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Their ground colour is black, but more or less 

 sprinkled with ochreous-brown freckles on the back, 

 forming a longitudinal band bounded by the subdorsal 

 spines ; in the middle of the back is a dorsal line of 

 black ; on the sides the sprinkling of the pale atoms 

 is more of a greyish tint. Spiracles black, surrounded 

 with ochreous-brown ; the spiracular puffed ridge is 

 also ochreous-brown ; the prolegs and lower part of 

 the sides brown marbled with darker brown, the belly 

 of a smoky black ; both are pubescent, especially along 

 the sides and legs, head, and second segment. 



The head is black, studded with black blunt points, 

 and rather pubescent with greyish-yellow hairs ; all 

 the spines branched, brownish-ochreous, with black 

 points. The position of the spines is this : none on 

 the second segment ; the third and fourth segments 

 each bear four, the subdorsal and spiracular ; the 

 fifth to twelfth segments inclusive have each seven 

 spines, viz. dorsal, subdorsal, spiracular and sub- 

 spiracular ; all the spines are shining and branched. 

 On the thirteenth segment the upper part above the 

 flap has two spines, very nearly in a line with the 

 spiracular row, the flap has also two spiracular spines 

 pointing backwards ; indeed, all have rather a back- 

 ward inclination by degrees from the thoracic segments. 

 The anterior legs are shining black. The head is rather 

 shining. 



By the 18th of June these larvae had assumed the 

 pupa state. (W. B., Note-Book I, 7.) 



Vanessa uetio^. 

 Plate IX, ^g 2. 



On the 1st of June, 1874, I found a family of the 

 larvae in their last coats amongst stinging-nettles, 

 Urtica dioica. The first moult appeared to have taken 

 place on a small group of nettles, at their summits ; 



