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NOTES ON THE EARLY STAGES OF SOME 

 HETEROCERA. 



By Henry Edwards. 



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Clostera inclusa. Hbn. Yo2uig larva. 



Head black, shining, with double fovea in front. Second 

 segment edged in front with bright yellow. Body black, with a 

 series of bright yellow longitudinal stripes, those of the dorsum 

 being the most distinct : 4 and 1 1 have small black tubercles in 

 the centre. All the segments bear small jet black piliferous tub- 

 ercles. The hairs of the body are all sordid white. Anal seg- 

 ment black. Under side dull yellow. Feet black at the tips. 



Length (after first moult) 18 m. m. 



Feeds in companies until after the second moult, the larvae 

 then separate and act independently of each other. 



Thyridopteryx EPHEMERIF(3RMIS. Steph. Yojing larva. 



Head, 2d, 3d, 4th and anal segments pitchy, the rest of the 

 body being dull smoky gray. Thoracic legs pitchy, concolorcus 

 with the anterior segment. Abdominal legs aborted, concolorous 

 with posterior segments. After about six hours exclusion from 

 the egg they begin to form their baskets of whatever material, 

 may be at hand, and do not appear to eat until the first basket 

 covering is found. They are particularly active little creatures, 

 and move very swiftly, with the posterior segments erect. 



Catocala parta. Giien. Larva. (Full grown.) 



Dull fawn color. Head, as in all the genus, flattened on the 

 top, with deep frontal sinus. A black line surrounds the head, 

 except at the junction with the second segment. There is a 

 pale brownish dorsal line, and a sub-dorsal one, slightly waved, on 

 each segment, and enclosing a darker space. These lines are most 

 apparent at the junction of the segments. A rather broad, brown- 

 ish lateral line, slightly waved, encloses the spiracles, which are 

 brown. Feet and legs concolorous with the body. At the ex- 

 treme lateral edge is a row of short sharp cilise. 



Length 2.80 inch. 



Willows. (A. W. P. Cramer.) 



DePRESSARIAHERACLIANA. De G^^<fr.-ONTARIELLA. BetJmuc. 



Larva. (Full grown.) 



Genera,l color pale yellowish-gray, with a deeper yellow cast 

 along the sides. Head and forepart of the second segment jet 

 black, shining. On 3 and 4 are eight rather large black shining 

 tubercles and two smaller ones, the latter placed dorsally. On 

 the other segments the tubercles are all of the same size, arranged 

 eight in front of and around the segment, the remaining two 

 upon the dorsum. The thoracic legs are jet black, the abdom- 

 inal concolorous with the body, with black ring at their base. 



Length 18 m. m. 



