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Psyche 



[April 



Pupa: (Fig. I.) Free: arcuate; cream colored with ferrugineous tinge on prono- 

 tum; femora, tibia, liead, and tarsi fuscate. Just before emerging the pupa becomes 

 much more strongly colored. Head bent strongly venterad; maxillary palpi very 

 prominent, seciu"iform; eyes almost black. Tips of wing cases extend slightly 

 beyond the anterior margin of second abdominal segment. Metatarsi almost 

 attain posterior margin of fifth abdominal segment. Posterior margin of meta- 

 notum bears a pair of highly chitinized black securiform protuberances which are 

 opposed by a pair of black, chitinized, concave, areas on the anterior margins 

 of the first abdominal segment. First to fifth abdominal segments bearing on sides 



Meracantha contract a. 



of tergites two-lobed protuberances, lobes pointed and anterior one directed up- 

 ward on first to third segment; sixth segment bears a one-lobed protuberance; 

 seventh segment small, and very narrow dorsally; eighth segment ending in a 

 pair of slightly divergent simply pointed processes. Dorsal surface of eighth 

 segment slightly concave. Length 15 mm. 



A fourth individual was about half transformed to a pupa when 

 it was attacked and killed by the larva of a Coleopteron that I 

 have not had determined. The predaceous larva was white in 

 color and very much flattened dorso ventrally, and was placed in 



