CYNTHIA CAEDUI. 51 



I had not seen before, but here I had larva? both spiny 

 and hairy. 



I will here confine myself to. the details of one, which 

 will do for all the others : 



October 9th, larva full grown, about an inch and 

 five-eighths long, and moderately stout in proportion. 

 The second segment bearing only two spines, sub- 

 spiracular in position ; the third and fourth each 

 bearing four spines, subdorsal and spiracular ; but all 

 the other segments, save the thirteenth, bearing seven 

 spines, of which the middle or dorsal one stands a 

 little in advance of the rest, close to the front edge of 

 each segment. All these spines are branched and 

 bulbed at the base, and the subspiracular series formed 

 the centres of fascicles of hairs nearly as long as them- 

 selves. The body blackish above, with a deep black 

 dorsal stripe, and a primrose-yellow stripe running 

 above the legs, but hardly indicated on the thoracic 

 segments ; the belly and ventral legs deep olive-brown, 

 marked with golden- ochreous, generally much hidden 

 from view by the grey hairs diverging from around 

 the base of each sub-spiracular spine, which there 

 interrupts the yellow stripe before-mentioned ; a little 

 above the said stripe there is on each segment a slight 

 streak of yellow, sloping upwards to the segmental 

 divisions. The spines are dirty greenish in colour, 

 with their bases showing slightly pinkish. 



The spiracles are greenish-grey, with black centres. 

 The head black, and like the body covered with pale 

 grey hairs. 



On the 10th of October the larva above-described, 

 after first suspending itself to the top of its dwelling, 

 left its cave and crawled to the gauze cover of its 

 cage, and on the 11th suspended itself there, and 

 became a chrysalis on the 13th. 



The pupa was about an inch in length, moderately 

 stout, and of the usual Vanessa form ; its ground 

 colour was rather dark brown, the abdominal divisions 

 bluish, a narrow, interrupted stripe of ash-colour down 



