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ward, continiiino" the linos on the 1)ody in the noi-nial position of tho 

 head. A whitisli vertical line parallel to the median suture; width 

 about 0.8 mm. Thoracic feet large, black, pale ringed. Body slender, 

 nearly cyclindrical; feet small normal. Segmental incisures not 

 strongly marked. Venttn- dull green, dorsum lined with brown-black 

 and white, the lines of both colors of equal width. Pale lines yellow- 

 ish white except on the subventral fold, which is the last one and 

 greenish. Brown lines are dorsal, sul)dorsal (tu])ercles i and ii), lat- 

 eral, suprastigmatal (iii), and su])stigmatal. Tubercles small, black; 

 set^e moderate, fine. Tubercles iv and v separate but approximate, 

 V dorsad to iv and smaller, vi normal, vii of three setre on the leg 

 base. Two wavy l)rown suljventral lines below tubercles iv+v and 

 across vi, respectively. Subventer of thorax dark. 



Stage Y. — Head the same, but there are brown mottlings on the 

 sides of the lobes above the l)lack bars; width 1.5 mui. Bod}^ neatly 

 lined with 3^ellowish green and brownish l)lack, as before, but the three 

 lateral ])rown stripes are much wider than the pale intervals, which 

 have become linear. The two brown lines below the substigmatal 

 fold are present. 



Stage VI. — Head rounded, the vertex under joint 2, the clypeus 

 reaching two-thirds or more to the vertex; held out flat; lobes quite 

 full; pale yellow, checkered with angular spots of very pale brown, 

 also shaded with this color over the clypeus and along the median 

 suture; ocelli white, ])lack centered, surrounded by a black shade; 

 mouth brown; antenna^ moderate; tubercles minutely brownish; width 

 2.1 nmi. Bod}^ slender, slightly tlattened as before, lined. Dorsally 

 three pale ^^ellow lines alternating with two brown ones, becoming 

 black and white on the cervical shield; subdorsally three broad dingy 

 brown l)ands, alternating with two ver}'^ narrow pale yellow ones; 

 stigmatal line pale yellow, narrow, inclosing the white, black-rimmed 

 spiracles; a yellowish line along tubercles iv+v with a faint brown 

 one above; venter pale, nearly colorless. Tubercles small, l)lack, i 

 and ii in line or ii slightly dorsad, iv and v separate, iv directly 

 below the spiracle, v a little dorsad and anterior, vi not nuich below 

 iv, but well posterior, vii on the leg base of three seta^ in a triangle. 

 Shields perfectly concolorous, the anal plate and anal feet a little 

 shaded with purplish. Crochets of feet in a whole circle. Later the 

 ground color is whitish on the thorax, yellowish green centrally and 

 shaded with In-ownish posteriorly. 



The larva? pupate in a slight web in the sand or between leaves on 

 the ground. Pupa shining mahogany ])rown, thick and robust; 

 cremaster sessile, with a tuft of long stout hooks. 



Food plant. — Nectaiidra vMldemwiarid ; also apparently the same 

 larva on Persea carolhiensia. Larva3 from Palm Beach, Florida. 



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