PAMPHILIDI: THE GENUS LIMOCHORES. 1713 



of erect and loosely compacted scales entirely inconspicuous. The scales found ni 

 the heart of the stignia consist of jointed threads, composed of seven or eight joints, 

 two-pronged, slender scales at the extreme base of the stigma, accompanied by 

 oblanceolate scales here and at the tip of the stigma, while as special androconia 

 occur many spatnlate rods. 



Legs 2, 3, 1. Femora and tibiae clotlied as in Polites. Femora 2, 1,3; tibiae 2,3,1; 

 tarsi 3, 2, 1. Fore femora scarcely longer than the hind, two-thirds the length of the 

 middle femora. Fore tibiae less than two-thirds the length of the fore femora, three- 

 flfths the length of the middle tibiae, which are scarcely longer than the hind pair and 

 but little longer than the fore femora. Leaf-like appendage of the fore tibiae rather 

 small, long and very slender, originating a little before the middle of the outer two- 

 thirds of the joint and surpassing its tip considerably, but much curved and tapering 

 almost throughout to a blunt point, about five or sis times longer than broad; other 

 tibiae armed at the tip with a pair of very long and slender, very unequal spurs, the hinder 

 tibiae also with a secondary pair of similar but scarcely shorter spurs in the middle of 

 the apical two-thirds; both tibiae, but most conspicuously the middle, with an inferior 

 outer row of four or five long spines, less conspicuous in some species, and especially 

 the larger, than in others. Tarsal joints 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, excepting the fore legs, where 

 they are 1, 2, 3, 5, i. Fore tarsi three-fourths the length of the middle tarsi, which 

 are scarcely shorter than the hind tarsi, all furnished beneath with a triple row of 

 pretty long and slender spines, the apical ones of each joint a little larger than the 

 others; basal joint scarcely longer than the second, tliird and fourth together, except- 

 ing on the fore legs of the largest species, where it nearly equals the rest of the tarsus ; 

 second about half as long as the basal joint. Claws small, delicate, tapering, pretty 

 strongly arcuate, finely pointed. Pad generally pretty large, tumid. Paronychia as 

 in Thymelicus. 



Abdominal appendages : Upper organ similar to that of Thymelicus, though nearly 

 destitute of an inferior tooth. Clasps broad, a little convex, about twice as long as 

 broad and approximately sabre-shaped, being curved a little upward and always pro- 

 duced to a point at the apex above, unprovided with bristly spines. Intromitteut 

 organ furnished at tip with lateral curving laminae beset with long pointed spines. 



Egg. Not very high, broadest at base, above it at first scarcely narrowing, broadly 

 domed above, the extreme summit nearly flat over a space less than half the diameter 

 of the base. Surface broken by very delicate but distinct raised lines into pretty 

 regularly pentagonal cells of very small size, punctate within. Micropyle very slightly 

 sunken in a shallow saucer-shaped depression, consisting of eight or nine kite-shaped 

 cells concentrically arranged, followed by as many angular cells of twice the size and 

 these by still larger, gradually and very soon merging into the ordinary cells of the 

 upper surface, which are larger but no more distinctly marked. 



Caterpillar at birth. Head appressed, globose, fully half as broad again as the 

 thoracic segments. Body broadest on the front abdominal segments, but almost 

 parallel sided, well rounded above, rather flattened beneath. Dermal appendages 

 (86 : 52, 53) arranged in the following series : alaterodorsal, turned inward, one to a 

 segment, anteriorly placed, becoming subdorsal and centrally placed on the thoracic 

 segments; a lateral, one to a segment, posteriorly placed on the abdominal, centrally 

 placed on the thoracic segments ; a suprastigmatal, one to a segment, placed just in 

 advance of the middle; and an infrastigmatal, two to a segment in the abdominal 

 region, one placed anteriorly, one centrally, one to a segment anteriorly placed in the 

 thoracic region. 



Mature caterpillar. Body largest on the fourth to fifth abdominal segments, taper- 

 ing toward either extremity, the head no larger than the second thoracic segment. 

 Without longitudinal markings except the dorsal line due to the dorsal vessel and a 

 slight stripe along the infrastigmatal fold ; covered profusely with minute wartlets to 

 which the coloring is largely due. Thoracic shield conspicuous, reaching from just 

 above the spiracle of one side to the same point on the other. There are two series of 

 crateriform or lenticular disks down the sides of the body, probably laterodorsal and 

 laterostigmatal. This description is necessarily very imperfect. 215 



