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warrant specific separation. Cinereoides is the California form of the 

 species, of which cinerea is the eastern form. The marked difference in 

 the colour between the two is the same as in other species which are 

 found from the Atlantic to the Pacific, as for example Triptogofi tnodesta 

 Harr., and its variety or form Occident alts Hy. Edw. I shall refer more 

 fully in another place to the larval stages of cinereoides. 



PREPARATORY STAGES OF TOLYPE VELLEDA, STOLE. 



BY G. H. FRENCH, CARBONDALE, ILL. 



Egg. — Cylindrical, ends rounded ; .06 inch long by .04 inch in diameter, 

 smooth. Colour chestnut-brown. Duration of this period about 195 



days. 



Young larva. — Length .15 inch ; cylindrical, a little larger at anterior 

 part; each joint with six tubercles from which arise spreading hairs, 

 varying in length from short ones, that are not longer than the diameter 

 of the body to those that are as long as the body, the two kinds distributed 

 over the whole body ; the short ones white and long ones grey ; the 

 longest hairs at the anterior and posterior parts of the body a little longer 

 than the long ones on the middle ; colour grey, black. Duration of this 

 period three days. 



After I St moult. — Length .22 inch. Colour lead gray; a dorsal line 

 of this colour bordered each side by a pale yellow, not clearly defined, line 

 that is more or less obsolete on the thoracic joints ; a subdorsal line of 

 orange-yellow spots, connected by a pale yellow line ; two lateral lines of 

 pale yellow ; tubercles small, black, those on joint 2 make a sort of collar 

 for the head ; hairs pale ; legs and venter pale. Duration of this period 

 four days. 



After 2nd moult. — Length. 2 5 inch. Much as in the preceding period ; 

 mostly lead colour on the back ; dorsal line blackish with a whitish line 

 each side of it ; subdorsal line yellow, somewhat orange where the orange 

 blotches were before, and paler between, but this time a continuous line ; 

 below this a whitish line and still lower two pale yellow lines, the separating 

 lead line wider than the yellow, the lead line containing the stigmata ; the 

 ground colour on the sides almost black. There are four tubercles to each 



