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enlarged, feet of joints 7 and 8 smaller than the others; shield, tuber- 

 cles, and leg plates very weakl}" infuscated. Tubercles rather large; 

 setse black, pointed. 



Stage II. — Head shining browni.sh luteous; width, O.O mm. Body 

 rather elongate, thorax slightly tapered, joint 12 scarcely enlarged. 

 Green, shaded with vinous brown to the middle of the subventral area. 

 Dorsal, subdorsal, and broken lateral lines whitish; substigmatal line 

 broad, pure white. Tubercles minute, dark, seta? small. 



Stage III. — Head bilobed, pale brownish, tubercles and vertical 

 line blackish; width, 0.8 mm. Body rather flattened, moderate, 

 dorsum luteous, dorsal and subdorsal lines w^hite, dark edged, lateral 

 area dark, v^inous tinted, a shadow in place of the lateral line; sub- 

 stigmatal band broad, pure white; subventral area like the dorsum, 

 but retracted. Feet very pale; those of joints 7 and 8 small; no 

 shields; tubercles black, setae minute. 



~ Stage IV. — Head bilobed, rounded, pale In-own, reticulations and 

 distinct vertical band dark brown; width, l.-t mm. Body moderate, 

 joint 12 enlarged, without shields. Dorsum broadl}^ carneous pinkish, 

 dorsal and subdorsal lines whitish, broken intersegmentally, the sub- 

 dorsal narrower and su})obsolete, darker edged; scattered dark specks 

 in the dorsal space; a distinct, black, cuneiform subdorsal mark on 

 joint 12 forms a transverse bar. Lateral space black, inclosing the 

 subdorsal line, scarcel}^ pale dotted; substigmatal line white, pale 

 carneous filled centrally; subventer pinkish, black irrorate; feet pale, 

 black dotted. Tubercles l^lack, not contrasted; setie pale, moderate. 



Stage V. — Head light pinkish in ground; heavily reticidate in brown 

 black and with broad vertical bands; width, 2.5 mm. Dorsum lila- 

 ceous with dift'use oblique shades of black linings defining the con- 

 colorous dorsal line and forming black cuneiform patches on joints 11 

 and 12, that on 12 large and forming a single patch. Subdorsal line 

 nearly concolorous with ground, segmental h^ lightened in orange; sides 

 wholl}^ black penciled; substigmatal band lilaceous with a rather 

 broad, pale yellow, bright upper edge and salmon pink below, reaching 

 from joint 2 to the anal foot. Substigmatal band l)elow black pen- 

 ciled, its lower edge free of black. Subventral region of the same 

 color, powdery black marked; abdominal feet concolorous, thoracic 

 ones brown. 



Stage VI — Head shining violaceous, heavily reticulate in black with 

 broad curved vertical bands each side of the clypeus and erect streaks 

 from and behind the eye; clypeus l)lack shaded; antenna? long, the l)asal 

 joint whitish, second black at base, third reddish; width, 3.3 mm. 

 Body moderately robust, equal, no enlargements, joint 13 roundedly 

 smaller. Dorsum velvety black, very slightly vacuolated with lila- 

 ceous, dorsal line obsolete; a white speck at tubercle i. Cervical shield 

 with a distinct dorsal reddish violaceous line and broken subdorsal one, 



