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which runs a black edged drab stripe, which widens 

 out round each spiracle ; the spiracle is oval, black, 

 with a yellow margin situated just under each lateral 

 spine ; beneath the yellow the sides and ventral prolegs 

 are of a yellowish drab colour ; the anal prolegs tipped 

 with the colour of the others. The anterior legs b]ack 

 and shining; the belly of the same yellowish-drab 

 colour as the side, with a central stripe of faint blackish, 

 interrupted soon after the beginning of a segment. On 

 the back are scattered minute raised dots, which, by 

 the aid of a lens are seen each to bear a fine hair. 

 These are all yellow, and below the spiracles they are 

 more numerous and coarser and closely resemble the 

 glandular hairs of the stinging-nettle. The general 

 appearance of the skin is velvety, the head has a 

 shining black skin, but is so studded with whitish- 

 grey bulbous based bristles, that it looks greyish. 

 The colour of the dorsal spines is yellowish -drab, 

 tipped and branched with black ; the subdorsal are 

 darker olive, tipped and branched with black ; the 

 lateral and subspiracular spines are yellowish, beset 

 with black points and branches. A little beneath each 

 subspiracular spine are two dusky longitudinal short 

 streaks. The bulbous rooted hairs occur on the 

 ventral surface on those segments without legs. 



The butterflies appeared on June 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 

 and 24th, 1874. (W. B., Note-Book II, 66.) 



Geapta — Album. 

 Plate IX, fig. 3. 



On the 26th of April, 1870, I received thirteen eggs 

 from Mrs. Hutchinson, of Leominster, laid on a leaf of 

 stinging-nettle. . 



The egg is somewhat elliptical, standing on end, the 

 lower end, the largest, is flattened beneath ; it has ten 

 projecting ribs. In colour ix> is rather a bluish-green, 



