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short, radiating, black and pointed hairs. The belly 

 and ventral prolegs green. There being no white 

 band along the spiracular region they appeared wholly 

 black above ; nevertheless, with a strong lens I could 

 descry minute leaden-coloured warts glistening in the 

 spiracular region, forming as it were a band of white 

 specks. These also had on the black head a green 

 transverse streak above the upper lip. 



These larvae fed very sparingly on leaves of Scabiosa 

 succisa and of honeysuckle. By the 1st of May one 

 had died whilst comparatively small, but the three 

 survivors had consumed many whole leaves of the 

 scabious, and were very active in crawling whenever 

 the sun shone on them. This they seemed greatly to 

 enjoy, and to like each other's company, as they kept 

 constantly together night and day. 



The two largest had now their black velvet coats 

 relieved by the minute, round, whitish, glistening 

 warty spots, which were numerously sprinkled over 

 the dorsal surface as far as the subdorsal spines. The 

 sides were generally without any until close on the 

 spiracular region, where they were still more thickly 

 aggregated, and formed a lateral band of shining 

 specks, of which as none were confluent the effect was 

 greyish. The spiracles were oval and black, margined 

 with whitish. There were nine rows of black spines, 

 viz. dorsal, subdorsal, supra- spiracular, spiracular, 

 and sub- spiracular, the dorsal row standing a little in 

 advance of the others . . . (W. B., Note-Book 

 IV, 37.) 



Nemeobius Lucina. 



Plate XII, fig. 3. 



On the 3rd of June, 1870, having captured two 

 butterflies of this species, I put them on cowslip. 

 Four days afterwards I found that they were dead, 

 but on removing the cylinder which protected them 



