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sides of the lobes, ocelli black; width, 1.2 mm. Bod}- slender, taper- 

 ing a little, joint 12 slightly enlarged dorsally. Smooth translucent 

 green, the color mostly from the food; dorsal, upper and lower sub- 

 dorsal and lateral lines white, about as broad as the spaces; stigmatal 

 band white. Between it and the lateral line, all dark purplish brown; 

 subventer irregularly shaded in brown. Folded bases of the feet 

 whitish; feet colorless; tubercles miiuite, l)lack; setfe short, pale. 



Stage V. — Head round, slightly bilobed, full, large, shining waxj^ 

 white, faintly reticulate in brown; width, 1.8 mm. Body moderate, 

 equal; feet equal. Pale brown, mottled with dark brown; dorsal line 

 narrow, white, subdorsal broad, eroded geminate above; lateral straight, 

 a trace of a line below it; lower lateral straight; between this and the 

 stigmatal line a broad dark-brown area obscurely geminate by a dilu- 

 tion. Stigmatal band white, below the spiracles on joints 2 and 12; 

 subventer slightly brown mottled. Feet whitish; tubercles dark, but 

 obscure; no shields. 



Stage VI. — Head luteous white, reticulate with brown and with ver- 

 tical bands beside the clypeus and a narrow one from eye; width, 2.5 mm. 

 Body finely and neatly striped. Ground color pale creamy; dorsal 

 line white, broadly dark brown edged, powdery without with a partly 

 detached line along tubercle i. Subdorsal line white, powdery, dark 

 brown edged above; lateral line white, straight like the others; lateral 

 space brown filled, with a central dilution, almost forming a line. 

 Space between lateral and stigmatal purple-brown filled, with a similar 

 linear dilution, whitish. Substigmatal band white, geminate by a 

 broad waved filling. Subventral area luteous, white dotted. Feet 

 pale; tubercles i and ii with small black spots, the other tubercles con- 

 colorous; spiracles black; shields concolorous. The body is uniform, 

 joint 12 not enlarged; feet equal; seta3 short, obscure. 



Stage VII. — Head luteous, reticulations and vertical bands dark 

 brown; width, 3.5 mm. Body equal, tapered a little at the ends; 

 luteous, white dotted, brown reticulate. Dorsal line white, dark 

 edged; subdorsal and lateral similar, the subdorsal broadly dark above. 

 Space between lateral line and spiracles dark; substigmatal band white; 

 luteous filled; subventer white dotted; feet pale. 



ZOSTEROPODA HIRTIPES Grote. 



Forty-two specimens, .June IG, 19, 23, 25, July 8, 21, 27, 30, 

 August 11. 



Egg. — Low ellipsoidal, the base flattened; ribs about 36, broad, 

 low, indistinct, covered by reticulations, the apical ones on the ribs 

 forming a regular zigzag; no lines in the hollows and the cross-striee 

 obsolete on the sides but distinct toward vertex, where there is a coarse, 

 rounded, hexagonal reticulation, irregular and confused; micropylar 

 circle of pyriform cells slightly raised. Pale yellow, with a reddish 

 ring and spot; diameter, 0.8 mm. 



