

C|e faabian Entomologist. 



VOL. XX. LONDON, MARCH, 188S. No. 3 



DESCRIPTION OF THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF PAPHIA 



TROGLODYTA, Fabr. (GLYCERIUM, Edw., But. N. A., 



V„l. 1, Pl. 46; ANDRIA, Scud.) 



BY W. H. EDWARDS, COALBURGH, WEST VA. 



Egg. — Nearly spherical, a little higher than broad, somewhat flattened 

 at base and slightly depressed at top ; surface smooth ; crossed near the 

 top — at about one fifth distance from top to base — by two to four parallel 

 rows of raised points, about 22 in the full circle ; these seem to be placed 

 in vertical lines ; in some examples the rows are nearer together than in 

 others, and there is often irregularity in the number or position of the 

 points, some of the series wanting, or misplaced, in this last case lying 

 between the rows. Color pale green. Duration of this stage four to five 

 days. 



Young Larva. — Length, at 12 hours from egg, .09 inch ; cylindrical, 

 tapering from 2 to 13 on dorsum and sides, the end of 13 rounded ; color 

 brown-green ; the cross-ridges on each segment studded with small white 

 rounded tubercles, from the top of each coming a short, fine, white hair ; 

 there are also four rows on either side of large white tubercles, one to the 

 segment, three above spiracles, a sub-dorsal, mid-lateral, lower lateral, and 

 one below spiracles ; each with a short stiff hair ; each of the basal row 

 has a half circle of small tubercles, but larger than those over dorsum on 

 its lower side ; under side, feet and legs nearly as above, a shade more 

 green; segments 5, 6, 11, 12 are crossed by two or three rows of 

 tubercles ; head a little broader than 2, rounded at top, the outline that 

 of a horse-shoe, the front somewhat flattened ; color yellowish ; across the 

 forehead a broad stripe of brown, within which are two little patches of 

 the yellow ground, one on each lobe, and the stripe bends at right angle 

 and narrowing passes down each cheek ; in a curve about the top in front 

 six small tubercles, and near the suture two others which with the second 

 and fifth of the curved row make a cross row of four. Duration of this 

 stage three to five days. 



