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" Larva , Last Stage. Head shining luteo-castaneous, 

 the ocellar field, labrum and clypeus black. Body pallid 

 fuliginous, the harder parts glistening; dorsal shield of 

 first thoracic segment luteous, inconspicuous ; surface cov- 

 ered with longer or shorter erect bristles, which are very 

 fine, and taper to an exquisitely fine point ; they are blackish 

 at base, but beyond testaceous ; the longer ones are nearly 

 as long as the breadth of the body, and are situated in lateral 

 and infrastigmatal series ; the shorter ones are hardly as long 

 as the segments, and are distributed on the sides of the body ; 

 there is also a series of intermediate in length and laterodorsal 

 in position, situated in the middle of the larger anterior divi- 

 sion of the segments, while the lateral series lies on the 

 smaller posterior section ; under surface and prolegs pallid, 

 the claws luteous. Length, 15 mm." (Fig. 1, b and c.) 

 (Scudder.) 



" Chrysalis. Nearly uniform, very pale honey yellow, 

 more pallid beneath; the wings, excepting at base, with a 

 very slight olivaceous tinge ; all the thoracic and the first 

 two abdominal segments, as well as the wings and legs, 

 finely edged at the incisures with dark castaneous, darkest 

 near the head ; all the abdominal segments are bordered pos- 

 teriorly, at least on the dorsal surface, with pale testaceous ; 

 lips of spiracles fuscous ; cremaster blackish or blackish fus- 

 cous. Length, 7.75 mm. ; breadth, 2.25 mm." (Fig. 1, d.) 

 (Scudder.) 



