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The cervical shield, in the shape of a curved triangle with the 

 base forward, is light green spotted with black. 



Spiracles dark brown. 



The dorsal line is dark green edged on each side with yellow green, 

 the edging being most prominent in the middle of each segment. 

 Starting from the light edging of the dorsal line a yellow line runs 

 obliquely from the front of each segment and is continued on the 

 succeeding segment as a broken sublateral Une". On the first two 

 segments this line is fainter, appearing as a sublateral line only. In 

 some specimens these obliques were not evident until later in this 

 stage. 



The middle of the first ten segments is slightly depressed. The 

 body is covered with small hairs. Venter green. 



Some larvae are green overshot with brown. Dorsal line deep 

 claret. Style of markings the same. 



Time in this stage — 5 days. 



After second moult. — Length, 4 mm. Color, yellow green. Legs 

 and head black. Dorsal line, dark green, widest on the second seg- 

 ment and gradually growing narrower, edged on each side with yellow 

 green. Substigmatal line raised, yellow, and fringed with hairs as 

 before. Cervical shield, pale brown edged with dark green and 

 spotted with black. First segment covered with short, white hairs. 

 Segment 2 bears two long hairs on each side of the dorsal line. 

 Segments 3 to 9 inclusive bear each one long hair on each side of 

 the dorsal line, set in a colorless tubercle. The nth segment bears 

 one long hair on the dorsal line. 



The oblique lines are definite yellowish stripes starting with the 

 light edging of the dorsal line at the anterior part of one segment, 

 cross the segment and appear on the succeeding segment. They are 

 broadly edged below with dark green. These obliques are faint on 

 segment 3 and appear on the second segment as a sublateral line only, 

 edged above and below with dark green. Segments 10 and 11 are 

 marked by a continuation of the obliques of segment 9. 



The tenth segment has the gland as in the preceding stage and 

 on the nth segment below and behind both spiracles are eversible 

 organs. When retracted they leave small, oval, light colored patches ; 

 everted they are white columns crowned with movable straight pro- 

 jections. 



Duration of this stage — 4 days. 



After third moult. — Length, about 8 mm. Color, clear green 

 Markings as in the preceding stage but much more pronounced, 

 especially the dorsal oblique with its wide dark green edging below. 

 Substigmatal line the most conspicuous mark, cream colored, ed-2:ed 

 above and below in the middle of each segment with dark green. 



