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" in repose it always lifts up its hinder part," and also 

 throws back its front part till the back of the head 

 and segment 2 are quite bent over segments 5 and 6. 

 There are several varieties of colouring; one mealy 

 whitey-greenish on the back, with the dorsal vessel 

 like a blue thread, a subdorsal line of a faint bluish 

 tinge, the side below more green, the spiracular line, 

 which extends round the anal flap, yellow edged above 

 with violet, and bearing a red spot behind each spiracle ; 

 the spiracles black, the belly green with a tinge of plum 

 colour, and showing the usual ventral dots distinctly 

 of a pale yellow, the head smooth, green, the mouth 

 yellow with a black line, the warts on 12 bright 

 red, thoracic legs pink, ventral prolegs green with red 

 feet. 



Another variety had the head and sides of a pale 

 yellowish-pink, the back after 3 more whitey-pink, 

 with a darker tinted dorsal thread, and at the sub- 

 dorsal level a pink tint edging the back ; the warts on 

 12 full deep pink, all the usual dots above pale, carry- 

 ing short, stiff black hairs, the dots below with pale 

 rings, the spiracular line yellowish with the red spots 

 behind the black spiracles; the belly of a dusky apricot 

 tint, the thoracic legs red, the ventral and anal pro- 

 legs deep pink. I have had another variety of a lilac 

 colour. 



The larva spins a cocoon of fine gauzy silk, covered 

 with fine earth, &c. ; I measured a pupa 15 mm. long, 

 stout at the head and thorax, the abdomen tapering a 

 good deal, the last segment diminishing in a curve, 

 with a small straight spike tipped with four diverging 

 tiny sharp points ; the colour mahogany-brown, brighter 

 on the abdomen. (J. H., 29, 12, 86.) 



