110 [Octob, 
for about half the spot, and the tint of a robin's red breast for tl 
remainder, but owing to the position of the white portion so near tl 
segmental fold, only the red hinder part of the spot is to be seen, excej 
when the larvae is stretched out in walking ; on segments 2 to 4 thes. 
Bpots are altogether whitish ; immediately below comes another velvet 
black stripe, broadest at the centre of the body, and tapering conside 
ably towards the head, but less so towards the tail ; just above the fe( 
comes a greyish-ochreous interrupted stripe, edged on both sides with 
dark brown line ; the tubercles and short hairs are brown, the long« 
ones black. 
The pupa stout, reddish-brown in colour ; enclosed in a very sligt 
web of silk, under cover of a stone or piece of moss. 
LitJiosia griseola. Eggs kindly sent to me by Mr. Doubleda^ 
August 11th, 1867, larvae hatched August 15th ; by the end of Noven 
ber nearly half-an-inch in length ; full grown during May, moths ov 
June 14th to 27th, 1868. 
The larvse fed at first on withered leaves, especially delighting t 
riddle decaying sallow leaves full of holes ; but I saw them also eat 
little clover, knot grass, and various lichens and mosses ; early in th 
spring they attacked vigorously some slices of turnip, but affcerwarc 
on attaining some size, they fed away steadily on Lichen canimis, whic 
I have since learnt has been noticed to occur where the moth is mot 
abundant, and no doubt forms part of the natural food of the larva. 
When full grown the length is quite an inch, the figure stout ai 
uniform ; the head small ; all the tubercles tufted with stiff hairs, whi( 
are short on the back, and longer on the sides, with a few of ext 
length on the second and thirtenth segments. 
The colour is a rich velvety blackish tint above, dingy blackisl 
brown below ; the central portion of the back is, however, to be d^ 
tinguished as a stripe of more intense black than the rest ; there is] 
sub-dorsal orange-ochreous stripe, which being interrupted by the trj 
bercles appears on segments 4 to 12 as a row of wedge-shaped marks 
but on the 2nd segment there is no interruption, and on the 3rd tb 
whole dorsal area is occupied by a large orange patch, bisected for ! 
part of its length by the deep black dorsal line ; and on the 13th tb 
sub-dorsal wedges are replaced by two large squarish marks ; the hain 
are dark brown ; the head a most brilliant black. 
Some of the larvae had the orange marks very faint indeed ; an( 
two of them had no orange marks at all, except on segments 2, 3, ant 
13, thus presenting a good variety. 
