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were found in the field on separate occasions and matured into tlie 

 same larva, while Mr. Cockle bred it again from a third collected eg-g 

 cluster under his number 20. 



J^gg. — Laid in a high pile, three or four la3^ers deep, irregularly 

 plastered on. Flatly spheroidal, the l)ase well flattened. Ribs about 

 60, diminishing irregularly by confluence or alternation toward vertex. 

 Reticulations all over alike, the vertical ones onh^ on the summits of 

 the ribs, not in the bases of the hollows, with the cross lines forming 

 rounded hexagonal cells. Above the ends of the ribs are elongate 

 reticulations, getting yqvj small at the micropyle. Pale yellow; 

 diameter, 0.0 mm. 



Stage I. — Head rounded bilobed, pale brown, blackish mottled and 

 with black posterior rim and ocelli. Body normal, uniform, joint 12 

 enlarged, the feet of joints 7 and 8 short, semilooping: whitish, the 

 food green; tubercles round black, leg plates distinct and black; cer- 

 vical shield blackish at the edges. Thoracic feet pale; skin minutely 

 sparsely black spinulose; sets© rather long, black, pointed. 



Stage II. — Head bilobed, pale luteous, freckled with large gray 

 spots, mouth brown; width, 0.6 mm. Bod}^ normal, joint 12 a little 

 enlarged, the feet of joints 7 and 8 very short. Pale green, the food 

 dark; pale dorsal and subdorsal lines indicated. Tubercles small, 

 black; shields concolorous, cervical shield a little shining; feet pale, 

 the abdominal ones with black dots. 



Stage III. — Head pale luteous, blackish spotted in irregular bands; 

 width, 0.0 mm. Bod}^ moderate, joint 12 humped dorsally a little, 

 feet of joint 7 smaller. Green, dark olivaceous dorsally, pale sub- 

 ventralh'. Dorsal and subdorsal lines whitish, dark edged; a shadow 

 of a lateral line; substigmatal white, broad, dark edged above; feet 

 pale; tubercles whitish with black hair dots; seta> small. 



Stage IV. — Head rounded, shining, heavily reticulate with smoky 

 brown on a pale luteous ground; vertical bands broad; width, 1.2 

 mm. Body moderate, joint 12 enlarged a little; green, white dotted, 

 the dorsum with segmentaiy smoky black diamond-shaped marks, cut 

 by a white broken dorsal line. Subdorsal line fainter, lateral still 

 fainter, smoky edged, the .sides shaded nearly to black. Substigmatal 

 band broad, white, slightly reddish centered; subventer only slightly 

 black dotted. Feet pale; tubercles obscure, concolorous. 



Stage V. — Head pale brown, shining, ver}" heavily reticulate with 

 dark blackish, forming a vertical band on the lobe and one above eye; 

 width, 1.8 mm. Body normal, equal; joint 12 slightly enlarged. 

 Greenish gray, dotted reticulate in black, edging narrow broken 

 white dorsal, subdorsal and lateral lines, and forming oblique dorsal 

 shades from the incisure forward and downward to the subdorsal line. 

 Sides heavily shaded; substigmatal Ixind broad, white, luteous and 

 reddish filled; subventer pale, sparsely black dotted; no oblique line 

 on thorax; feet pale; a bar on joint 12 at tubercle ii. 



