Si: THE CANADIAN' ENTOMOLOGIST. 



£^ii;;' — Diameter, 0.85 mm.; height, 050 mm. "Shape depressed 



spheroid,"* ornamented witli deep, polygonal i)its, smallest and shallowest 



abDiit the micropyle ; micropyle in a rather deep depression. Base of the 



eofg Hat and smo.jth. Colour pale bluish, the raised network about the 



pits white. 



Lai va^ First Instar. — Length, a little over i mm. Slug-shaped; 

 brownish-)'e How, thickly covered, particularly laterally, with minute black 

 dots. A row of long, dark brownish, rough hairs on each side of the 

 dorsal line, extending from segments 2 to 12, one hair to a segment in 

 each row; another row of finer, shorter hairs laterad of this row, extending 

 from segments 2 to 9, the individual hairs caudo laterad of the corre- 

 sponding ones of row i. A fringe of more delicate hairs on the lateral 

 ridge, also a number of scAttered ones on tirst segment. All these hairs 

 proccding from tubercles of a shiny brownish colour, black at insertion of 

 hair. A hairless tubercle literad of each large subdorsal hair on segments 

 2 to TO, and another caudo laterad of this on segments 5 to 9 ; also a 

 pair caudo-laterad of large hairs on segment 10, corresponding to those 

 bearing hairs of second row on preceding segments. Cervical shield 

 shining brown, with some small hairs. A brownish plate on each side of 

 dorsum of segment 12. Some minute hairs on ventral side. Head 

 retracted, dark, nearly black. Later the colour becomes dull greenish, 

 and a pinkish dorsal stripe appears. 



Second ///.fAzr.— Length, 3.5 mm. Colour greenish, dorsal line dull, 

 deep rose, a whitish line on each side ; lateral margin light pinkish or 

 whitish ; head black. Hairs arranged as in first instar, with the addition 

 of a long hair on each side of cervical shield and several cephalad ; a hair 

 on segment 11 on the dorsal line, caudad of the two described in first 

 instar, and one on segment 12 cephalad of the other two. Plates on 

 segment 12 indicated by two depressions. 



Third Instar. — Length, 5 mm. Dorsum more convex than before. 

 Body uniform pale green, except for a slight rose-coloured dorsal line ; 

 cervical shield green, slightly darker than the body. A sparse covering 

 of whitish or brownish pile. Arrangement of hairs as before; plates of 

 1 2th segment indicated by two slight dej)ressions. 



Fourth Instar. — Length, 11-12 mm. Slug-shaped, widest at about 

 the third or fourth segment, narrowing scmiewhat, and becoming more 

 flattened posteriorly ; segmentation distinct. Body pale grass green, 



*Psyche, 1. c. 



