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Stage /. Head rounded, brown, a black shade over the ver- 

 tex and behind ; width .55 mm. Body slender, smooth and 

 vshining, sordid snioky greenish ; a diffuse dark dorsal shade; 

 a reddish baud subventrally, joined to large blackish spots on 

 joints 5, 6, 11, 12 subventrally with smaller spots on joints 3 

 and 4. Feet all black. Joint 12 a little enlarged ; seta 1 short, 

 pale ; tubercles minute, black, normal, primary ; cervical 

 shield small, quadrate, dusky. 



stage II. Head rounded, bilobed, sordid green, a black 

 line at the junction with neck and a blackish shade from the 

 jaw to base of antenna ; width 1 mm. Body opaque greenish 

 white, dorsal vessel dark; a narrow white lateral line and 

 yellow substigmatal one ; subventral region olive brown the 

 whole length. Thoracic feet, tubercles and leg plates black ; 

 anal plate dusky ; cervical shield not distinct ; joint 12 a lit- 

 tle enlarged, its tubercles i large, contiguous, not elevated. 



Stage III. Head green, a faint yellow line on each side be- 

 hind the ocelli ; width 1.4 to 1.8 mm. Body much as before, 

 the tubercles and leg plates green ; tubercles i of joint 12 

 large, at first concolorous, later yellowish. 



stage IV. Head higher than joint 2, flattened before, cly- 

 peus small, median suture a deep groove ; deep green, finely 

 mottled with white, a yellow line from antenna over lower 

 ocellus to back of head ; width 2.1} to 3 mm. Body slender, 

 joint 13 tapering, its feet weak. Skin smooth except tuber 

 cle> i of joint 12 which are high contiguous yellow tubercles 

 with a seta at the apex of each, (ireen, the back heavily 

 shaded with white, a broad dorsal baud, streaked on the an 

 nulets (which are (', divided by a greenish central line: a 

 narr.iw subdorsal and lateral line, faintly white. The white 

 shading extends between all these to a yellow stigmatal line 

 with a black dasli below it on joints 3 to <>, 11 and 12. A few 

 white dots snbvent rally ; feel green, the thoracic ones with 

 three black dots. In another example the stigmatal line was 

 narrowly bordered above witli black, below with red. 



Mage I'. Head high. wide, rounded, green. thickl\ white 

 mottled; jaws and aline to back of head opposite spiracle of 

 joint 2 yellow, continuing the yellow stigmatal line of the body 

 and like it narrowly red -edged below. Width 3. J) to 5 mm. 

 Body slender, setae minute, joint 12 a little enlarged dorsally. 



