432 'i"HH lurrKiJFLiEs of new i:x(;land. 



tie Avai-t-. one to a se.iiiuciit in oach row . each giviiiii- rise to a long, nearly straight, 

 very delicate, tapering hair; they are arranged on the abdomen in a subdorsal 

 row in the middle of the anterior half of the segment, a supralateral row on the pos- 

 terior part, a laterostigmatal roAV jnst in advance of the middle and a low stigmatal 

 row posteriorly, besides an infrastigmatal series slightly in advance of the middle; 

 on the thoracic segments they are the same excepting that the laterostigmatal be- 

 come infralateral. the subdorsal laterodorsal, and all are median. Legs apparently 

 rather stout, proleg'^ with a circular series of nine booklets. 



Mature caterpillar. Head rather small, well rounded, scarcely snb(|uadrate. broad- 

 est in the middle, tlie hemispheres scarcely tumid above, the suture between tiien\ a 

 little and rather suddenly depressed, the sides rather broadly rounded, the front 

 scarcelv appressed. scarcely deeper below than above: triangle not very much higher 

 than broad, extending fully half way up the head, covered i)retty regularly and rather 

 abundantly with larger and smaller subcylindrical. tapering warts, mostly but little 

 higher than broad, but on the iiinder margin l)ecoming more elevated, and one a little 

 more conspicuous than those al>out it on the outer anterior border of the summit of 

 each hemisphere. Anti-nuae with the second joint nearly as long as broad, the third 

 not much slenderer but more than twice as long as broad, bearing a very long hair at 

 the tip. t!\e fourth a miniature- of the third and quite inconsi)icuo\is. Ocelli six in 

 luimber. five in a pretty strong curve, convexity forward, the second and third — counting 



from above in contact, the fourth scarcely separated from the third, the fifth distant 



from the fourth by less, and the tir^t from the second by rather more, than the diameter 

 of one of them: the sixth !•< behind the others equally distant from the tlrst and fourth 

 aiui with them forms a right angle: they are all of equal diameter and |)rominent. but 

 the second to the fifth peculiarly so. Labrum small. l)ro:ul. well rounded, pretty 

 <leeply excised in the middle in front. Mandibles snnill. broad, not very stout, the 

 edue straight, in the upper half faintly denticidate. in the lower half with three distinct 

 but small, triangular teeth, a little longer than broad. Maxillary i)alpi with the first 

 two joints about equal, broad and short, the third nmcli slenderer, twice as long as 

 l)road. l)luntly r.umded attip. Ilie foiu'tii small. l)Mt noticealile. Siiinneret broad at 

 l)ase and rapidly tapering, beyond slender. 



r>ody cylindrical, nearly eipial. taiu'ring slightly forward on the thoracic segments, 

 armed with rather long and eons|)icuons spines, having a l)road \)n^r. The spines are 

 slender, straiiiht and slightly ta|)ering. terminating in a needle Avhich is fully one- 

 third as long as the spine and at base about half as l)road as the tip of the spine. 

 They are furnished at the sides with not very long and rather slender spinnles. spread- 

 ing upward at an angle of about 4.")° with the main stem and armed at tip like the 

 spine: there are generally seven or eight of these irregularly disposed on the Imsal 

 two-thirds of the spine, and. independent of their thorn, seldom more than one-fourth 

 as long as the main stem. The spines are regularly arranged in longitudinal rows, one to 

 a segment in each roAV. as follows : a dorsal series, placed anteriorly on the first to eighth 

 abdominal segments ; a laterodorsal series, placed centrally on the first to eighth abdom- 

 inal segments: a lateral series, placed centrally on the second and third thoracic 

 segments : a laterostigmatal series, placed anteriorly on the first to nintli abdominal seg- 

 ments, the last having two. oiu' placed anteriorly and the other i)osteriorly : a stignnital 

 series, placed centrally on the second and third thoracic segments : and an infrastigmatal 

 series, placed centrally or very slightly posterior to it. from the second thoracic to the 

 eiiihth abdominal segments. The first segment is provided with a transverse series of 

 long, papilli form t\ibercles. each Avith a long, curving bristle. The body is also fur- 

 nished w ith numerous, very delicate, not very long hairs arising from the minutest 

 warts. Spiracles moderately large. o))ovate. about half as long again as broad. 

 Legs equal, not very long, slender, tapering, the claw very slender, curving but little. 

 Pi-olegs not very long, pretty stout, tapering, the booklets as in Euvanessa. 



Chrysalis. Viewed from above, the prothorax and head taper very slightly and 

 regularly, or not at all. to the tip of the ocellar prominences ; the latter are stout, blunt 

 projections, scuuetimes conical. l)ut then low and with their inner edges slightly curved 



