140 PAMPHILA LINEA. 



remarkably small and short ; it tapers also gradually on 

 the last four or five segments when seen from above, 

 and when viewed sideways the back then appears 

 slightly arched and sloping gradually to the anal flap, 

 and this is a trifle flattened and rounded off behind ; 

 the belly is flat and the legs are all well beneath it and 

 rather short ; the segmental divisions are very delicately 

 defined, also most particularly the subdividing trans- 

 verse wrinkles, which by no means arrest attention, 

 but have to be diligently sought for. 



In colour the head is of rather a deeper green than 

 the body, and rough with minute points, the upper lip 

 of a pinkish hue, is smoother and deeply channelled, the 

 ocelli black ; the body above is of a tender and delicate 

 light green ground-colour, without any gloss, and on 

 the thoracic segments the skin is besprinkled with 

 black points of extreme fineness, so that they do not 

 affect the delicate colouring of the green ground ; the 

 dorsal stripe is the darkest marking of green and is 

 very narrow on the second segment, and thence 

 uniformly wider until near the end, where it becomes 

 very gradually attenuated on the anal flap. This dorsal 

 stripe is of a darker, rather bluish-green, having a 

 stoutish line of paler green running through the 

 middle, and bordered outside in stronger contrast by a 

 stout line of green still paler than the ground ; the 

 subdorsal line is of the same pale green, but thinner ; 

 below, at a little distance, the trachea shows partly 

 through the skin and on it can be discerned the rather 

 prominent reddish flesh-coloured spiracles, below these 

 again, at a little distance, follows an inflated paler 

 stripe of almost creamy-whitish, extending round the 

 anal flap, which often hides the belly and legs from view 

 when the larva is in repose, but at other times, when 

 examined beneath, these are seen to be wholly green 

 excepting a transverse patch of white on the front of 

 the ventral surface of the eleventh and twelfth 

 segments. 



On tearing open the coarse reticulation of white silk 



