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lateral patch on either side, just in front of the black dorsal 

 spot. A broad, white cross band just back of the 3rd pair of 

 true legs. Head light gray with a black marginal line down 

 each side and above. The third pair of prolegs as large and 

 prominent as the end props. A row of small, middorsal, 

 rounded, connected white spots with black boundaries. As the 

 larva lies flat on the stem, it furnishes a strong case of pro- 

 tective mimicry. 



From April 22nd to 24th the fifth moult occurred. Just after 

 this moult, the larvae vary in length from one and a half to quite 

 two inches, possessing small, light-colored tubercles, each set 

 with a bristle and the entire body with a lateral fringe of short 

 setse. 



Head much larger ; the body a little darker than before but 

 without any black spots. Head with encircling band of black. 

 Both true and false legs light. Whole body with light and dark 

 gray longitudinal, irregular stripes or figures. 



In the full grown larva the upper lobes of the head inside the 

 black encircling band, yellowish brown. The ground color be- 

 comes ashen gray with pale, longitudinal lines, much broken and 

 irregular. The hump over the ist pair of prolegs quite disap- 

 pears and the enveloping spot is hardly noticeable. Larva quite 

 two and a half inches long. Between the fifth moult and ma- 

 turity fifteen of the fifty larvse died. 



The first case or cocoon was spun May the Qth, on the ground 

 between two leaves. Others spun between folds of paper in 

 the breeding jars. The first chrysalids on May I4th or I5th, 

 about an inch and a quarter long, dark brown on dorsal side, 

 red brown on ventral, abdominal rings, a whitish prunescence 

 covering the whole pupa. The first two images on June I3th, 

 the length of pupal stage being 33 days. The last imago on 

 June 2Oth. 



Eggs of Catocala car a began hatching on the 29th of 

 May. As in C. unijuga, the larvae are very small and slender 

 and exceedingly active. So much so indeed, that nothing short 

 of an air-tight box will prevent their escape. The freshly 

 hatched larva is light brown with somewhat darker head and 

 rear. About one-fifth of an inch long, rapid in movement and 



