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is bordered for some little width on each side by the 

 plain ground colour. A sort of transverse band, also 

 of the ground colour, is placed on the front of each 

 segment, extending from the dorsal line to below the 

 subdorsal ; the rest of the side is irrorated with small 

 greenish-yellow spots which become more whitish near 

 the spiracles. On the lower ends of the above-men- 

 tioned bands on segments 4 to 12, and just in the 

 region of the well-defined, greenish-yellow, freckled, 

 subdorsal line (in fact, strung on it like beads on a 

 string), is a row of nine large, roundish, lemon-yellow 

 spots tinged in the upper part with pink ; these are 

 made all the more conspicuous from being delicately 

 bordered with black, and have also two largish spots 

 of black on their upper border. On segment 3 

 there is no spot, but only the subdorsal line. The 

 spiracles are ochreous yellow, tinged with pink; just 

 below them is an inflated and puckered stripe, yellow 

 on the second segment but whitish on all the rest, and 

 interrupted just behind the middle of each segment by 

 a large round spot of pink, slightly tinged with olive ; 

 the belly also pinkish ; the anterior legs black ; the 

 ventral prolegs pinkish- white, tipped in front with a 

 spot of black ; the anal prolegs black, a pink edge at 

 the side of the anal flap. I have called the subdorsal 

 spots roundish, but in reality the shape is somewhat 

 that of a dumpy pear with the short stem pointing 

 forwards and upwards, whilst the last spot in the 

 row, that on segment 12, may be described as of an 

 elongated pear- shape, with the point directed back- 

 wards and upwards towards the horn. 



Unfortunately I did not examine the pupa with a 

 view to description, but I saw that it was long, of a 

 light brown colour, with the last two segments darker 

 brown, the anal spike strong and sharply pointed, but 

 with no other projection to break the outline. It was 

 placed on the surface of the earth, and the cocoon 

 was but slight, being formed of a few bits of earth 

 and withered fuchsia flowers just tacked together with 



