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tubercles are quite laro'e, those on llie tsI and Sth seti'menis 

 scarcely larger than those on the other se.i>nients. 'i'he fud ol 

 the bodv is uplifted both when walking' and at rest. All the 

 abdominal legs arc reddish, and the th(,)racic legs are dark. 



S/cior \[_ — Just molted. July, 1891. Evidently delayed in its 

 growth. Length, 6 mm. Head moderately large, (now wider 

 than the body, as the larva has not begun to feed); it narrows 

 slightly above, and bears on the vertex M'o pilifcrous icarts ivJiicIi 

 are somewhat laviycr than those behni.i on the face, of which there art- 

 five, rather large conical warts, arranged in two rows, each bearing" 

 a bulbous tipped glandular hair; the head is pale sere brown 

 (burnt sienna), with six whitish spots arranged in two vertical 

 rows. The clvpeus and labrum are whitish. The ist thoracic, 

 ist, 3d and Sth abdominal segments each bear two large high 

 dorsal warts, which are dark at the tips; they are flanked by sub- 

 dorsal and lateral warts which are but a little smaller; the dorsal 

 ones in question are much larger and higher than those on the 

 other segments, and the segments themselves are dull pale cherrv 

 red. Thoracic segments 2-3 and abdominal segments 2, 4, 7, 9 

 antl 10, together with the tubercles, are bright yellow. The legs 

 are all pale, though the anal ones are darker and redder. The 

 glandular hairs are still bulbous in this stage, rather short and 

 even; those on the ist thoracii- and 1st, 3d and Sth abdominal 

 segments being longer than those elsewhere. 



These hairs are seen under a ^ inch objective to be unusually 

 large, distinctly flattened at the end, which is broad and sijuare 

 the ti|)s being flattened and transi)arent. In a few of the hairs 

 the expanded tip appears to be ragged and broken, or toothed, 

 and in one case deeply forked. 



I have not yet seen the fully fed larva, and we need a detailetl 

 description of it, as compared with the final stage of Sehi'^i/ra and 

 Ja/iassa. A figure, by Miss Morton, of the final stage is to be 

 found in {'"orest Insects 1*1. Ill, ligs. 6, 6a. 



'i'he descriptions of the following stages are drawn up from 

 Mr. liridgham's excellent colored figures, those of the two earlier 

 stages having been compared with mv descriptions and found to 

 be accurate in form and coloi'. His examples of stage I (from 

 eggs I sent him) were drawn July 3-7, of stage II, July 12; of 

 stage III, July iS, stage 1\', July 23 ; stage \', and last, July 2S. 



Stas^e III. — Lengtli, 20 mm. The head is somewhat angular, 

 spotted with whitish (///</ the tiil'ercles are /a/xer than before. The 

 body has more of a lilac tint, and the lul)ercles which were yellow 



