LEMONIAS I. 



Egg. — Button-shaped, the top depi-essed ; covered with a white, vitreous 

 coating, or net-work, in six-sided meshes, each angle sending out a short tapering 

 filamentous spine (Fig. «'^.); these spines are wanting in the concentric rows 

 about the micropyle (Fig. c^.), and the meshes there are five-sided, and in the 

 central rosette rhoniboidal ; the egg imder this net-work is sage-green, and 

 through it, whitish-green (Fig. a.). Duration of this stage about twelve days. 



Young Larva. — Length, .04 inch ; cylindrical, thickest at third segment, 

 tapering posteriorly, the dorsum a little arched, each segment rounded ; color 

 greenish-yellow, a pale crimson stripe along middle of side ; from 3 to 12, 

 two dorsal rows of broad, oval, flattened, tuberculated processes, from each of 

 which comes a pencil of five long, recurved black hairs, one being shorter than 

 the rest ; along lower part of side, from 2 to 1.3, are three long, depressed white 

 hairs to each segment, and under these some fine and shorter ones ; on 2 is a 

 dark dorsal oval process, considerably elevated, the top rounded, and on its an- 

 terior part are six long hairs on each side the medio-dorsal line, all turned for- 

 ward ; in front of these is a fringe of long white hairs which falls over the 

 head ; 13 is brown at extremity, and the hairs extend back almost horizontally, 

 a little depressed ; feet and pro-legs yellow-green ; head a little broader than 

 2, obovoid, bilobed, slightly pubescent ; color dark brown ; the head is not re- 

 tractile, but is partly covered by 2 (Fig. 6.). Duration of this stage about 

 fifteen days. 



After first moult : length about two days after the moult, .11 inch ; somewhat 

 flattened, broader than high, the dorsum highest at 3, a little arched, and, as well 

 as the sides, tapering to 13 ; the head bent down and under, and partly concealed 

 by 2 ; color at first pale green dorsally, later, dull wdiite wdth a faint green tint ; a 

 brown stripe along upper part of side, the lower part of side and of the body pale 

 yellow-green ; on dorsum two rows of brown, conical, low, blunt-tipped tubercles, 

 from 3 to 12 ; on the side, in line with the stripe, a row of similar, but smaller, 

 tubercles, from 3 to 13 ; and lower down, another row, still smaller, from 3 to 12 ; 

 from the dorsal tubercles rise pencils of short, straight, divergent hairs, about 

 twenty-four in number, black ; from the upper lateral row similar pencils, shorter 

 and fewer, black ; from the lower row a few short, divergent black hairs, and 

 under them several long white hairs, depressed ; on 2 is a yellowish, vitreous, 

 low, rounded protuberance, divided into two at the medio-dorsal line, the back 

 part and middle of each half beset with short, straight black hairs, but from the 

 front proceed long white hairs, which come down over the face ; on the side of 2 

 are two small pencils of hairs in vertical row, the upper one lying between the 

 two lateral rows of other segments, a few white hairs from each ; at the extrem- 

 ity of 13 a black tuberculatiou, with short black and long white hairs projecting 



