EREBIA III. 



of which is supposed to be about 40° Far., the year round. I received them 

 again 5th April following, two alive and healthy. During the night of 14th- 

 15th April, one passed a moult. 



At fourth moult: length, twelve hours after, .65 inch; color over dorsal area 

 brownish-green, the sides pale brown-yellow ; the mid-dorsal band intense black ; 

 a pale black, almost faded out, sub-dorsal line, a stripe of pale black on middle 

 of .side ; the basal ridge more yellow, and imder it a macular black line ; gradu- 

 ally, as the stage progressed, the brown passed away, and by the sixth day from 

 the moult, the body was decidedly green, as shown in Fig. /I At about twelve 

 days from fourth moult, the larva was fully grown. 



Mature Lauva. — Length one inch; body stout, thickest in middle, arched 

 dorsally, the last segments curving rapidly ; 1-3 ends in two short bluntly 

 rounded sub-conical tails (Fig. y^), the S2:)ace between nearly a right angle; 

 whole surface densely covered with fine, .sharp, conical tubercles, each giving a 

 short tapering process (Fig.y^) or hair; color a delicate yellow-green, the under 

 ■side more green, as are also the pro-legs; the legs brown-yellow; the mid-dorsal 

 band narrow, widest on middle segments ; high on the side, a rather indistinct 

 yellowish stripe ; the basal ridge greenish ; head sub-globose, covered with shal- 

 low brown pits (the lithographic artist has represented the face in/^ as if cov- 

 ered with raised tubercles, and the mistake was not noticed in time to correct it) ; 

 color pale yellow-brown, the ocelli black. (Fig./, side view as in/"). Fi'om 

 fourth moult to pupation about seventeen days. 



Chrysalis. — Length .48 inch; breadth across mesonotum .16, across abdo- 

 men, .18 inch; cylindrical, abdomen stout, conical, the ventral outline nearly as 

 much curved as the dorsal, ending in a short spur, wliich is furnished at and 

 near the bluntly rounded tip with a few verj' short, straight bristles (Figs, g^, 

 (f, g'') ; head ca.se .short, projecting little beyond base of mesonotum, but pro- 

 duced on ventral side considei'ably, so that the ventral outline from summit to 

 middle of wing cases is much excavated (the entire ventral outline, from sum- 

 mit to cremaster forms a double curve) ; the top narrow, a little convex, the sides 

 notched ; mesonotum low, scarcely at all carinated, rounded both ways, followed 

 by a shallow excavation ; color whitey-brown, much specked with brown-yellow, 

 especially on dorsal side ; the head case and mesonotum marked by abbreviated 

 brown streaks, the most conspicuous of wliich are three converging on the 

 carina and sides of mesonotum ; the antenntB and tongue cases also indicated by 

 black lines ; the wing cases have eleven or twelve black longitudinal streaks. 



