1098 TUV. ISUTTEHFLIKS OF NEW EXGl.AND. 



is a ventrostifrmatiil row of small warts beai'ins not very long tapering hairs, one to each 

 segment. Legs rather short and stout, the last joint slenderer, tapering; claw rather 

 small. Prolegs verj' short indeed, the ventral having seven hooklets arranged on the 

 posterior and inner half of a broad transverse oval, the anal thirteen hooklets around 

 all quarters of a ciixle excepting the posterior, the hooklets very small, pretty strongly 

 curved, tapering, sejiarated by half the width of the base of one of them. 



Mature caterpillar, lleail very regularly rounded without fulness in any part, 

 broadest at the upper limit of the ocellar field, well domed above, a little broader than 

 high; of nearly uniform deptli, the front apprcssed a little, the sutures impressed 

 slightly; covered very uniformly and rather abundantly with veryminnte papillae each 

 giving rise to a short, slightly curving, tapering, erect, delicate hair; triangle less 

 than half as high again as broad, reaching a little above the middle of the front; 

 antennae with the first joint moderately large, conical, the second nearly as long 

 as broad, the third a little smaller than the second, fully twice as long as broad, 

 slightly enlarged at the tip and bearing a long bristle, the fourth minute, conical. Ocelli 

 six in number, four of which are large and prominent and arranged from above down- 

 ward in a scarcely curving row, its convexity forward and a little downward, the upper 

 three at nearly equal distances apart, about the diameter of one of them, but the upper 

 two slightly nearer, tlie third slightly nearer the fourth or lowest than the first; the 

 other two, the fifth and sixth, are smaller and less prominent and are sitn.ated behind 

 the others, one behind the. second and the other above it, so that with the first and 

 third they are placed at the angles of a regular lozenge. Labrnm moderately large, 

 not very broadly, pretty deeply notched In front. Mandibles moderately large, not 

 long but quite broad, the edge rudely, coarsely and slightly notched. Maxillary palpi 

 very small, short and stout, the joints of about equal length and of decreasing magni- 

 tude, the fourth minute; inner palp very inconspicuous. Spinneret very small, short, 

 conical, finely pointed. 



Body cylindrical, larger throughout than the head, thougli in the second stage it 

 is of the same size as the head, nearly equal, tapering forward a little on the first 

 two thoracic segments and to a greater extent from tlie sixth abdominal segment 

 backward, the last segment tapering quite rapidly so as to be bluntly conical; in other 

 parts nearly equal. Each segment, excepting the last abdominal, divided by trans- 

 verse lines into six subequal parts, the eighth abdominal into four, the fiftli 

 part, counting from the front, occurring only on the sides of the thoracic segments. In 

 the second stage the segments are each divided by four transverse impressed lines, as 

 distinct as the sutures, into five equal parts. Body covered uniformly and pretty 

 abundantly with minute warts, each giving rise to a single short, delicate, erect, taper- 

 ing hair. Spiracles obovate, nearly twice as long as broad. Legs prominent, the 

 front pair about half as large as the others, tlie basal fleshy portion of all very large 

 and protuberant, the whole tapering rapidly and pretty regularly, the apical joint 

 approssed, the claw minute, delicate, slender, compressed, finely pointed, but little 

 curved. Prolegs pretty plump and stout, tapering rapidly, not very long, the pad cir- 

 clet of the ventral pairs small, with from 20-2-t hof)klets arranged in a curving double 

 row ; the hooklets are rather long, pretty strongly curved, compressed, tapering a very 

 little, bluntly pointed, separated from each other by two or three times their diameter. 



Chrysalis. Viewed from above, the anterior part of the body, in front of the basal 

 wing tubercles, is triangular, the base and sides nearly equal, the latter almost straight, 

 a little full over the eye and part of the prothorax, the frontal tubercle forming the 

 apex of the triangle. Over the whole extent of the wings the sides are equal and parallel , 

 very slightly hollowed at the first abdominal segment. Beyond the body tapers, at 

 first gradually, afterwards a little more rapidly. The frontal tubercle is conical, the 

 eyes and the front between them a little protuberant, most noticeable anteriorly, the 

 lower surface as far as the wing tips considerably curved, being swollen just beyond the 

 middle of the wings, boluiid which the curve is more rapid than in front of it; tongue 

 extending a short w.ay beyoiul the antenn.ae and both falling considerably short of the tip 

 of the wings, the apical fourth of the lower edge of which meet along the middle line; 



