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Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. vii 



Several stages observed. At first the larvae are pruinose with no 

 black marks except the head and anal plate. Gradually these ap])ear. 



Last s/a^i;r. — Head black, mouth yellow, a slight woolly coating. 

 Body yellow subventrally and narrowly on joint 2 anteriorly ; dorsally 

 to spiracles whitish with two per segment subdorsal and one large lat- 

 eral black spot, obscurely connected into a square marking leaving 

 annulets 2 and 4 pale. The subdorsal sjJOts are on annulets 5-6-1 

 and 3-4 ; the lateral on 6-1-2. Segments 6-annulate. Anal plate 

 black ; joint 13 collared in front : spiracle on annulet 2. 



Ulfhnafc stage. — Heads 1.5, 2.0 and 2.3 mm. Very shining and 

 banded. Head jet black ; body bright ocher subventrally, on feet and 

 joint 2 anteriorly. Dorsum to spiracles light blue on annulets 2 and 

 4, on 4 the whole annulet, but on 2 only to the middle of the side. 

 (Jther annulets, including the collar of joint 13 and the whole of 14 

 dorsally deep blue black, forming disconnected black parallelograms 

 separated and centered by pale blue. 



CoiMPARisox OF I'HE Larv.*: OF P\)UR FoRMS OF Harpiphoriis. 



Name. 



iiitcrmcdius Dyar. 



iarsdftis Say. 



iaiiiis Nort. 



sicolor Nort. 



Last .Stage. 



No white coating ; marked 

 with black varying from a few 

 diffuse spots to heavy black 

 squares ; anal plate black. 



With white coating ; under 

 which are black spottings not 

 fully united into squares ; anal 

 plate black. 



With white coating ; no spots; 

 anal pale black. 



With white coating ; no spots ; 

 anal plate concolorous with 

 body. 



Ultimate Stage. 



Heavy black squares on a blue 

 ground, yellow subventrally. 



Heavy black squares on a blue 

 ground, yellow subventrally. 



Ground color all yellow with 

 slight black spottings. 



Ground color blue with slight 

 black spottings, yellow sub- 

 ventrally. 



Harpiphorus intermedius, var. nov. 



Intermediate in coloration between H. farsa/i/s and H. variamis, 

 the abdomen being black or nearly so, the hind tibiae pale red with 

 black apices. The front and middle tibiae are reddish and the cheeks 

 behind and below the eyes. 



Bred from larvce described as H. tarsatus, Journ. N. Y. Ent. 

 Soc, V, 21. 



