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short and "black, the dorsal posterior pair of spots on joints 8 and ti a 

 little more prominent than the others. All the legs pale except at the 

 tips. Duration of this period 3 days. 



After 3rd Moult. — Length 1.30 inches. Color and markings about the 

 same as before, the lines separating the stripes not quite so distinct. The 

 head not* striped continuous with the body, but is black across the top and 

 down the sides, with a black parenthesis mark in front a little above the 

 middle on each side ; the rest pale. The head had these marks during 

 the last period. The first and second pairs of abdominal legs developed 

 so as to be used. Piliferous spots rather prominent, but concolorous with 

 the body. Duration of this period 3 days. 



After 4th Moult. — Length 2.00 inches. In color and stripes about the 

 same as before, except the color has more of a pinkish tinge. The 

 spiracles show more distinctly than before and are gray ringed with black ; 

 the stigmatal stripe or line a little more of black than the dorsal. The 

 black stripes on the head are mottled ; the one over the top of the head 

 reaching down the sides two thirds of the way to the mouth, an unmottled 

 black spot at the base of the jaws, another mottled stripe lower down 

 from the jaws back. This is lower on the head than the one that runs 

 over the top. Front of head and sides of face pale whitish mottled with 

 pale pinkish gray. The 6 ocelli on each side black. Slight fleshy fringe 

 along the sides. 



Mature Larva. — Length 2.50 to 2.60 inches. Width of head .20 inch, 

 the length about the same, width of middle of body .40 inch. The color 

 of body gray in nine more or less distinct stripes, three dorsal and three 

 on each side, the dorsal faintly purplish and the lateral faintly yellowish^ 

 the arrangement and boundaries of the stripes the same as above. The 

 posterior dorsal piliferous spots to each joint are more prominent than the 

 others, have a kind of horny look and slightly ochraceous tinge, all the 

 spots partaking a little of this. Stigmata black. Venter rose, somewhat 

 purplish with the dark spots in the centre of joints 4 to 8 and traces of 

 these in the others. Legs pale, spotted a little. Ocelli black, jaws blacky 

 antennae and palpi pale. Duration of this period from 6 to 9 days. 



Chrysalis. — Length 1.45 inches, of wing and tongue cases, .80 inch 

 these reaching to the posterior part of joint 5. Width of thorax .45 inch^ 

 depth of thorax .40, depth of joint two, .40; joint three, .43; joint four, .42; 

 joint five, .40 inch, from which it tapers in a cone backwards. The outside of 

 the abdominal joints punctured, with the exception of the last two. Wing 



