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I Bisefata — obtusely oval in outline, not quite cylindrical, but rather 
depressed ; irregularly covered w^ith fine shallow reticulation ; colour 
salmon-pink, with large spots of deeper tint. 
Lnmutata—a, long cylindrical shape, flat at one end, more conical 
at the other, strongly ribbed, with transverse reticulation ; colour pale 
buff, speckled with strawberry-pink. 
JmiVrtrm— somewhat pear-shaped, but flattened at the smaller end ; 
strongly ribbed, and irregularly reticulated between ; colour glistening 
white, with small blotches of delicate pink. 
The larva of holosericata belongs to the shorter type of Aeidalia, 
and is perhaps the plainest in dress of all this very plain family. When 
full-grown, the length is a little over half-an-inch, in figure tapering 
considerably towards the head, which is small and notched, tucked 
under when at rest, thrown forward when in motion ; skin most wonder- 
Eully wrinkled and warted, the warts being on the wrinkles, and so 
irranged that they form on the back a double ridge on each segment, 
which contracts to a single median ridge at each fold, and another more 
prominent ridge at the spiracles ; the segmental divisions very decidedly 
eleft ; bristles short and clubbed : the larva feels very stiflt" and firm ; 
when disturbed it curls in the front segments in the same plane with 
bhe rest of the body, and not on one side, as the longer Acidalice do. 
En colour it varies little throughout its growth, being generally a very 
muddy reddish-brown, but just after moulting almost black, the mark- 
ings few and indistinct : the hinder segments are somewhat paler than 
the rest of the body, the segmental folds are darker : there is a paler 
dorsal line edged with black threads, which show most distinctly on 
bhe hind segments ; and the dorsal ridges are paler than the ground. 
When full-fed the larvae retired into some sandy soil to undergo 
bheir pupation. 
Interjectaria. — This is also one of the short, stift' larvjB, in figure 
much like holosericata. When full-grown, length about half-an-inch ; 
tapering towards head, which is small, notched, and moveable : skin 
very rugose, and ridged with warts not quite so prominent as those of 
holosericata ; bristles slightly clubbed. Colour a brownish -grey, hinder 
segments paler ; a pale dorsal line with dark edges interrupted at the 
four middle folds by a whitish dot, behind which comes a black X, the 
arms of which reach beyond the dorsal ridges of warts ; the spiracular 
ridge is paler than the ground, below it some oblique blackish dashes. 
Pupa in a cocoon just below the surface of the fine soil. 
