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encircled by a dark brown spot. Besides these dark spots, there are 



smaller dots and short dashes of brown on thr . particularly near 



Cervical shield very pale brown, inconspicuous, on the front of 



which are 4 large black tubercles, and 4 smaller ones on the hind margin. 



Iy cylindrical, skin shiny, appearing to be slightly wrinkled under a 



Tubercles lar r shiny, each be ne bristle. Bristles 



loc_ iii and v in a line, iv close behind 



spiracles, which iall and bla: Thoracic feet and prolegs 



concolorous with venter, plates on thoracic feet shiny black. The first 



two pairs of abdominal feet aborted. 



On the 13th June the larwe were quiet and swollen, ready for 

 the first moult. At this time the e pallid. By the 14th nearly 



all had moulted. 



Stage II — I . . 5 mm. Head 0.6 mm. wide, round, slig 

 depressed and bilobed at \ 2 .nish white, mottled with large and 



small blackish spots, the large spots at the base of each hair : ocelli dark; 

 antenna? pale : tips of mandibles reddish. Cervical shield concolorous 

 with body, and inconspicuous. Body above spiracles a dirty gray, some 

 specime as g reeni; r ace pale greenish. A pale whitish 



dorsal stripe is now apparent, also two whitish lateral stripes, one 

 just below tube: the othe: t ercie ii There 



also a substigmatal band just below spiracles, touching tubercle 

 Tubercles as before, black, shin bearing one black br - Skin of 



body smooth and sh:: Spiracles blac" small. Thoracic feet 



slightly darker th. -al surface and bearing blackish plates as before. 



Prolegs concolor. venter : lower edge of claspers dark. 



On the 15th June some vollen and ready for the second moult 



On the 1 6th nearly all moulted. 



Stage III — Length, 9.5 mm. Head 0.9 to 1.0 mm. wide, slightly 

 depressed at apex, pale green, mott as before, the large spots 



at base of each hair on face being black, and the smaller spots, which are 

 mostly on the upper inner half of cheek, being brown : mandibles reddish; 

 antenna? pale, darkened towards tips. Body cylindrical, dull greenish 

 above spiracles, paler green beneath substigmatal band. In a 

 specimens the colour of the body above the sp: a dull reddish- 



brown. Dorsal and upper lateral stripes whitish. The lateral stripe 

 apparent in last stage just above tubercle ii: y faint, but can 



be observed under a le The substigmatal band is a clear light 



