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third slender, e(iual, strongly curved; inferior arras joined below the anns, lamellate, 

 turned back completely upon tliemselves, and furnished at terminal edue with a dense 

 fringe of stift", straight bristles, in continuation of the lamella, or upward directed. 

 Clasps nearly s(iuare, with the upper portion of the posterior edge produced to a long, 

 nearly equal, backward directed, interiorly canaliculate })lade, as long as the clasp, 

 which takes the place of the basal process ; interior finger long, straight, and very 

 slender, following the course of the blade and nearly reaching the tip. 



Egg. Rather broader than high (to judge from specimens in glycerine), broadest in 

 the middle of the lower two-thirds, roundly and considerably tapering above, so that 

 the truncate summit is only half the diameter of the broadest portion, and has a Avide 

 area between the termination of the ribs. "Vertical ribs few in number, rather slight, 

 strongly compressed; not more than double as high above as below; cross ribs faint, 

 inconspicuous and straight. 



Mature caterpillar. Head of moderate size, subquadrate, broader than high, the 

 sides moderately full, broadest at summit of ocellar field, the front appressed, and 

 in the middle even a little sunken, as deep above as below, each hemisphere submam- 

 miform above, and bearing anteriorly and exteriorly at summit a slightly forward pro- 

 jecting, papilliform, equal tubercle, as long as the width of the triangle; surface 

 smooth, but sparsely covered with papilliform bristle-bearing tubercles of very varied 

 sizes, the largest above, the smallest on the triangle, with similar tubercles crowded 

 on the apical half of the summit tubercle; sutures not deeply impressed, but the 

 hemispheres well separated by a rather deep cut, Avider at base than the suture ; tri- 

 angle almost as broad as high, reaching considerably above the middle of the Ijase, the 

 lower border broadly emarginate. Basal joint of antennae hemispherical, second 

 a mere ring, third cylindrical, at least three times as long as broad, and bearing a 

 slender bristle half as long again as the antenna, the fourth joint very minute ; 

 the five principal ocelli arranged in a strongly curving row, convexity forward, and 

 the upper much more removed from the others than from one another, forming a third 

 'or more of a circle whose centre is just below the sixth tubercle, which is behind the 

 second from the top. Clypeus with entire and straight lower edge ; labrum rectangu- 

 larly and deeply emarginate ; mandibles rather small ; maxillary palpi rather slender, 

 but normal. 



Body cylindrical but tapering gently forwards on the thoracic segments, the first at 

 least of which is smaller than the head, more or less distinctly moniliform, armed with 

 slender, tapering, spiculiferous spines, the body of which is longer than the height of 

 the head, and arranged as follows: a dorsal series, anteriorly placed, on all the 

 abdominal segments excepting the tenth ; a laterodorsal series, less anteriorly placed, 

 on all the segments but the first thoracic; a suprastigmatal series, anteriorly placed, on 

 the same segments, but on the third thoracic segment lowered to the stigmatal line ; an 

 infrastigmatal series, centrally placed, on all the segments excepting the ninth and 

 tenth abdominal segments, and very small on the third thoracic ; a suprapedal, cen- 

 trally placed, on the same segments, but double on the second and third thoracic and 

 second to sixth abdominal segments. Besides, there are transverse rows of smaller 

 and simpler but otherwise similar, though unequal, spines on the dorsum of the first 

 thoracic segment and the venter of the non-pedigerous segments ; and transverse 

 series of minute hair-bearing tubercles on the posterior halves of the segments, and 

 irregularly scattered ones on the anterior halves. Spiracles ovate, with a sharp rim. 

 Legs rather long and slender, of similar length, the last joint compressed, the claw 

 delicate, with a minute basal tubercle; prolegs rather long, gently tapering. 



Chrysalis. Viewed from above, the prothorax and head, with the outer edge of 

 the ocellar prominences, taper a little and uniformly; the front line of the body, con- 

 necting the tips of the ocellar prominences, is slightly hollowed, with a very slight 

 central prominence; there is an obscui-e ridge running from the tip of each, inward, 

 toward the middle of the front of the mesonotum. Viewed from the side, the 

 ocellar prominences are well arched, with a minute apical tubercle, the whole being 

 directed forward. Having but a single specimen which has been broken, to describe 



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