1903] DYAR:— GE OME TRIDA E 79 



Stage II. Head rounded bilobed, squarish, a depression at apex of clypeus ; width .5 

 mm. Body moderately robust, normal, subventral fold rather prominent. Greenish and 

 brown, mottled, nearly all green along the subventral fold, venter and dorsum more brown, 

 especially about the feet. Head reddish brown, reticulate in lighter, ocelli black; feet dark. 

 Anal feet and shield reddish, resembling the head. No plates ; tubercles obsolete. 



Stage III. Head high bilobed, flat before, lobes rounded, projecting above the dorsum, 

 pale yellowish sordid, thickly mottled with brown ; width .8 mm. Body rather robust, 

 normal, venter somewhat flattened. Pale yellowish, this color showing on subventral fold 

 but elsewhere thickly mottled in dead leaf brown. Thoracic feet pale greenish, foot of joint 

 ID dark brown outwardly. Anal shield lighter brown, resembling the head. A white patch 

 on each side of clypeus and across it more faintly. 



Stage IV. Head high bilobed, flat before, lobes subconic, projecting rather widely; 

 brown, mottled in white before and also a little with smoky, a blackish arc at apex of cly- 

 peus ; sides less strongly mottled; width 1.3 mm. Body rather short, moderately robust, 

 normal. Smooth green, overlaid with a brown shade, most distinct at the contracted ends ; 

 joints 2-4 and 10-13 slightly shining, without defined markings, only the faintest traces of 

 pale lines showing at the ends. 



Stage V. Head high bilobed as before, red-brown, mottled with white, which forms 

 curved streaks on the faces of the lobes ; vertex behind and sides at neck dark shaded; width 

 2 mm. Body cylindrical with a process on joint 9 bearing tubercle iii, rounded and cushion- 

 like; no cervical shield, anal plate triangular, anal foot plates large, elongate, with stout anal 

 prongs. Light red-brown to dark sordid brown, irregularly shaded, darker on the anterior 

 halves of the segments, darkest ventrally. Feet dark at base. Setae short, stiff, black, from 

 indistinct tubercles. 



Stage VI. Head high bilobed, flattened before, lobes forming low cones, widely sep- 

 arated by a broad notch ; clypeus rather high ; surface shagreened ; wood brown, mottled 

 and shaded with dark brown, darkest in a small patch at apex of paraclypeus ; width 3.6 mm. 

 Body cylindrical, stout, joint 2 slightly collared at the anterior edge and angled subdorsally, 

 the angles dark and preceded by pale marks which are exposed or concealed according to the 

 position of the larva; third pair of thoracic feet usually extended while the first two pair are 

 appressed ; a slight ventral prominence on joints 6, 7, and 8 bearing small spines ; a large 

 lateral conical prominence on joint 9 above and before the spiracle with black spines; a low 

 rounded collared hump on joint 12, marked in pale subdorsally. P'eet normal, a white sub- 

 ventral fringe between those of joints 10 and 12 ; anal plate and leg shields large, gray. 

 Body green, inore or less marked with gray and brown, sometimes mostly brown. The gray 

 occurs in segmentary bands, darkest on joints 9 and 12, the abdominal feet gray. Dorsum 

 brown shaded. Thoracic feet light reddish with nearly black shading at the bases. Spiracles 

 reddish. Skin with many secondary granules, mostly white, but becoming black spines on 

 the humps and clavate, capitate papillae in the subventral fringe of joints 10-12. Primary 

 setae pointed, black, from small black tubercles, normal except that about five setae represent 

 tubercle vii. 



The larvae transformed to large red-brown pupae in the earth and hibernated 

 in this stage. 



