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the two inner rows being the most prominent; except spots mentioned 

 the color is pale brown, slightly mottled with darker brown; on each 

 wing case is a discal cuneiform spot of brown, very small and indistinct. 



Larva feeds on Malhombre. 



Pupal state lasts about six weeks, and the Imago is very common, 

 especially during the summer months. 



Smyrna Bloomfildia, Fab. Larva. — Length i>^-i^ inches, 

 rather slight in formation. Head flattened and entirely brown, two 

 thick and rough truncated horns of same color; skin of body smooth, 

 with three or four transverse folds on posterior portion of each seg- 

 ment. Segment 2 has two dorsal and two lateral brisdes. Segments 

 3 and 4 have each two dorsal and one lateral spine, and the other seg- 

 ments to twelfth have each three dorsal and two lateral spines. Seg- 

 ment 12 has four dorsal spines, the inner two being sub-dorsal, one 

 anterior and one posterior. The anal segment has also four, two being 

 extremely short. The color is dorsally black, with two narrow irreg- 

 ular vellow streaks, which join at each sub-dorsal spine, and there are 

 also numerous small yellow spots where the segments join. Laterally 

 the body is pale yellow, with a greenish streak, interrupted on each 

 segment by a black stigma. Underneath greenish white. 



Pupa: very similar to Smyrna Karwiiiskii, but the segments are 

 quite smooth, and without any protuberances. The velvety spots on 

 the thorax are the same, but the depression at first segment is not so 

 conspicuous nor darkly colored. The general color is brown, mottled 

 with minute black lines. 



Larva feeds on Malhombre. 



This species and Smyrna Karwinskii are commonly called by the 

 natives "Caseras," owing to the frequency with which they alight on 

 the walls and eaves of the houses. 



Anisota Suprema, Hy. Edw. Larva.— Length 2)^ inches. Head, 

 second segment and anal segment yellow, other segments dorsally 

 black, the third having, however, a yellowish sub-dorsal line. The 

 .second segment has three dorsal spines, the centre one having a red 

 spot at its base; this segment has also four small black spots dorsally 

 and one laterally. Beginning on third segment are four dorsal and a 

 lateral row of short pointed spines, black. The two inner dorsal spines 

 on segment 3 are, on the contrary, long and blunt at tips; anteriorly 

 on each of these segments are four, and posteriorly two patches of 

 small white spots; laterally on first three segments of body the color is 

 yellow, and on successive segments reddish brown, showing between 

 the same the black spots which mark the exterior portion of the ab- 

 domen. Abdominal legs yellowish, with a small black spot at ex- 

 tremity, and at base a short black line and circle of small white spots. 

 Underneath segments 2, 3 and 4 are yellow, the following segments 



