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tip. The harpes narrow quite abruptly before the tip, then dilate, prin- 

 cipally on the lower margin, before terminating in an obliquely rounded 

 tip. The ciasper is well developed, not very broad, the finger long and 

 stout, a little excavated within, wliile there is a short angular ])rocess 

 from the upper margiu, which can hardly be called finger-like. 



LARVA. 



Harris, Ent. Corr., 1869, p. 312, pi. in, fig. 10.— Thaxtkr, Papilio, 1883, III, p. 

 13.— Packaku, Fifth Kept. U. 8. Ent. Comm., 1890, p. 272; Ibid., p. 273 

 {nlmi). 



Eggn. — "Very small, much flattened, whitish." (Thaxter.) 



Stage I. — "Dirty greenish white, without marks; a few white hairs; 

 a subdorsal row, black; head tinged witli brown" (Thaxter). Width of 

 head, probably 0.3 mm. 



Stage II. — Head whitish, not shining, no marks; width, 0.4 mm.; 

 body pale green, with indications of a whitish subdorsal line; warts 

 conic, with a long central seta and crown of short hairs, a few glandular 

 tipped, part light, part dark, some of the small ones black; on joint 12 

 tubercles I and II form a square, IV with only one seta, VI i)resent, 

 the warts much in line transversely; leg i)lates a little yellowish, with 

 several pale setae. Of the four setae on the cervical shield, only the 

 posterior lower one is supplemented by short hairs and elongated into 

 a wart, but there is a row of little hairs along the front edge of thS 

 shield. No secondary hairs on the body as yet. 



Stage III. — Head, 0.7 mm; as before, brighter green ; the i)ale, whit- 

 ish subdorsal line more distinct, continuous; hair dark dorsally, pale 

 subventrally. Later there is a pale brown dorsal shading on joints 2, 

 5, and 12. 



Stage IV. — Head, whitish green, bilobed, the apices pointed; a small 

 patch of brown njottlings in front, below the apex of each lobe; width, 

 1.2 mm. Body green, subdorsal line faint, yellowish; joints 5, 8, and 

 12 shaded dorsally with dark brown; hair long and white. There are 

 a few short secondary hairs; but on the dark patches inclosed by tuber- 

 cles I and II on joints 5, 8, and 12 they are more numerous, black, with 

 enlarged ends; subventrally only a few, and these white. The longer 

 dorsal primary hairs are black. 



Stage V. — Head bilobed, pale green, covered over the apex of each 

 lobe with a large jiatch of spots composed of brown and black dots on 

 a pale whitish ground, the patch reaching to the ocelli; apices of lobes 

 brown; ocelli black; width, 1.8 mm. Body green, a raised brown area 

 dorsally on joints 5, 8, and 12, surrounded by a yellow ring, the one on 

 8 passing also on to 9. Warts small, bearing two to four short black 

 hairs on I to III on abdomen; larger more numerous on warts IV to 

 VI, IV small, behind the spiracle. Secondary hairs rei)resented by 

 minute pile, most distinct in the elevated dorsal i)atches. Tubercles on 

 the edge of the cervical shield blackish,- warts yellowish. 



