NO. 7 



THE GOLD-BANDED SKIPPER CLARK 



29 



SECOND-STAGE CATERPILLAR 

 Plate 6, figs. 31, 32; text fig. E, p. 29 



The head capsule is i.i mm wide at the widest part. 



The head is more coarsely rugose than in the first stage. On the 

 summit of the lobes are several well-separated, scalelike, more or less 

 thin, sharply pointed triangular processes standing directly upward or 

 leaning slightly forward. The hairs are much more numerous than in 

 the stage preceding, but shorter. They are longest about the mouth 

 parts. 



The short, blackish, apically enlarged bristles with flaring ends 

 standing on conical papillae are much more numerous on the dorsal 

 surface than in the first stage, and more irregularly scattered. 



The lower portions of the sides of the segments below the stigmata 

 bear numerous short hairs. 



Heads of second- to fifth-stage caterpillars of Rhabdoidcs ccllus. 



Figs. E-H. — E, second stage. F, third stage. G, fourth stage. H, fifth stage. 

 Figs. F-H are all on the same scale, much less magnified than fig. E. The head 

 of the first stage is shown on plate 7, figs. 49, 50. 



The sides of the prolegs bear numerous short hairs. 



The end of the body bears numerous hairs of various lengths, 

 though none of them are very long. 



The head is deep maroon, almost black, without markings. The 

 first pair of thoracic legs is dark, almost as dark as the head, but the 

 others are of the same color as the body. 



The maximum size for this stage is 8 mm in length. 



THIRD-STAGE CATERPILLAR 

 Plate (), fig. ^T, ; text fig. F, p. 29 



The head capsule is 2 mm wide at its widest part. 



The scalelike prominences on the summit of the head lobes are 

 more numerous than in the preceding stage, and the hairs are also 

 more numerous. 



