264 SCHULTZE. 



the pronotmn and fourth abdominal segment, and two large, black spots 

 on the metanotum and on each of the second and tliird segments. 



I found this species feeding on Premna integrifolia Linn, on a dry and sandy 

 beach, near Bongabon on the east coast of Mindoro, P. I., in the month of 

 January, 1908, in all stages and quite numerous. 



AspiDOMOEPHA MILIAJBIS Fabr. (PI. VI, fig. 6). 



Aspidomorpha miliaris Fabr., Syst. Ent., (1775), 91. 



Egg: The egg-case of A. miliaris Fabr. (PI. Ill, fig. 1) is a very 

 remarkable and complete structure, similar to that of A. puncticosta 

 Bohem., and the latter is so well described by Muir ^ that it is not 

 necessary for me to repeat his statements concerning the process and 

 manner by which the ootheca is built up. However, I foimd that the 

 egg-clusters of A. miliaris Fabr. differ greatly in size and in the number 

 of eggs which they contain. The number of eggs in one ootheca varies 

 from 32 to SO.* All ootheca which I observed have eight longitudinal 

 rows of cells. The four middle rows contain the eggs; the others, two 

 rows on each side, being air chambers. The complicated structure of 

 the egg-case of A. miliaris Fabr. alone, indicates that this species is much 

 more advanced in its development than its near relatives. 



Larva: Larvae of A. miliaris Fabr. always live in groups or com- 

 munities and they pupate together. The newly hatched larva of A. 

 miliaris Fabr. is light ochraceous-brown. In this species, also, the subanal 

 spines are extremely long. The larva has eight spines on the pro-, 

 four on the meso-, and four on the metathoracic segments; abdominal 

 segments each with two spines. All the spines are nearly straight, those 

 on the seventh, eighth and ninth segments are longer than the others, 

 and the forked subanal spines on the ninth segment are cui'ved. Num- 

 bers of white spinules occur on all spines. The color of the spines is 

 dark, with lighter-brown toward the base. Head and legs are also 

 dark brown, lighter along the sutures. The general color of the larva 

 (PL III, figs. 2 and 3) is creamy- white, but toward the margins and 

 segmental articulations ochraceous. On the protlioracic segment, indica- 

 tions of a chitinous sclerite ap23ear, inarked with two irregular, dark- 

 brown spots. The mespthoracic segment has two black . antemedial and 

 two brown submarginal spots; metathoracic segments with two large, 

 black antemedial, four smaller, submarginal brown sjDots, and one small, 

 black, nearly round, medial spot on the posterior half of the segment. 

 First to seventh abdominal segments, each with two irregular, oblong, 

 black antemedial, two submarginal, and one small nearly round medial 

 spot, the latter on the posterior half of each segment. The seventh 



' Zoc. cit., p. 2. 



'Observation of 16 egg-clusters. 



