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Caterpillar.—Slug-shaped, with two processes on the head, and two on the anal 
segment, 
Chrysalis.—Somewhat boat-shaped; dorsum arched ; head with two short pro- 
jecting points. 
Hgg.—‘ Large; few; hardly as high as wide; ribs low, serrate, rather numerous, 
not produced at apex ”’ (Doherty). 
Group IIT. EHuraariuya. 
Imago.—Robust. Forewings broad, triangular; apex either obtusely pointed or 
rounded, or somewhat falcate; exterior margin either slightly, but obtusely, 
scalloped, or nearly even. Hindwings short, broad, triangular or obovate, or some- 
times subquadrate. 
Caterpillar.—Head slightly cleft and spiny or minutely hairy. Body armed 
with a subdorsal and lateral row of erect branched-spines, or with very long lateral 
horizontally-projecting branched-spines. 
Chrysalis.—Hlongate and boat-shaped, with arched dorsum and bifid head; or, 
short and stout, with triangulate medio-dorsal prominence, and bifid head. 
Egg.—? 
Group IV. Limenrrra. 
Imago.—Moderately robust, generally. Forewings either short and more or less 
triangular, or elongate and narrow; apex obtuse or. rounded; exterior margin in 
some more or less slightly scalloped. Hindwings short, generally broad and 
triangularly-ovate, in some obovate ; exterior margin more or less slightly scalloped, 
and in some the anal angle is prolonged, or lobate, the apex slightly excised, and 
with a short acute point or narrow tail at end of upper median veinlet. 
Caterpillar.—Head cleft, or serrate, on vertex. Body either unequally humped 
dorsally, or more or less cylindrical; armed with two subdorsal series of mostly 
short irregular-shaped fleshy branched-spines. 
Chrysalis—Somewhat elongate, or short ; with projecting wing-cases, broad 
rounded elevated anterio-dorsal prominence, arched thorax, and projected bifid (or 
rarely single) head piece. 
Egg.— Very large; few; soft; not so high as wide, strongly reticulate with 
elevated translucent lines crossing the surface asymmetrically, enclosing pentagonal 
and hexagonal spaces, and bearing long; acute, often bifid spines at their in- 
tersection ’’ (Doherty). 
Group V. NympHatina. 
Imago.—Forewings elongately-triangular ; apex obtusely angled or rounded, in 
some produced to a more or less distinct point ; exterior margin either more or less 
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