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•2nd sta(/e. — Head shiny, bristled, green, speckled with brown ; body 

 with rows of little bristles transversely across each segment, mottled with 

 brown, otherwise green ; tail points well developed. 



3/tZ stage. — Head same as in last stage ; body covered densely with 

 small bristles of a brown colour ; reddish-brown spiracular band, darker 

 round the spiracles which are placed on it ; otherwise the colour of larva 

 is green. 



^th stacje. — The head is round, somewhat rugose as to surface, covered 

 with short bristles which are brown on upper part, longer and white 

 around base. The body is broadest immediately behind the head : about 

 segments 3 and 4, narrowing to the narrow anal segment which ends in two 

 contiguous, short, triangular teeth thickened at ends and set with small, 

 brown bristles ; these teeth transparent at ends and red-brown at base. 

 The surface of body is covered with very minute, brown bristles nearly all 

 of one size. The colour is grass-green with a spiracular, yellow, narrow 

 band bordered narrowly by red-brown below and more faintly above, 

 stretching from end to end of larva ; abdomen bluish green. 



htli stage. — The same as above ; head and body covered with very 

 minute, brown bristles amongst which the main-tubercle bristles are 

 hardly perceptible by their slightly greater length ; anal segment trapeze- 

 shaped, the cremaster itself or the part that becomes the cremaster in 

 the pupa being nearly square, the tail-points short but very evident. 

 Spiracles small, nearly flush (perhaps sunk a little), oval, light in colour. 

 L : 28mm. ; B : nearly Smm. 



The larva is somewhat broadened out in segments 3, 4 and sits with the 

 ventrum closely applied to the resting surface at times in the manner of 

 that of Sebomoia glauciiype . 



Pupa. — Is of the same shape as that of /. pyrene described above having 

 the same large parabolic wing-bulge ; the head process slightly curved back 

 (sometimes straight), rather long, cylindrical with conical base. Segment 

 2 straight as to front margin, the hinder margin concave towards the head ; 

 the piece composed of head and segment 2 is trapeze-shaped from above 

 and triangular from side view ; the front part of pupa, composed of seg- 

 ments 1-3, is thrown back at an angle of about 75° to the plane of the 

 abdominal axis, so that the hinder dorsal slope of the humped thorax is 

 inclined to segment 4, 5 at an angle of, say, 110°; the front slope of thorax 

 less steep, the apex broadly rounded ; sides of thorax ( lateral outline of 

 pvipa there) very slightly convex ; wings slightly expanded behind shoulders 

 where the pupa is broadest ; dorsal line of abdomen 

 slightly convex, ventral line slightly concave. The 

 cremaster is square, bifid, the depth of sinvis separating 

 the two points being \ the length of it ; each point 

 is bluntly rounded; the ventral extensor-ridges are 

 parallel and end each in a small free point. The 

 antennae reach to just before the apex of wing-bulge. 

 Surface of pupa like that of /. pyrenne ; the shoulders 

 with a slight tubercle. Spiracles of segment 2 

 indicated by a flat, narrow, light coloured surface let in 

 between the margins of segments 2, 3 ; the others nearly flush with a 

 medial, raised, narrowly oval, lighter centre which has got a depressed line 

 down its longer diameter but posterior to the middle of it ; spiracle of 

 segment 11 not larger than rest; that of segment 12 blind. Colour of 

 pupa livid bone-colour, speckled, dotted and slightly blotched with 

 ochreous brown ; the lateral line from shoulders to end of cremaster (sub- 

 spiracular to hinder margin of segment -5, thence supraspiracular to end) 

 is very much darker, especially along segments 3-5 and 10-14 ; the snout 



