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horizontal. Both are pale green and indistinct. Lateral band pale 

 creamy yellow. Head small ; blackish ; legs pale brown with a pale 

 green band along their base. A well-marked dorsal ridge. Length 

 9 mm. 



Fourth instar. Length at commencement of instar about 9.3 mm. 

 Piliferous tubercles whitish; some smaller dark tubercles present. 

 At the end of the instar the body is pale green; median line dark green, 

 broad bordering band yellowish-green, oblique dashes distinct, yellow- 

 ish-green, the following sub-horizontal and horizontal bands of the same 

 color but more cbscure, the whitish spiracles running along the upper 

 edge of the latter band. Lateral band yellowish-white, ventrad becom- 

 ing indistinct pale lilac, present on all the segments, plainest from seg. 

 2-10, and of a pale green color around the last segments. A pale green- 

 ish-yellow band on four prolegs. A long transverse plate ( ?) on seg. 

 10, with some dark tubercles. Eversible sacs whitish. Long hairs on 

 each side of dorsum, some laterad and others on the sub-lateral fold. 

 There are some small dark piliferous tubercles especially anteriorly, and 

 the whole body is covered with a whitish pile. The larva is slug-shaped, 

 with the posterior portion flattened, the segmentation is distinct, and 

 the small black head usually deeply inserted into the apparently hori- 

 zontal first segment. There is a distinct dorsal ridge, and some depres- 

 sions along the sides of the body. Length 15. mm., width 4.75 mm. 

 There is color variation here as in the preceding stages ; the larvae are 

 sometimes greenish yellow, while those reared in tin boxes are more 

 brightly marked than those taken in the field (on which specimens the 

 descriptions are made), being of a more lilac tone. 



Pupa. Stout ; venter nearly straight ; dorsum rounded ; thorax and 

 wing covers pale grayish green ; abdomen pale wood brown, minutely 

 reticulate ; median line appearing through cuticle as a rough rusty- 

 brown line, broad on the abdomen, narrow on the mesothorax, where 

 it is nearly black, and wide again and dark on the wood-brown pro- 

 thorax, where it diffuses along its margin heavily anteriorly and lat- 

 erally. A very fine greenish line runs through the dorsal line of the 

 thorax. A latero-dorsal brownish-black blotch on the anterior portion 

 of the mesothorax, and just lateral of this a roughened shoulder blotch. 

 Another dusky patch in the basal angle of the primaries, and a more 

 compact one on the first abdominal segment in the angle of the second- 

 aries. Abdomen in strongly-marked specimens has the pale dorsal area 

 emphasized by the dusky subdorsal to ventral reticulations and blotch- 

 ings ; in paler pupae the dorsum is not well differentiated from the rest 

 of the abdomen. On segs, 2-6 of abdomen are latero-dorsal depressions 

 their centers ringed with black. Spiracles brownish, and on segs. 

 5-8 in pale yellowish-brown areas. A smooth transverse slit on dorsum 

 of the seventh abdominal segment. Head pale wood-brown with an- 

 tennae, maxillae and wing-veins peppered or blotched with dusky. A 



