NEONYMPIIA I. 



feet and legs green; head sub-pyriform, truncated, higher and narrower in pro- 

 portion than before, the horns longer, more tapering, less divergent, slightly 

 curved forward, about as long as the face ; the space between them not angular, 

 but concave ; color of head and horns brown, pale on front face, and green- 

 tinted ; from base of each horn a dark stripe passes down the side of face, and 

 there is a second such stripe in front. (Figs, c, c^.) Duration of this stage, in 

 August five days, in October ten, in May seven. 



After second moult : length .34 inch ; nearly the same shape, the tails longer; 

 color pale green, the stripes as before ; head nearly as at second stage, the horns 

 more divergent ; color of front face deep green, the back of head dull green, 

 the stripes and horns reddish-brown. (Figs, d, (P.) Duration of this stage, in 

 August five days, in May eight. 



After third moult, in autumn : length .55 inch; same shape ; color soiled white, 

 greenish on dorsum next head ; the dorsal stripe dark, the sub-dorsal and basal 

 brown. 



At four days from the moult : length .72 inch ; color now drab on dorsum, the 

 median and sub-dorsal .stripes darker; sides red-brown, the two lines buff; basal 

 stripe yellow-buff; under this, a broad black-brown stripe the length of body; 

 tails drab, reddened at tips. 



Mature Larva. — Length .96 inch; slender, the dorsum slightly arched; 

 ending in two long, conical, sharp-pointed tails, which meet at base ; the whole 

 surface finely and sharply tuberculated, most of the tubercles giving out a short 

 white hair ; color buff and reddish-gray in bands and stripes ; a narrow gray 

 mid-dorsal stripe, then a broad buff band to verge of dorsal area, and edged by a 

 reddish line; next a broad gray lateral band, with a narrow buff stripe below; 

 the basal stripe yellow-bui¥ ; beneath this a partly obsolete blackish band ; tiiils 

 drab, red at tips ; feet and legs brown ; head sub-pyriform, truncated, on each 

 vertex a long, conical, pointed horn, but little divergent, the space between the 

 two at base concave ; color drab, both back and face ; horns drab behind, black- 

 brown in front and between ; a broad black-brown stripe down the front face, 

 and a narrow one on side from base of horn. (Figs, g, natural size, /, /^, /^ 

 magnified.) In August, ten days from third moult to chrysalis. 



Mature Larva, in May, from eggs laid in April: color light yellow-green, the 

 dorsal stripe darker, the sub-dorsal and lateral lines and basal stripe yellow ; tails 

 pink-tipped ; head sordid greenish-white front and back, the stripes brown, horns 

 red-brown. From third moult to pupation five and six days. All the larvie, 

 ten in number, of this April and May brood were green. (Fig. e, magnified.) 



