482 Dr, Harry lin ham on the Larvae and 
as dark mole-colour with one or two tiny white and brown 
spots posteriorly. It is very eryptic and, except in colour, 
resembles that of Hpamera farquharsoni. The example 
figured produced a male which emerged 2.3.12. Length 
11 mm. Lamborn, Oni. 
Epamera farquharsoni Beth.-Bak. Plate XIII, figs. 6, 
10, 12. 
Larva (fig. 6). This larva is described as ‘ wonder- 
fully cryptic’ and is of a green colour with tiny points 
of brown or red. | have drawn it from the dorsal aspect, 
as that point of view seems best to illustrate the very 
remarkable “ mantle edge”’ or fringe of processes, which 
evidently enable the insect to blend so perfectly with the 
surface on which it is resting as to make it practically 
indistinguishable. These processes are extensions of the 
thick fibrous cuticle and their irregular outline adds greatly 
to their efficacy. The dorsal part of the larva is not 
ridged, but rounded, its regularity broken by small raised 
processes as shown in the figure. Farquharson records 
how, having found one of these larvae, he immediately 
afterwards cut another in two before realising its presence 
(p. 368). The cuticle (fig. 12) differs considerably from that 
of timon and paneperata. It does not show the squamoid 
surface, and the chitinanths, though somewhat resembling 
those of paneperata, are nevertheless quite distinct. Length 
of larva 18 mm. Farquharson. Moor Plantation, Jan. 1918. 
Pupa. Fig. 10 shows one of the pupa-cases in its natural 
position just “above a flower cushion of the Loranthus. It 
is placed with its long axis at right angles to that of the stem, 
and in nature is probably far less conspicuous than it 
appears in the drawing. The pupa is very short, the 
abdominal segments well rounded, and projecting high 
above those of the thorax. The whole surface is rough 
and irregular with occasional smoothly rounded tubercles, 
On the Ist abdominal segment is a slight concavity very 
darkly coloured and having the appearance of a hole. The 
mark is nearly round, but appears slightly elongated in the 
drawing owing to the foreshortening. There is a smaller 
more rudimentary mark on the next segment. These 
marks produce an effect which is much more highly elabor- 
ated in the “ gall” pupa already described. Length 12 mm. 
Farquharson, Moor Plantation. Jan. 1918. 
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