EUrsEUDOSOMA. 



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Stage 3. Clypcus luteous ; a vinous spot on vertex; waits 

 round, produced, colourless except the subdorsal warts of somites 2, 

 3 which are vinous, and ii, of 11-12 wliicli are orange; i. small, 

 ii., iii. large, v. small, vi. large, produced ; the vinous colour 

 covering dorsum on 2-9. 



Stage 4. Head rounded, slightly bilobed ; jaws black at tip ; 

 body short, thick, pale testaceous tinged with vinous, the oblique 

 streaks on somites lU-12 dark ; warts rounded, elevated ; hair 

 dense, stitt", tlesh-coloured with black ti})s, Ijarbuled ; somite 4 with 

 a diffused dorsal black patch, the hair from tubercle i. and part of 

 ii. sliort, black ; a slight similar shade on somite 9. 



Stage 5. Antenna) rather long ; the markings replaced by dense 

 hair, but the diHused dorsal black patches present; hair bright 

 brown with black tips, wdth a few long pale hairs overhanging the 

 head ; a slight black-crested tuft on uppers^^ide of tubercle i. on 

 somite 4. 



Stage 6. Head whitish, with large, thick, irrorated, U-shaped 

 black mark bordering clypeus, with a short sjuir at sides below ; 

 antenna) pale ; body rounded, flattened ventrallj-, and depressed at 

 ends, clothed with dense brush-like pale yellowish hair, the ends 

 slightly brown-tufted ; somites 2, 3 with long slender \\ hite pencils 

 from subdorsal warts ; warts i.-vi. large and rather contiguous. 



Stage 7. Head pale yellow, with a diffused reddish shade on face 

 of each lobe, the paraclypeal pieces and some dots on clypeus grey ; 

 later the head becoming dark orange-red. Some of the larva? 

 alike till this stage came out with variously coloured hair, yellow, 

 mouse-grey, chocolate-brown, and orange-red, the colour residing in 

 the spinulose part of the hair, in all the thoracic pencils being 

 white ; later the colours became dull, yellow and chocolate-brown 

 forms remaining till mature. 



Cocoon formed of hair felted on a delicate silk web ; pupa dark 

 brown. Food-plant, Eugenia buxifolla, E. procera, and Fsidiam 

 PI/ rife ra. 



Sect. III. Hind wing with vein 8 from middle of cell in cT , from angle in 2 • 

 the costii not lobed. 



1230. Eupseudosoma agramma, n. sp. 



Eupsmdosoma involufum, Druce, Eiol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. G91 (part.). 



Pure white; palpi above 

 and antenna) tinged with 

 fuscous ; vertex of head 

 yellow ; fore legs fuscous 

 /^^ above ; abdomen crimsou 

 above with dorsal series 

 of white points, the 1st 

 and two terminal seg- 



Fig.21. 



Plnijscudosoma agramma, cf . 



ments and tlie ventral 

 surface wliite ; wings 

 pure white. 



