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lateral patch on either side, just in front of the black dorsal 
spot. A broad, white cross band just back of the 3rd pair of 
true legs. Head light gray with a black marginal line down 
each side and above. The third pair of prolegs as large and 
prominent as the end props. A row of small, middorsal, 
rounded, connected white spots with black boundaries. As the 
larva lies flat on the stem, it furnishes a strong case of pro- 
tective mimicry. 
From April 22nd to 24th the fifth moult occurred. Just after 
this moult, the larve vary in length from one and a half to quite 
two inches, possessing small, light-colored tubercles, each set 
with a bristle and the entire body with a lateral fringe of short 
sete. 
Head much larger; the body a little darker than before but 
without any black spots. Head with encircling band of black. 
Both true and false legs light. Whole body with light and dark 
gray longitudinal, irregular stripes or figures. 
In the full grown larva the upper lobes of the head inside the 
black encircling band, yellowish brown. ‘The ground color be- 
comes ashen gray with pale, longitudinal lines, much broken and 
irregular. The hump over the 1st pair of prolegs quite disap- 
pears and the enveloping spot is hardly noticeable. Larva quite 
two and a half inches long. Between the fifth moult and ma- 
turity fifteen of the fifty larvze died. 
The first case or cocoon was spun May the oth, on the ground 
between two leaves. Others spun between folds of paper in 
the breeding jars. The first chrysalids on May 14th or 15th, 
about an inch and a quarter long, dark brown on dorsal side, 
red brown on ventral, abdominal rings, a whitish prunescence 
covering the whole pupa. The first two imagos on June 13th, 
the length of pupal stage being 33 days. ‘The last imago on 
June 2oth. 
Eggs of Catocala cara began hatching on the 29th of 
May. As in C. untjuga, the larve are very small and slender 
and exceedingly active. So much so indeed, that nothing short 
of an air-tight box will prevent their escape. The freshly 
hatched larva is light brown with somewhat darker head and 
rear. About one-fifth of an inch long, rapid in movement and 
