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A larva of this species, ovidontly in st:ii,a^ IV, was collected at Brownsville, Tex., by Mr. 

 Jacob Doll. Wo add a description of it. 



Sf(i</e IV{P\. Ill: tig. "2^0- — Length, :50 mm. The head is as in tlie fully grown larva above 

 described, but in the Itlown specimen it is not so green, and the lateral yellowish line is not so 

 distinct, though more yellow towards the base of the antennae. 



It differs in this from the last stage in the prothoracic tubercles being a little longer in pro- 

 portion. The eight thoracic horns are slendei'er, with dec-idedly longer spinules, wiiich are 

 mostly black, the tips rounded. The dorsal and subdorsal spines are much as in stage V in size; 

 they are white externally and pale reddish on the inside along the middle, the ends being white. 

 On the sides of alidominal segments 2, 4, H, and 7 a yellowish streak connects the subdorsal spines 

 with the latei'al reddish line. 



The caudal horn is now not so long as the body is thick, being a little shorter in proportion 

 than in the fully grown larva: it is erect, thick at the base, and the rather crowded spinules 

 bear long seta'. 



The suranal plate does not bear on the edge so many or so crowded tubercles .as in the tinal 

 stage (fig. 'IJ). The integument Ijears a few scattered mimite white tubercles, but not nearly 

 so many as after the last molt. 



A lateral dull Venetian red line, shaded on tiie lower side with yellow. The general hue of 

 the blown specimen is yellowish green. 



Two specimens from Tucson, Ariz., collected by Charles Bendire, and now in the ^Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass., were compared with the San Antonio blown larva. 

 They agree with it in the slenderness of the dorsal and subdorsal abdominal spines, and in the 

 numerous secondary tubercles or granulations on the sides of the segments. The eight thoracic 

 horns and the caudal horn are nearly identical, though the spinules on the latter are slightly 

 shorter than in the San Antonio example. There seems no doul)t at all that the larvaj from these 

 two localities are of the same species. 



Of the two Tucson larvjv one has more lateral secondar}- tubercles than the other. 



In the Tucson larvw the thoracic and caudal horns are decidedly cherry red, with the tips 

 IJaler. 



In two examples from Brownsville there is some v^ariation in the size and length of the spines 

 of abdominal segments 1-7. The caudal horn is a little shorter than in the U. S. National 

 Museum specimen, as are the dorsal alidominal spines. 



The suranal plate is the same in the size and number of the tubercles. The two Brownsville 

 examples differ among themselves, the dorsal and caudal horns being shorter in one than the 

 other. 



The larva of stage IV is represented on PI. Ill, fig. 2«;,also the details of the armature on 

 trunk segments 1-6, on PI. XLIX. tigs. 2; the caudal horn and suranal plate at tig. 2d. Figs. 

 2«, 2J, and '2c represent the armature of the last stage; 2^ a tergal view of the suranal plate. 



^DP^LOCEPH^L.A. BOISDTJV^LII Douinet. 



Adelocephala boisduvalii Doumet, Eevue et Mag. Zool., 1859, p. 266 (<J). 

 Othorene mexicana BoisD., Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, XV, p. 84. 



Adelocephala boisdwnUi Drice, Biol. Centr. Amer. Het., I, p. 171. June, 1886. — I'l. — , tig. — . Kirby, 8yn. 

 Cat. Lep. Het., I, p. 741. 1892. 



Imago. — 1 $ . A large species, larger than A. hoge!, with the apex of the fore wings more 

 acute, the costa straight, the outer edge less full, more oblique than in ^-1. hinecta and A. huge!. 

 The antennfe are slighth' wider than in hiigel; about 20 pairs of pectinations, and 25 short ones 

 on the filiform tip. Head, body, and wings uniformly Ijright lemon yellow, with no dark spots 

 or stigma. Fore wings with no distinct basal line; the e.xtradiscal line very oblique, not wavy, 

 narrow, brown, and ending on the apex of the wing. Two discal spots, snow-white, the hinder 

 one subtriangular or distinctly triangular; the anterior spot smaller (nearly obsolete in my 

 example). The base of the fore wings is a little pinkish, and the fringe is pale lilac on the outer 

 and inner edges. 



