thorax ; this last had, however, a dorsal line, and 

 the pieces of the thorax were outlined with the ground 

 colour ; the antenna-cases and the ends of the wing- 

 cases were relieved by a fine marginal streak of flesh- 

 colour ; the smooth sides of the abdominal incisions 

 were deep and rather purplish-red; the spiracles 

 blackish-brown. (W. B., 12, 10, 70 ; B.M.M. VII, 

 123.) 



