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a light apple green shading down to yellow green in the meta- 

 tarsus and tarsus. Near the upper margin of the tibia were four 

 small red rings. One can very well see that even in this early 

 stage there is a good beginning tor the brilliant markings o\ the 

 adult. The next moult took place in ten days. Idle coloring of 

 the cephalothorax and abdomen remained the same except where 

 there had been small white pi ts on the abdomen in the earlier stages 

 there now was a black spine lor every pit. It was in the legs where 

 the greatest change took place. The ground color of the legs was 

 light lemon yellow. Hie coxa was light lemon yellow with three 

 black spots; the trochanter had eight to ten black spots, the upper 

 margin ol this joint being yellow green; the femur had from four 

 to seven black spots, with patches oi apple green. The tibia, meta- 

 tarsus and tarsus were orange with darker orange at the upper and 

 lower margin oi the joints. 1 he tibia and metatarsus have from 

 two to five black spots, the tarsus ot the first two legs has two 

 black spots, the same joint ot the last two legs has none. 1 he 

 light yellow palpi have two black spots on the trochanter, femur 

 and tibia; the other joints are bare. The spines appeared on the 

 legs in this stage, while not all that are found on the legs i)i the 

 adult were found, yet a good portion were started ot very good 

 size. No short hairs had appeared yet iin the body or legs. 



There were two moults between this stage and the next on^' 

 minutely described, but in cither moult there was not any marked 

 external change other than in si/e. The body changed from a 

 round, short, thick shape to a long ova] abdomen with a large 

 cephalothorax to a shape almost like that o\ the adult. (Fig. C, 

 Plate II.) The next stage in the color pattern development 

 occurred when the young was twenty-two days old. (Fig. I), Plate 

 II.) 1 he eye space is beginning to narrow at the lower margin, the 

 median part of the thoracic portion of the cephalothorax is dark 

 brown with light brown center. Phis dark stripe has two horns 

 toward the eye space and two small hair lines at the lower margin 

 ot the cephalothorax which extends to the edges ot the cephalo- 

 thorax. On the edge ot the cephalothorax is a small red line and 

 next to it a dark brown irregular line broken by green spots. The 

 space between the median dark line and the dark irregular brown 



