1900] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 487 



band changes to pinkish white, fainter on top of sixth; on its 

 whole length it is sharply faced above with dark blue-purple 

 (varying in some specimens to blue-brown) which fades into 

 the light white-green of dorsum. The remaining six lateral 

 oblique lines, are, mutatis mutandis, similarly arranged, only 

 that the yellow band is brighter and wider and the dark facing 

 above is more distinctly red-purple, than in the first line. The 

 last of these lateral oblique bands, the seventh, ends at the 

 base of the caudal horn, into the under portion of which the 

 yellow band fades. Between and under each of these seven 

 lateral bands, starting at beginning and near top of the last 

 segment which each band covers, is a greenish parallel line 

 converging with its fellow from the other side on the dorsum. 

 Caudal horn clear yellow-green covered with yellow dark- 

 tipped granulations. Anal lap edged with clear yellow-green. 

 The oval stigmata whitish buff, thinly edged with black, with 

 black central line. Rim of prolegs yellow, hooks black. True 

 legs buff, black jointed. A central greenish blue interrupted 

 dorsal line for whole length of body. 



The half-grown larvae are of a clearer yellow above the 

 r^^^-colored oblique lateral bands and abruptly blue-green 

 below the whitish yellow underfacing of same. These lines 

 appear distinctly elevated, like ridges, up to the last moult. 



Several days before pupation, the blue-green of the body 

 becomes a yellow-green and all the colors and markings less 

 distinct, the purple of the lateral stripes becoming a dirty green- 

 blue, and fading into colors above it, not sharply cut as in 

 earlier stage, and the larva becomes much stouter and some- 

 what shorter. 



My larvae descended to the bottom of an 8 inch layer of sifted 

 earth in the cage, each making a compact broadly elliptical 

 cell, about four by two and one-half inches; the earth in the 

 cell-wall being so firmly pressed together that the cell retained 

 nearly its whole shape when the earth was turned out of the 

 jars. 



The pupae that I obtained varied from two and 7-10 inches 

 to three inches in length, and from 7-10 to % inches in greatest 

 diameter (at far end of wing). The "tongue case" is very 



