Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus 



Vol. n AUGUST. 1914 No. 8 



THE LARV.^ OF SOME LEPIDOPTERA FROM 

 MEXICO 



By HARRISON G. DYAR 



The following larvae were communicated by Mr. W. Gugelmann, 

 bred by him in Teapa, State of Tabasco, Mexico. 



Family NYMPHALID/E 

 Amphlrene epaphus Latreille. 



Head large, subquadrate, notched at vertex, each lobe with a long, 

 cylindrical process or horn, with hairs and a few thorns ; head coal-black, 

 homs dark red ; some irregular black secondary hairs and a few thorn- 

 shaped tubercles. Body cylindrical, tapering in front and with branched 

 spinose processes ; dorsal row on joints 5 to I 3 rather smeJl, red ; sub- 

 dorsal row on 3 to 1 2 yellow, wath enlarged bases ; lateral row on 3 to 

 1 4 red, slender ; upper subventral row on 2 to 12 small, dull red ; lower 

 subventral row double and mixed with hairs, dull red, small. Body 

 entirely black ; joint 2 a little elevated and with scattered hairs ; leg bases 

 and thoracic feet hairy. 



Timetes peleus Sulzer. 



Head small, higher than wide, notched at vertex, each lobe with a 

 long, slender, fleshy horn, about three times as long as the head, with 

 small tubercles and minute setae. Head yellowish white, the horns black ; 

 a nanow black stripe from each horn down the face to each side of cly- 

 peus ; an elliptical black spot over the ocelli. Body cylindrical, tapered 

 in front, smooth, annulate ; three long, pointed, dorsd fleshy horns, with 

 minute tubercles and setae, on joints 6, 8, 1 0, and 1 2, longer than the 

 diameter of the body. Color yellowish white with black patches, the 

 horns black ; on joint 2 a subdorsal quadrate patch and small lateral one ; 



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