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and more towards the anal extremity. It had six rows 

 of black spines, branched, with short black hairs, viz. on 

 each side a subdorsal, a lateral, and a subspiracular row, 

 except as follows : the second, third, and fourth seg- 

 ments had only the subdorsal and subspiracular rows, 

 or four spines on each segment, the subdorsal being 

 rather shorter than the others; arid on the second 

 segment they were simple spines, leaning over the 

 head and curved slightly backwards. All the other 

 segments had six spines in the order before mentioned, 

 slanting a little backwards, and more so on the two 

 last. 



The head was black, shining, and hairy. The colour 

 of the body a dark shining violet-grey, thickly marbled 

 with velvety-black, the grey not very conspicuous, 

 except at the segmental divisions and along the 

 spiracular region, where it formed an undulating inter- 

 rupted line. The slender dorsal line black, expanded 

 in width near the middle of its course through each 

 segment, and was bordered on each side with a stripe of 

 bright ochreous-yellow, which expanded in width just 

 in advance of the widest part of the black central 

 dorsal line. The spiracles were black, delicately 

 margined with grey, and close below each spiracle was 

 a blotch of bright orange-red, connected below with a 

 thin line of orange- ochreous, that ran beneath the 

 lowest row of spines ; the belly and prolegs blackish- 

 brown. 



The larva continued to feed until the 9th of July, 

 when four or five of the rather large leaves at the top 

 of the plant appeared to be slightly spun together, 

 forming a kind of square tent-like enclosure, within 

 which the larva had retired. 



After the lapse of a week I broke a few of the silk 

 threads in turning back part of a leaf so as to obtain 

 a view of the occupant, and was much interested in 

 seeing a very singular pupa suspended by the tail to 

 the underside of a sloping leaf, the surface of which 

 had been covered with a circular mass of silk, thickest 



