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REMIGIA LATIPES Guenee. 



The mature larva has been l:)riefly described ])y Mrs. Swainson/ 

 who mentions the peculiar habit it has of folding itself up with the 

 thoracic feet touching the abdominal ones of joints 9 and 10 and an 

 angle in the body at joint 5. The larva feeds at night, living concealed 

 in the grass. 



Ji'f/(j.- — Spheroidal, \'ery slightly Hattencd al)ove and ])clow. sym- 

 metrical; about 2-i low, sharp, vertical ribs, not diminishing in num- 

 ber till toward vertex, where all end; cross lines tine and obscure, 

 those with the vertical reticulations invisible to the lens, but seen 

 under a half-inch ol)jeetive. Diameter 0.7 mm. Slightly greenish- 

 gray, not shining. Later a vertical didl-red blotch and irregular lateral 

 ring. 



Stttf/e I. — Head bilobed, rounded, full, free from joint 2, clypeus 

 small; shining testaceous, brown tinted; ocelli black; width 0.3 mm. 

 Body slender, thread-like; feet on joints J), -10, and 13. Colorless 

 transparent, food green; shields all concolorous and inconspicuous. 

 Tubercles small, round, black. A subdorsal (over tubercles i and ii), 

 lateral (above iii) and stigmatal (tubercle iv), faintly brown lines. 

 Central segments long drawn out, the tubercles remote. Thoracic 

 segments and joints 9 to 13 normal, not elongate. Cervical shield 

 with two detached setie on the posterior corners, four on the shield; 

 greenish, concolorous. Head set}© normal, clypeal and paraclj^peal 

 ones small. Anal feet directed posteriorly, blackish outwardly. 

 Tu])erclc i of joint 11 very small, the segment therefore weak. Other 

 tubercles normal, i and ii in line, iv behind the spiracle; on thorax ia 

 and ib approximate, iia and iib remote, iv anterior; no subprimaries. 

 Later the narrow brown lines are more distinct, covering joints 2 to 

 13 with a line on the anal foot. 



Stage II. — Head round, bilobed, full, cheeks below squarish, clypeus 

 reaching alwve middle of front; whitish, green tinted, four vertical 

 brown stripes on each lobe; the two next median suture join al)Ove, 

 diverge below, one to the jaw, the other to antenna; this joins the 

 third at antenna, which then runs to l)ack of head laterally. The fourth, 

 on lower edge of cheek behind ocelli, is dou])le, the ends approximate, 

 forming a pointed ellipse; width 0.5 mm. Body slender, uniform, a 

 little flat; abdominal feet on joints 9, 10, and 13, the latter directed 

 posteriorly. Three brown stripes on each side, reaching joints 2 and 

 13, the shields invisible and uncornitied. The lines are subdorsal (over 

 tubercles i and ii), lateral and stigmatal (covering iii and iv), with two 

 fainter subventral lines on vi and vii, respective^, situated below the 

 subventral fold and ventrally opposed. Tubercles small, black, well 



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