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The ground colour of the back varies— being pale grey, whitish- 
'ey, or white ; and the colour of the sides and belly is grey, brownish- 
'ey, or greenish-grey ; there is a sub-dorsal stripe of black, separating 
le white back from the grey sides, and itself interrupted by one of the 
ndev pair of tubercles on the back of each segment ; down the centre 
' the back run two black lines, which represent the dorsal stripe, ap- 
taring united at the hinder end of aU the segments, as well as on the 
3nt of all, except the last four, and interrupted through the middle of 
e others ; and between these lines and the sub-dorsal stripe comes 
other fine black line on the hinder half of each segment; on the 4th 
?ment the space between the dorsal lines is fiUed up ^vith black, form- 
y a conspicuous lozenge-shaped mark; on the 8th segment is another 
ick mark, but triangular in outline; and on the 9th segment the sub- 
rsal black stripe is interrupted by a white spot, which extends some- 
lat into the grey colour of the side ; and along the side run two dark 
jwnish interrupted lines ; the head is dark brownish-grey, lobed and 
ckled with black ; the tubercles are grey or brownish-grey, and the 
'ts of hair growing from them are of the same tint. 
Lifhosia aureola. The larva received on 1 9th August feeding upon 
lens attached to oak. 
This larva is very active in its habits ; not yet mature, being but 
le more than five-eighths of an inch in length, rather slender, and of 
.rly uniform thickness, but tapering very Httle posteriorly. The 
ercles all tufted. 
The ground colour of the back is white, but this appears only as 
p white lines separating the black dorsal, intermediate, and broader 
-dorsal stripes ; and this pattern is interrupted at the 4th, 8th, and 
h segments by dark brownish-black patches covering the back,' and 
the 4th and 12th looking almost like humps from the greater dense- 
5 of the tufts of hair ; and on the 9th segment the dorsal stripes 
absent, leaving the whole area as a conspicuous whitish spot ; the 
s, belly, and legs are brownish-grey; the folds between segments 3 
4 are white ; there is a white spot just above the legs on the 3rd, 
a white blotchy line similarly placed on the 4th ; the 2ud segment 
irk brown, with a reddish margin in front, and a longitudinal short 
ik from it of the same tint on the sub-dorsal region ; the dorsal 
srcles of all but the three dark segments are orange-red, bearing 
^■nish-grey hairs, the first of each dorsal pair being small in size, 
the second behind very large, so as to project beyond the sub-dorsal 
)e,on which they are placed, into the side, and behind each tubercle 
