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The type of flava measures as follows : Length, pronotum, 1 mm. ; 

 elytra, 36 mm. ; hind femora, 25 mm. 



A paratypic male is also present and is essentially like the type except 

 it is somewhat smaller, measuring as follows: Length, pronotimi, 8.5 

 mm. ; elytra, 28 mm. ; hind femora, 1 8 mm. 



Type, S, Jamaica, August, 1912. Altitude, 2,000 to 3,000 feet 

 W. R. B. Robertson, collector. Paratype, $ , same data as the type. 



Type and paratype. Cat. No. 1 5 7 1 7, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



THE LARVA OF DELIAS HENNINGIA 

 ESCHSCHOLTZ 



{Lepidoptera, Pierida) 

 By HARRISON G. DYAR 



The larva of this butterfly was briefly described by Semper after a 

 drawing by Otto Koch (Schmett. Phil. Inseln, 234. 1890). He calls it 

 red-brown, which in my opinion is too dull a color. The larvae are rather 

 dark crimson, with light yellow bands. Professor C. F. Baker sent me 

 some specimens, which he found at Los Banos, Philippine Islands, in a 

 large company making their way slowly down the trunk of a Cordia 

 blancoi tree. They pupated immediately when collected. 



The head is rounded, a little higher than wide, black, granular, with 

 numerous small black secondary hairs and three long single coarse yellow 

 ones, representing primary tubercles i, ii, juid iii of the epicranial lobe. 

 Body cylindrical, tapering slightly at the ends, dark crimson with a nanow 

 bright yellow band across each segment, from the base of the foot across 

 the spiracle, on the anterior fourth of the segment on joints 3 to 13, that 

 on joint 1 3 reduced. Anal shield, thoracic feet, and the small leg-plates 

 black. Skin densely covered with minute secondary hair ; a small coarse 

 seta for tubercle i, a very long coarse bright yellow one for ii, none visi- 

 ble for iii, a smaller but still long yellow hair for iv and for v, the tubercles 

 approximated but iv high above v yet well below the spiracle, two small 

 yellow hairs on the leg-base posteriorly. Leg-shields densely hairy with 

 short black hairs. Abdominal feet with an inner row of crochets of three 

 lengths and a small outer row ; feet of anal segment with the mner row 

 of crochets bent around anteriorly to the outer side. 



