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rather long, with a few setae; all the rest very short, smooth, 

 round and shining. Color pale brown, mottled with darker 

 brown, a white saddle on joints 8-10, pointed posteriorly and 

 reaching forward on the sides; pale subventrally, and a whitish 

 subdorsal line; joint 2 is yellowish, and joints 12 and 13 paler 

 than the rest of the body. Below the tubercles of row iii, on 

 joints 3, 4 and 6, is a velvety-black spot. As the stage advances 

 the color becomes greenish, especially subventrally. 



Third stage. — Head pinkish brown, mouth-parts paler, ocelli 

 black; width 1.8 mm. On joint 2 an ocherous, slightly spinose, 

 subdorsal tubercle, and a slighter one on joint 12, all the rest 

 reduced to round, shining, slight elevations. The body is en- 

 larged at joints 4-6, elsewhere nearly uniform in size. Color 

 dark green, paler at the sides, slightly shaded with blackish and 

 minutely dotted with yellowish; on joints 7-9 a white saddle, 

 excavated before and pointed behind, passing slightly below the 

 obscure, broken, narrow, white, subdorsal line, and containing 

 two faint green dorsal spots; joints 12 and 13 whitish. The tu- 

 bercles of rows i to iii on joint 4 are quite distinct, rounded, 

 shiny dark brown, and connected by a pale brown band. The 

 subdorsal line runs between tubercles ii and iii, and just above it 

 is a black bar, and below it a minute blue dot encircled with 

 black. There are no other blue dots perceptible, but a blackish 

 subdorsal one on joint 9. The elevated shiny dots on joints 3, 

 5 and II are ocherous or brown. Anterior edge of joint 2 yellow; 

 scent-horns brown. . 



Fourth stage. — Head as before; width 2.7 mm.; joint 2 nar- 

 rowly yellow anteriorly, the tubercles on each side of the opening 

 orange tinted. Body dark green, whitish subventrally and mi- 

 nutely dotted with yellowish, only traces of the saddle-shaped 

 spot in diffuse subdorsal whitish patches and an arrow-shaped 

 dorsal spot on joint 9, and even these disappear before the stage 

 is completed. On joints 12 and 13 a small, yellow, subdorsal 

 tubercle. On joint 4 the tubercles of rows i to iii are small, 

 round, orange tinted; the tubercle i has on it and below it an 

 elongated black-ringed patch, a blue dot; below tubercle ii a 

 black line dividing a yellow, black-ringed, pyriform spot that 

 covers tubercles ii and iii, enclosing above tubercle iii a black- 

 ringed blue spot. There are no other blue dots, the places of 

 the absent subdorsal tubercles being slightly paler green than the 



