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C. H. HARDENBERG. 



When pupating no inner bag is made, but the space 

 between the pupa and the lower end of the bag is filled with 

 fluffy, white silk. 



The bags greatly resemble the dried flowers of the food- 

 plant; these are also very woolly and white, while the points of 

 the leaflets forming the involucre project through the woolly 

 covering. The dried flower droops on the stem, and :is the 

 calyx (now the upper end) is less woolly than the flower part, 

 this heightens the resemblance between it and the bag of 

 Monda major. As already mentioned by the Rev. Junod, 

 it is very difficult to distinguish the bags on the food-plant. 



Larva. — A full-grown female larva is illustrated in text- 

 fig. 22, F. Length 15 mm. (female), thickness 3'5 mm., 

 greatest thickness at the 3rd abdominal segment. General 

 colour of body ivory yellow (XXX), head cream buff (XXX), 

 markings on head, thorax and body mummy brown (XV). 



Width of head-case 1'8 mm. Markings of head and 

 thoracic plates of the usual bagworm pattern, i.e. radially 

 arranged spots on the parietals and longitudinal sti-ipes with 

 scattered dots on the thoracic plates. Abdominal segments 

 with small mummy brown chitinous plates bearing the body 

 set». On abd. 8, 9, and 10 there is a conspicuous large, 

 median dorsal plate. On abd. 1 and 2 these setiferous plates 

 are larger and more conspicuous than on the other segments. 



Number of hooklets on prolegs are as follows : 



Male Pupa. — Length 6'5 mm., width 2'5 mm. ; greatest 

 width at the 3rd abdominal segment ; depth 2*2 mm., greatest 

 depth at metathorax and at the 4th abdominal segment. 

 Area across the ends of the maxillary palpi forms a transverse 

 shallow groove (text-fig. 23, a-f). Wing-cases reach to the 



