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ish ones at the extremities and a diffuse black pencil latereJly on joint 5 

 (wart iii). 



Food plant : Zapotaceae. 



The larva resembles that of Lymire edwardsi Grote. 



Eucereon pseudarchias Hampson. 



Head moderate, rounded, quadrate below ; dark brown, shining, 

 smooth, the median and clyF>eeJ sutures broadly white ; sparsely covered 

 with brown secondary hairs and some longer ones. The body is shrunken 

 in the specimen, so the structure cannot be seen. The warts bear sparse, 

 long, black hairs among dense tufts of short plumose brown ones, inter- 

 mixed with white, forming a broad fan-shaped area anteriorly and a 

 smaller similar area posteriorly, the whole triangularly shaped. 



Food plant: Ficus. 



Family ARCTIID/E 



Utetheisa ornatrix Linnaeus. 



Head small, rounded, flat in front, the clypeus reaching to the middle ; 

 shining cheny red. Body cylindrical, uniform ; tubercles large, blue- 

 black, single-haired except vi, which is double, iv close behind spiratle; 

 j color black, fading to grayish in the incisures ; a yellow dorsal line, incised 

 j posteriorly and broken anteriorly on each segment ; three subdorsal angu- 

 ! lar or quadrate yellow spots, the central one broken by tubercle ii ; a 

 i stigmatal yellow band, broken centreJly on the segments, with angular 

 I patches and a small spot above tubercle iv ; a row of small spots eJong 

 .', tubercles vi ; venter broadly pale yellow ; feet black. Haurs long, coarse, 

 i i and ii black, iii to vi white, except the longest ones toward the extrem- 

 ities, which are black at base, white outwardly. Cervical shield black, 

 I bisected, each half with four hairs ; a small two-hciired wart posteriorly. 



I i On joints 3 and 4, ia + ib and iia approximated, in line. 



I I Food plant : Leguminosae. 



; I Family LASIOCAMPID/E 



( ! Tolype synoecura Dyar. 



'' I Head rounded, flattened on top, clypeus depressed, dark, somewhat 

 i shining, the rest of the head soft velvety brown, dark-mottled, leaving a 

 t I pale vertical streak on each lobe and an angled lateral line ; densely 

 t ; hairy with soft brown hairs. Body cylindriceJ, uniform, joint 1 3 abruptly 



