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in their efforts to catch Trameas, always fruitless efforts, so 

 far as I observed. I waded at once to the spot. The strand 

 of eggs, possibly five inches in length, with a specific gravity 

 slightly greater than water, was hung between two horizontal 

 slightly submerged sedge leaves. 



Notes on the Synonymy and Preparatory Stages 

 of Illice faustinula Bdv. 



BY FRANCIS X. WILLIAMS. 



Mature larva. Head hilobed, ' pale yellowish-green, irregularly 

 blotched with black, leaving the clypeus and a space on either side of it and 

 on the lobes of the vertex of the ground color, genae obscurely darkened ; 

 upper half of submentum smoky-brown, lower half greenish : mentum 

 smoky-brown ; antenna; pale gray ; ocelli 6. Head with a few pale- 

 colored rough hairs. Width r.6 mm. Body nearly cylindrical, thickened 

 anteriorly, as in Papilio.but to a lesser degree, somewhat 

 appressed ventrally, segments distinct. Markings on 

 body of a very complicated nature. Ground color 

 blackish, median line broad and broken, creamy pink, 

 bordered by a gray band blotched with black, widen- 

 ing on the first four and last two segments, widest on 

 third segment and tapering towards the head. This 

 gray band is more or less crescent-shaped, on each 

 segment, making the pattern somewhat resemble a 

 chain of ganglia. Subdorsal to this gray band is a 

 black one, much broken in by gray ; laterad is a gray 

 band, subJateral to which is another black one ex- 

 ceedingly irregular. Legs and venter pale gray, a 

 broad purplish ventral line with spots of the same 

 color on base of legs, stigmata gray. Body adorned 

 by rows of lemon yellow tubercles, some fused and 

 bearing long, rough hairs, those above lateral line 

 blackish, those below pale gray with black bands. 

 The cut illustrates the distribution of tubercles and 

 Length 13 mm., width at third segment 2.5 mm. 



i. Segments 5 



and 6. 

 Kit;. _'. S<-i;iiii-iils 1 



and . 

 I lllice ftiustinttla). 



hairs. 



Described from living larvae. 



A caterpillar of rather variable shades, some being lighter 

 and others darker in color than those of the above descrip- 

 tion. The markings on the dorsum give the lame a charac- 

 teristic appearance. 



