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itself in England may be a parallel case to this, the house sparrow, or some other 
bird, may be fond of the conspicuous larvae ; for I do not think it is cut off by 
climatic causes from our island on account of having reached the limit of its 
distribution, and the food plant we know is there. 
Of the winter of Hakodate I have made some notes elsewhere, and will merely 
remark that although it is much more severe than any weather ever felt in England, 
snow remains on the land three or four feet in thickness for two or three months, 
which protects both vegetation and animal life. Last spring near Fujiyama I took 
some snow off a mossy log, and putting my hand into the rotten wood felt it quite 
warm and drew out some half-dozen Carabi which had comfortably passed the 
winter there.— Id. : October, 1880. 
Description of the larva of Euclidia glyphica. — On July 2nd, 1878, I received 
a good supply of eggs, together with the parent moth, of this species from Mr. Blackall, 
of Folkestone. The eggs were globular, and distinctly ribbed from t he summit to 
the base : when first deposited they were bright pea-green, but soon changed to dull 
green, with, on the crown, a large brown blotch, and below this blotch a ring of the 
same colour. They began to hatch on the 10th of the 6ame month, but the young 
larvse were not all out before the 13th. 
The newly-emerged caterpillar looks large for the size of the egg, being about 
three-sixteenths of an inch long, is very lively, and when walking arches its back 
like that of a Geometer. Colour a dingy semi-transparent pale green, barred with 
dark bro wn, or nearly black ; head pale wainscot-brown and polished ; and there are 
rather long hairs scattered over the body. 
They fed up well and rapidly on both the white and red species of clover, and 
when from an inch to an inch and a quarter in length, I described them as follows : — 
Long and slender for the size of the moth ; body evenly rounded above, 
flattened below, tapering a little at the extremities ; the head has the lobes rounded, 
and is a little wider than the second segment ; skin smooth but not polished; seg- 
mental divisions well defined; the anal prolegs extended beyond the fold, and 
forming a distinct angle. By this time they have lost the true looper style of 
walking, but are still half-loopers, having no prolegs on segments 7, 8, 11 and 12. 
The ground colour varies from pale salmon to dull pink, some specimens having a 
strong yellowish tinge ; a distinct double yellow line, enclosing another very fine 
still paler line, forms the dorsal stripe ; the anterior point of the pale line on the 
crown of the head forms the apex of a triangular mark, the base of which is over the 
mandibles ; the rest of the head is very dark brown ; the sub-dorsal lines are dull 
bluish, bordered with smoke-colour, and enclose fine pale greyish lines ; below the 
spiraeular stripe is another irregular greyish line ; and below- this, but above the spira- 
cles, is another line of pale bluish, edged with smoke-colour ; the spiraeular stripes are 
yellow, rust colour, or pink, in different specimens. The colours, indeed, vary con- 
siderably in different examples, in some the blue side-stripes being scarcely dis- 
cernible ; spiracles black, as are also the tubercular dots, which, though small, can 
be distinctly seen with a lens. Ventral surface dull dark smoky-purple, with two 
yellow central lines. 
Most of the larvse were full grown by August 7th. Length, an inch and three- 
quarters, and the salmon and pink colours of the younger specimens altogether lost. 
