DESCRIPTION OF THE CUKRANT AMPHIDASYS. 99 



Fig. 16.— Larva of the Currant Amphidasys, AMf BtBAS'^S icoONAtAtttA. 



brown with a greenish tinge, somewhat bhiish laterally and on the last 

 segment. On segments three to seven, a subdorsal white spot on the 

 anterior of each. Collar, along its front edge, with a line of reddish- 

 brown granulations, ending each side in a brown tubercle. On eighth 

 segment, two subdorsal pyriform yellowish tubercles, bearing numerous 

 dark-brown granulations, and on the eleventh segment, two similar nlore 

 yellowish ones, more approximate and less elevated and with fewer 

 granulations; back of these on the terminal Segment, the granulatiofts 

 art whitish. Prolegs upon the ninth and last (twelfth) Segment only; 

 the latter pair spread laterally in Walking, are bordered behind with short 

 whitish spines, and their extreme hinder portion beneath the anal shield, 

 bears two fleshy horns which come together when moving like a forceps, 

 almost serving as an additional pair of prolegs. Beneath, on segments 

 five, six and seven, each, a yellowish wart, of which the middle one is 



