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the cell and one beyond, and a white costal patch. Hmd 

 wings fulvous, with a median pale yellow band trav- 

 ersed by two black lines near the edges, so as to be three 

 nearly complete bands. Inside this band are six spots of 

 the same color, — two in the cell, three above, and one be- 

 low. Beyond the median band is a subterminal row of 

 crescents, with a row of black pupilled spots between the 

 band and the crescents; all the light spots edged with 

 black. Fringes white, black at the ends of the veins. 



The eggs are lemon-yellow, in shape the frustum of 

 a cone, with fifteen or sixteen longitudinal ribs which are 

 elevated above the surface more in the middle than at 

 either extremity. 



The young larva is cylindrical, yellow-green, some- 

 what pilose ; head obovoid, bilobed, the vertices rounded, 

 dark brown. 



After the first moult the larva is armed with seven 

 rows of short black spines, tapering, and thickly set with 

 short black bristles. Color yellow-brown. Very little 

 change takes place after the second moult, save that the 

 color is ochre-yellow, with five transverse black stripes 

 on each segment. After the fourth moult the color is 

 red or orange ochraceous, striped as before, three to a 

 segment. In coming to maturity it moults five times. 



The mature larva is of a deep red fulvous color, crossed 

 by bKck stripes, one before and two after each transverse 

 row of spines, and with a dorsa^ black 

 stripe. The last two joints are nearly ^^^' ^^• 



all black, and on joints 9 to 11 the ^j^^l^MJikt^ 

 fulvous bands are spotted. The spines WPrrnr^Tr" 

 are in seven principal rows, with a row ^* "*''"'"• ^"'*- 

 of smaller ones just above the feet. The spines are long 



