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horizontal. Both are pale green and indistinct. Lateral band pale 
creamy yellow. Head small; blackish; legs pale brown with a pale 
green band along their base. A well-marked dorsal ridge. Length 
9 mm. 
Fourth instar—Length at commencement of instar about 9.3 mm. 
Piliferous tubercles whitish; some smaller dark tubercles present. 
At the end of the instar the body is pale green; median line dark green, 
broad bordering band yellowish-green, oblique dashes distinct, yellow- 
ish-green, the following sub-horizontal and horizontal bands of the same 
color but more ebscure, the whitish spiracles running along the upper 
edge of the latter band. Lateral band yellowish-white, ventrad becom- 
ing indistinct pale lilac, present on all the segments, plainest from seg. 
2-10, and of a pale green color around the last segments. A pale green- 
ish-yellow band on four prolegs. A long transverse plate (?) on seg. 
10, with some dark tubercles. Eversible sacs whitish. Long hairs on 
each side of dorsum, some laterad and others on the sub-lateral fold. 
There are some small dark piliferous tubercles especially anteriorly, and 
the whole body is covered with a whitish pile. The larva is slug-shaped, 
with the posterior portion flattened, the segmentation is distinct, and 
the small black head usually deeply inserted into the apparently hori- 
zontal first segment. There is a distinct dorsal ridge, and some depres- 
sions along the sides of the body. Length 15. mm., width 4.75 mm. 
There is color variation here as in the preceding stages; the larvae are 
sometimes greenish yellow, while those reared in tin boxes are more 
brightly marked than those taken in the field (on which specimens the 
descriptions are made), being of a more lilac tone. 
Pupa.—Stout; venter nearly straight; dorsum rounded; thorax and 
wing covers pale grayish green; abdomen pale wood brown, minutely 
reticulate; median line appearing through cuticle as a rough rusty- 
brown line, broad on the abdomen, narrow on the mesothorax, where 
it is nearly black, and wide again and dark on the wood-brown pro- 
thorax, where it diffuses along its margin heavily anteriorly and lat- 
erally. A very fine greenish line runs through the dorsal line of the 
thorax. A latero-dorsal brownish-black blotch on the anterior portion 
of the mesothorax, and just lateral of this a roughened shoulder blotch. 
Another dusky patch in the basal angle of the primaries, and a more 
compact one on the first abdominal segment in the angle of the second- 
aries. Abdomen in strongly-marked specimens has the pale dorsal area 
emphasized by the dusky subdorsal to ventral reticulations and blotch- 
ings; in paler pupae the dorsum is not well differentiated from the rest 
of the abdomen. On segs, 2-6 of abdomen are latero-dorsal depressions 
their centers ringed with black. Spiracles brownish, and on segs. 
5-8 in pale yellowish-brown areas. A smooth transverse slit on dorsum 
of the seventh abdominal segment. Head pale wood-brown with an- 
tennae, maxillae and wing-veins peppered or blotched with dusky. A 
