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retracted; a black patch centrally dorsally on joint 8. Wart i 

 shows black, small ; secondary hairs short, few, tufted on the 

 anterior edges of the segments, especially on joints 6 and 7, 

 where they form collars, dense subventrally ; lappet-hairs long, 

 pale, mixed with blackish at base. . Feet red. 



Misantla, Vera Cruz. Mexico (W. Gugelmann). 



NOTODONTID^ 



Naprepa houla Dyar. 



Head rounded, bilobed, smooth, green ; antennae black. Body 

 with a low, annular oblique enlargement on joints 5 and 10. 

 Green, with coarse, striking markings : A blood-red band, edged 

 behind with white, on joints 5 and 10, starting before the 

 spiracle and running in an arc to the posterior edge of the 

 segment dorsally ; a similar stripe on joint 13, black and edged 

 with white in front; a series of round orange spots in blood- 

 red rings as follows: On joint 2, at spiracle and base of foot; 

 on joints 3 and 4, three lateral spots and one on the base of 

 the foot ; on joint 5, one below the spiracle ; on joints 6-12, a 

 group of three at spiracle — one on it, one below, one pos- 

 terior — and one on base of foot or tubercle vii ; on joints 7-9, 

 in addition, a row of six spots across the dorsum on the ante- 

 rior part of the segment. Anal plate brown, stained with red 

 in front. 



Misantla, Vera Cruz, Mexico (W. Gugelmann). 



PYRAUD'^ 



Myelobia smerintha Hiibner. 



Head small, rounded, luteous, the mouth broadly blackish. 

 Body thick in the middle and tapering to small ends, luteous 

 or whitish, with faint broad purple lateral shades, less distinct 

 in the mature larva. Tubercles small, setae inconspicuous, iv 

 and V superposed subventrally, apart, but united by a band of 

 drawn-out chitin. 



Internal feeders in stems of bamboo. 



Misantla, Vera Cruz, Mexico (W. Gugelmann). 



