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a few silken threads, many interstices being left, 

 through which the pupa could be seen. The following 

 notes of a larva taken by Mr. L. Oumming, near the 

 Lizard, Cornwall, have been kindly furnished me by 

 Mr. W. C. Marshall : 



" The head and second segment and the anal pro- 

 legs all deep pink ; the dorsal line yellow ; the horn 

 red and rough ; the ground colour dark green freckled 

 with yellow, save in the transverse bands on the front 

 of each segment ; the subdorsal line yellow, but with- 

 out the row of roundish spots ; the belly yellowish." 



This seems the palest specimen I have heard of. 

 Nearest to it, and, in fact, intermediate between it 

 and my Exeter larva, comes one captured near Ply- 

 mouth, and described and figured by Mr. G. 0. Bignell. 



" The head and second segment dull pink ; the 

 dorsal line yellow ; the ground colour blackish, much 

 freckled with yellow ; the subdorsal line yellow ; the 

 subdorsal row of spots yellow with pink centres ; the 

 anal prolegs dull pink, the belly whitish-yellow, the 

 horn red, tipped with black, and rough/ 5 



Another larva, described to me by Mr. J. Gatcombe, 

 was much darker, and must have come near to 

 Fuessly's description quoted in Stainton's ' Manual ;' it 

 had the head of the second segment black, an intensely 

 black stripe all down the back, the transverse bands 

 black, and enclosing at their extremities semilunar 

 spots of yellowish-white on the subdorsal line; the 

 pinkish suffusion of the round spots being in this case 

 replaced by black, and so the usual outline of the spots 

 was altered ; the rest of the back and sides blackish, 

 irrorated with greenish-drab ; the belly also very dark, 

 the horn dark purplish. 



Boisduval calls the larva " polyphage" as it indeed 

 appears to be. I have heard of six specimens taken 

 on a vine. Mr. Cumming's larva was found on dock. 

 Mr. Bignell's was figured on knot-grass. Mine ate 

 fuchsia greedily, although the rustic who brought it 

 to me in his neckerchief assured me he found it among 



