84 EEV. A. MILES MOSS ON THE 



darker green above. Spiracles and legs ochreous. Horn perfectly straight, blue, 

 freckled and sharply tipped with yellow. 



Fig. g, green and brown, the colour and markings anticipating those of the final stage 

 as shown in fig./ The caudal horn, though brown in this particular variety, is at 

 this stage always straight and never curved as in its later development. 



Fourtli and -fifth instars. Three designs noted. Fig. j, green with seven oblique 

 yellow-white stripes, the seventh being the longest and most pronounced and terminating 

 behind the horn. Spiracles oclire and very clearly defined in a patch of dark sepia, 

 which in varying breadth and intensity borders the stripes above and connects dorsally 

 in two broad and waved longitudinal bands, lighter behind the head and culminating 

 in the caudal horn, which is now always dark, rather smooth, stout, strongly curved, and 

 sharp-pointed. Ventral area, legs, and all claspers of the same coloration. Head in 

 all cases at this stage light broAvn, heavily marked on the face by four dark lines as 

 ill fig. h. Skin velvety and smooth. 



Fig. h, dark sepia, ochreous dorsally on the leg-segments and behind the horn. Skin- 

 folds above claspers and the I'egion of the last five oblique stripes irregularly marked 

 by dull green. Spiracles very prominent in cadmium-yellow. Anal flap and skin- 

 folds above irregular in shape, lighter in tone, and edged lightly against a dark line. 



Fig. K\ warm olive-brown, with the seven light oblique stripes clearly indicated and 

 darker above. ITorn dark witli a central toucli of ochre posteriorly. Spiracles bright 

 cadmium in a dark sepia patch as in fig. //,. Dorsal area marked by a couple of pale 

 longitudinal bands, commencing darkly on segments 2, 3, and 4 *. There is an 

 interrupted medio-dorsal stripe of rich vinous brown, and the seventh oblique stripe, 

 which is almost white, is strongly surmounted by the same colour. 



Pupa (PI. XV. fig. e). — Yellow-brown and glazed. Prolioscis-sheatli, as in convolvidi, 

 with double turn. Its development upon tlie final moult of the larva is particularly 

 interesting : e. g., proboscis at first bilobed and stumpy, all parts capable of independent 

 movement ; thorax, legs, antennae, etc., shrink and swell alternately before settling, 

 the natural coagulating varnish welding each organ in its place when fully distended. 



34 a. CocTTius aat^eus medoe. (Plates VII. a-d ; XV. a.) 

 R. & J. p. 59. 



General Uistribution. — Florida to South Brazil. 



Commoner on the coast and lower Andes than in the Interior, probably on account 

 of its preference for a certain species of Anona, from which is obtained the well-known 

 " cliirimoya" or custard-apple, an abundant fruit in all the InieHas of the coast region. 

 The larva strips the entire extremity of the outermost branches, and is often observed 



* N.B. — LarvEe are described throughout as possessing 13 segments — 1 being; the licad; 2, 3, and 4 the 

 leg-segments.: 7, 8, 9, 10, and 18 possessing claspers ; and 12 the caudal horn, tail, or hump. 



