LEMONIAS I. 



horizontally ; the white hairs from the difi'erent segments form a complete fringe 

 around the body, including botli extremities; head broader than high, obovoid, 

 the sides rounded, the top depressed, the vertices rounded; color black, covered 

 with a yellow down on lower two-thirds, and witli many long, depressed, white 

 hairs (Fig. c). To next moult nineteen days. 



After second moult: length three hours after the moult, .19 inch; same shape 

 and appearance as at next previous stage ; the dorsum dull wliite, with a brown 

 line down the middle ; the Ijrown stripe as Ijefore, the rest of side reddish-yellow ; 

 the dorsal white area is elevated above the segments at either end, that is, above 

 2 and 13, and ends abruptly, and 13 dorsaliy is of same hue as the sides; head 

 as before (Fig. d.). To next moult fifteen days. 



After third moult : length one day after the moult, .20 inch, greatest breadth, 

 .08 inch; shape and appearance as before ; the dorsum dull white, the medio-dor- 

 sal stripe pink-gray, the sides pink-ljrown mottled with white ; head as before 

 (Figs, e, e^.). To next moult eleven days. 



After fourth moult : length eighteen hours after the moult, .40 inch; greatest 

 breadth, .15 ; height, .10 inch. 



Mature Larva. — Length, .7 inch ; the head bent under, and, seen from 

 above, both ends are rounded ; the general shape long oval, the last segments 

 narrowest; viewed sidewise, 3 and 4 are highest and the slope is gradual to 13, 

 rapid to head ; the dorsum elevated, forming a tlat ridge from 3 to 12, with i-ather 

 abrupt ends and sides ; color of dorsum dull pinkish-ferruginous, with decided 

 white along the edge of the elevated part ; a dark raedio-dorsal line or stripe ; 

 the sides of body wine-red. finely mottled with whitish on the upper part ; on 

 the lower, green and reddish are blended, and beneath green prevails ; the two 

 lower rows of tubercles yellow; in all there are six rows of tubercles, — one 

 sub-dorsal and two lateral on either side ; the upper and lower extend from 3 to 

 12, the other from 3 to 13 ; those of the dorsal rows are short, conical, blunt, 

 and each sends out a pencil of many very short, straight, divergent black hairs : 

 those of second row are small, with similar pencils of hairs, but fewer in num- 

 ber; those of lower row are still smaller, with a pencil of half a dozen black 

 hairs like the rest from the upper part, but under them, long, depressed white 

 hairs falling to feet ; on 2 are two large rounded processes, white, vitreous, with 

 several short, black hairs, but from the fronts come long white hairs which bend 

 down, screening the face ; on the side of 2 are two small pencils of hairs in ver- 

 tical line, the upper lying between the lateral rows of the other segments, the 

 hairs black, the other a little below the line of lower row, and giving both black 

 and white hairs ; over the feet also on 3 and 4 each is a slight tubercle with two 

 or three white hairs ; 13 is dark colored dorsaliy, with a tuft of black hairs on 



