666 [December 



Pajia. 1.20 in. long, .40 in. broad. Dark brown. Head-case, darker 

 brown, rounded, corrugated, with an impressed transverse line border- 

 ing it posteriorly, and a medial line impressed interiorly and carinated 

 superiorly. Tongue-case buried, short, not separating the leg and wing- 

 cases. Antennae-cases in % , terminating very near to tips of the mid- 

 dle leg-cases — in 9 i opp. tips of the anterior leg-cases. First stigma, 

 quite open The three anterior segments, shagreened, with a mode- 

 rately elevated medial line. Third segment without plaits, but with a 

 medial carination. The other seirments each with a subdorsal linear 

 impression and also lateral ones. — and with confluent punctulations. 

 except posteriorly, where they are smooth, not shining, and under a 

 lens, delicately shagreened. Terminal segment sub-rectangular, with a 

 short, triangular, rugose spine, more prominent in the % . 1 S , - 9 • 



8MERINTHUS ? 



Larva, length 2.5 in., breadth .40 in., tapering anteriorly from the 

 caudal horn. Head green, granulated, semi-conical, not rising above 

 the first segment, the lateral lines, whitish or light green, bordered by 

 darker green posteriorly, commencing anterior to the ocelli, curving 

 slightly, and uniting at the apex — the granulations within these lines 

 larger than those without; maxillae, within black; labrum, rose-color. 

 Body, apple-green, very pale dorsally, and deeper below the stigmata, 

 with numerous small white-tipped granulations, which are more con- 

 spicuous on the anterior segments. The seven lateral bands, pale yel- 

 low, — in the first six segments, commencing at the margin of each 

 somewhat below the lower portion of the stigma, traversing two seg- 

 ments in line.-i slightly concave anteriorly, forming an angle at the in- 

 cisure — sometimes continued on a third segment, nearly reaching the 

 vascular line, — the granulations in these bands larger than those of the 

 body generally; the seventh band broader, brighter yellow, and more 

 conspicuous from its granulations being elongated into papillae — com- 

 mencing on the posterior portion of the ninth segment on the sub-stig- 

 matal flexure, and continued in nearly a straight line, to the horn. 

 The subdorsal thoracic line, pale yellow, extending over the second and 

 third segments nearly horizontally, and on the fourth, curving upward 

 and terminating near the vascular line. Caudal horn, green, straight, 

 broad at its base, .10 in. long. Caudal shield, light green, studded with 

 conspicuous white granulations. Legs, rose-color. 



