378 PROf'EEDTNOS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



ing sordid reddi.sh; shields concolorous, pale luteous, not large. Tuber- 

 cles small, black, distinct, normal; setie short, pale; feet colorless. 

 The larvie were quiet and sluggish, remaining hidden all da3^ 



Stage II. — Head rounded, slightly bilobed, larger than joint 2, the 

 lobes full; held obliquely; pale luteous with minute brown dots on the 

 tubercles and a patch on each side of the median suture; antenna? and 

 labrum partly pale; width 0.») mm. Body cylindrical, normal, joint 

 12 slightly enlarged; feet normal, but those of joints 7 and 8 slightly 

 reduced. Sordid whitish, shields concolorous, scarcely cornitied; nar- 

 row white dorsal and subdorsal lines, a broader stigmatal one, irregular 

 and blotched. Tubercles neatly black; feet pale; seta? moderate. 



Stage III — Head rounded, polished orange, the clypeus and sutures 

 more yellowish, mouth brown, ocelli black; width 1 mm. Bod}" i^\\- 

 indrical, noctuiform, joint 12 enlarged, joints 3 to 6 arched in rest. 

 Green, sordid, subtranslucent; neat, narrow, white dorsal and sub- 

 dorsal lines; a broad white substigmatal band inclosing tubercles iv 

 and Y a,nd the spiracle. Feet normal, equal. Tubercles neat, round, 

 moderate, with the spiracles black, the latter narrowly ringed. Shields 

 concolorous, the cervical shield polished. Feet all pale, the abdominal 

 ones with the tul)ercles vii black. A brown form of the larva also 

 occurred. All shaded with dilute black between the lines; stigmatal 

 band slightly yellowish; feet pale but sordid tinted; head as in the 

 green form. 



Stage IV. — Head rounded, the vertex slightly under joint 2, shining 

 brown, mottled Avith darker; width 1.5 nmi. Body thickly mottled 

 with chocolate brown on a Avhitish ground, the dorsal space lighter by 

 the ground showing more distinctly. Fine dorsal and subdorsal white 

 lines somewhat dotted and broken; stigmatal line broad, sharph^ edged, 

 narrowed in the incisures, white edged, broadly dull red and luteous 

 filled, including tubercles iv and v and the spiracles which are white, 

 narrowly black rimmed. Tubercle iv at center of spiracle, or al)ove 

 on joints 9 and 10. Venter paler; feet pale; tubercles in rather large 

 black spots. Shields concolorons. 



Stage V. (Interpolated). — One larva had this stage with mai-kings as 

 in the previous one. Width of head 1.8 mm. 



Stage VI. (Normal V). — Head rounded, .the apex under joint 2, shin- 

 ing pale brown, reticulated with dark, a dark patch on each side of the 

 clypeus; width 2.3 mm. Cervical shield shining brown, a darker spot 

 before and on the anterior angle, produced backward into a lateral 

 ))order; dorsal and subdorsal lines faint, pale. Body robust, joint 12 

 enlarged, joint 13 somewhat perpendicularly truncate, its foot nearly 

 under the hump of joint 12; thorax a little smaller than abdomen. 

 Brown mottled, chocolate on a light ja^llowish ground. Dorsal line of 

 few white dots in the center of the segments, edged by a dark cloud; 

 subdorsal line similar, more continuous; lateral space heavil}" dark 



