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white, rather thick, with a series of Httle short dorsal tufts. Venter 

 dark gray with a series of black medio-ventral spots. Body quite 

 densely clothed with secondary hairs, the warts almost obsolete, some of 

 the largest ones persisting, black. Leg plates dark. 



Last stage. — Head black, the lower segment of clypeus, side pieces 

 and median suture whitish ; mouth pale; all covered with soft white 

 secondary hairs; rounded, rather large, not retracted; width 5.5 to 

 6.4 mm. Body curiously transversely streaked with whitish and red- 

 brown, silky hairy, flattened ; no warts. There is a rather broad shaded 

 blackish band below the spiracles, relieved by a series of whitish inter- 

 segmental patches below, otherwise grading into the dark venter, mot- 

 tled with black and light red on each side of the median black patches. 

 Above the substigmatal line the marks are transeverse, except a narrow 

 brown-black broken lateral line which cuts them. The ground color is 

 whitish, shading into bright brown subdorsally, with about si.x obscured 

 transverse streaks of brown black, most distinct intersegmentally. They 

 become clouded in a dark brown shade centrally on the segment and 

 are relieved by an orange subdorsal transverse dash on the posterior 

 third on joints 4 to 12, a rather conspicuous making, defined before by 

 darker brown; an anterior dark brown ad-dorsal patch. These trans- 

 verse markings are produced by a growth of fine short dark brown sec- 

 ondary hairs in four transverse lines over the dorsum, a broken blackish 

 dorsal and ad-dorsal shading on the ground of the original broad 

 orange-red subdorsal band. At the lower edge of the orange dash a 

 dark red shade obscurely parallels the longitudinal superstigmatal line. 

 Cervical shield velvety black with two white streaks below it. Anal 

 plates black, joint 12 heavily clouded with blackish. Thoracic feet 

 reddish, abdominal dark, with a bright whitish streak down the outer 

 side. Hair soft, fine, white, tufted dorsally and subventrally centrally 

 on the segments. Warts absent, all the hairs secondary ; no percepti- 

 ble enlargement below the cervical shield ; joint 12 not enlarged. 



The short brown hairs are stiff thick-walled tubes, smooth with 

 pointed conical ends ; they are widest at terminal third and taper a lit- 

 tle toward the base, minutely granular-roughened just before the tip. 

 The long white hairs are more slender, colorless, thin walled and 

 smooth, gently tapering toward the tip. There is a slight roughening 

 toward the tip of short lamellar points. Length of the short hairs .4 to 

 .6 mm., of the long ones 3 to 6 mm. The short hairs are evidently of 

 a defensive nature as they become detached when the larva is handled 

 and entering the skin produce some irritation and finally small blisters 

 which last for several days. 



