GYMNASPiS JXmME^. 131 



GYMNASPIS JECHME^E (Newstead). 

 (PI. XXXIV, figs. 115.) 



Gyinnaspls aecJimese, Newstead ; Entomologist's 

 Monthly Mag., second series, vol. ix, 1898, 

 p. 92. ' 



Female puparium (figs. 1 6) composed entirely of 

 the naked moulted skin of the second-stage female. 

 High convex, more or less circular, anal extremity 

 attenuated; margins produced and convex, entire or 

 constricted over the regions of the spiracles ; the con- 

 strictions irregular and frequently asymmetrical; ir- 

 regularly and widely punctate ; shining black or bronzy 

 black, opaque, and very thick ; the ventral surface as 

 much so as the dorsal. The ventral surface (figs. 5, 6) 

 has a delicate white or ochreous- white secretion upon 

 it which usually bears the impressions of the leaf 

 structure, and sometimes projects beyond the margin 

 of the puparium. 



Diam. -50 -90 mm. 



Adult female (fig. 7) approximately circular, flat 

 beneath, convex above ; margins flat and thin, forming 

 a flange except at the anal extremity. Colour dull 

 purple or mauve, with dusky white margin. Rudi- 

 mentary antennge (fig. 9) usually with three blunt 

 spines. Pygidium (fig. 8) without circumgenital 

 glands. Vaginal opening and anus opposite ; margin 

 with a fringe of blunt tubercles, or extensions of the 

 body- wall, and a few short spines. There are also a 

 few very slender tubercles arising from the extreme 

 margin. 



Puparium of the second-stage female (fig. 10) pur- 

 plish brown, circular, with a broad marginal secretion ; 

 larval exuviae central, naked ; black or bronzy black. 



Diam. '50 mm. 



