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a lens, scarcely under a half inch objective, but iv and v were 

 made out as very rudimentary hairs in line and remote, simple, 

 sharp pointed, not glandular. 



Stage II. Rests in a portion of the leaf folded back. Head 

 subconic, tapering above, with small vertical notch ; clypeus 

 reaching halfway to vertex with side pieces; smooth, dark brown, 

 the color reticulated, enclosing pale translucent dots; width i 

 mm. Joint 2 small; a narrow, black, transverse, cervical shield. 

 Body moderately thick, a little flattened behind, tapering before 

 to joint 2; a subventral ridge; segments with five annulets poste- 

 riorly. All very minutely and obscurely dark pilose. No anal 

 plate, but a subdorsal paired dark seta. Transparent, no color, 

 food green, tracheae whitish, distinct, their ramifications plainly 

 showing. Venter not different; thoracic feet small, black. 



Stage III. Head dark brown, finely reticulated; width 1.4 

 mm. Body as before, the minute pile dark. Skin transparent, 

 the appearance dark green from the food; spiracles conspicuous, 

 a little elevated. Head small, cervical shield narrow, black; anal 

 plate concolorous with body. Length 10 mm. 



Stage IV. Head very small in proportion, 2.2 mm. wide, the 

 larva over 30 mm. long; head high, narrowing above, slightly 

 notched, pilose, dull glaucous brown, somewhat shining, the pile 

 obscure. Body thick, tapering before and more abruptly behind, 

 segments 7- or 8 -annulate, annulet i very large; slightly shining, 

 minutely black pilose, the pile from little black tubercles. Cervical 

 shield narrow, transverse, black ; prespiracular tubercle black, a 

 white spot below it. Thoracic feet small, black; anal plate thick- 

 ened into a low pod, not pigmented. Body perfectly transparent, 

 stomach within dark green; edges of dorsal vessel, sex glands 

 (in ) and tracheae yellowish white, the spiracle on joint 12 with 

 dense radiating tracheae; subventral ridge and feet a little whitish, 

 but no fat granules or any pigment. Appearance blackish green, 

 but wholly from food and blood. 



Stage V. Head rounded triangular, notched at vertex, small; 

 white, caramel tinted, brownish at apex, a triangular black spot 

 in apex of clypeus, a rounded spot on ocelli and jaws black; not 

 shining, a little shagreened, pile obsolescent ; width 3.6 mm. 

 Body very large and thick, 50 mm. long, flattened at the large 

 concolorous plate, tapering before to joint 2. Cervical shield 

 obsolete, except a black dot at each side; spiracles large, white, 



