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somewhat broadly in the chocolate spiracular blotches ; the spiracular 

 chocolate line more or less along the whole larva, turning white along 

 segments 13, 14 ; spiracles of segments 2 and 11, 12 very slightly larger 

 than rest ; all oval, flush. Colour of body grass-green, the tops of trans- 

 verse ridges dotted alternately white and brown not aflecting the 

 depressed lines ; the main tubercles white ; true legs watery-green ; 

 prolegs light green, marked slightly with brown ; the subdorsal, tubercles 

 of segments 6 — 11 suflused brown for some distance round bases, forming 

 spots. The above is the end of the stage ; the larva has just settled down 

 to begin preparing for the moult which will bring it into the 5th stage ; it 

 is 2 o'clock p.m. of the 28th. 



5th stage. — The larva cast its skin on the morning of the 29th at 8 

 o'clock. On the 1st of September it was as follows : — 24 mm. long by 3 mm. 

 broad. Head round, the lobes less distinctly indicated ; surface similarly 

 shagreened, covered with minute, shiny, deep-brown, slightly raised 

 points, each bearing a short pointed bristle a little longer than itself, all 

 pointing downwards towards the jaws ; clypeus large, triangular, pointed 

 bearing a few brown points with bristles like the rest in its upper half ; 

 eyes verj'^ prominent ; colour of head rather dark grass-green ; the labrum 

 green, longitudinally crinkled ; the ligula shiny, smooth, light green, 

 antennal basal joint green, 2nd suft'used-brownish ; jaws dark -tipped ; eyes 

 suffused brown ; a beginning of a white band through eyes, bordered 

 above and below brown-red representing a continuation of the spiracular 

 band of the body. "Surface of body as in the last stage, the main tubercles 

 white, comparatively smaller, with the surmounting hair comparatively 

 even more minute ; the rest of body bearing similar, still more minute 

 hairs than in last stage ; the tail-points comparatively rather shorter, 

 more widely separated, perhaps blunter ; the anal segment well overhang- 

 ing the anal claspers. The spiracles oval, flush, yellowish-white, thinly 

 dark-bordered, those of segments 2 and 12 much larger than the rest, that 

 of segment 11 slightly larger. Colour of body dark grass-green covered 

 with little dull-red dots; a more or less interrupted, ' spiracular, white, 

 narrow band, bordered above and below by brownish-red, this brownish-red 

 subsisting, where the white is wanting (on some segments in this parti- 

 cular larva) as an interrupted line broadening and darkening in colour 

 on segments 5, 6, 7 ; the white band very distinct 

 on segments 10 to end of 14 and along its hinder 

 margin ; belly, true legs and prolegs somewhat 

 purer green, the true legs slightly suflused with 

 pink, the prolegs more liberally as regards the 

 extremity of their cylindrical portion, the feet 

 lobed and nearly colourless. The length was Foot of Larva. 



27 mm. by 4'o mm. just before pupation when the larva became semi- 

 translucent looking. When full grown it sits with the front segments 3, 4, 

 somewhat hunched and the belly resting flat on the surface and then 

 reminds one of the larvse of Sebomoia glaucipi^e . 



Pupa. — The pupa is very like that of I.vias marianne ; the general shape 

 •as to the wide bulge of the ventral wing-outline and snout to head is the 

 same ; the inclination of the portion composed of segments 1-4 is generally 

 at an angle of 45° to the rest, sometimes at a much greater angle, up to 

 75°. The head is mostly composed, as far as visible from above, by the 

 widened base of the "snout," the cylindrical end-half of which, sometimes 

 straight, sometimes turned up, is as long as the widened basal half ; the 

 transversely convex segment is not quite as long as this half and both front 

 and hinder margins curve towards each other in dorsal line of pupa, each 

 reaching the dorsal line in an angle, not a curve and this dorsal line is in the 

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