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stage J3. Clypeus luteous ; a vinous spot on vertex; waits 

 round, produced, colourless except the subdorsal warts of somites 2, 

 3 which are vinous, and ii. of 11-12 Avhich are orange ; i. small, 

 ii,, iii. large, v. small, vi. large, produced ; the vinous colour 

 covering dorsum on 2-9. 



Stage 4. Head rounded, slightly bilobed ; jaws black at tip ; 

 body short, thick, pale testaceous tinged with vinous, the obliquo 

 streaks on somites 10-12 dark ; warts rounded, elevated ; hair 

 dense, stiff, flesh-coloured with black tips, barbuled ; somite 4 with 

 a diffused dorsal black patch, the hair from tubercle i. and part of 

 ii. short, black ; a slight similar shade on somite 9. 



Stage 5. Antennae rather long ; the markings replaced by dense 

 hair, but the diffused dorsal black patches present; hair bright 

 brown with black tips, with a few long pale hairs overhanging the 

 head ; a slight black-crested tuft on upperside of tubercle i. on 

 somite 4. 



Stage 6. Head whitish, with large, thick, irrorated, U-shaped 

 black mark bordering clypeus, with a short spur at sides below ; 

 antennae pale ; body rounded, flattened ventrally, and depressed at 

 ends, clothed with dense brush-like pale yellowish hair, the ends 

 slightly brown-tufted ; somites 2, 3 with long slender white pencils 

 from subdorsal warts ; warts i.-vi. large and rather contiguous. 



Stage 7 . Head pale yellow, with a diffused reddish shade on faco 

 of each lobe, the paraclypeal pieces and some dots on clypeus grey ; 

 later the head becoming dark orange-red. Some of the larvae 

 alike till this stage came out with variously coloured hair, yellow, 

 mouse-grey, chocolate-brown, and orange-red, the colour residing in 

 the spinulose part of the hair, in all the thoracic pencils being 

 white ; later the colours became dull, yellow and chocolate-brown 

 forms remaining till mature. 



Cocoon formed of hair felted on a delicate silk web ; pupa dark 

 brown. Food-plant, Eugenia buxifolia, E. procera, and Fsidium 

 pyrifera. 



Sect. III. Hind wing with vein 8 from middle of cell in cT , from angle in $ , 

 the costa not lobed. 



1230. Eupseudosoma agramma, n. sp. 



Evpscudosoma involutuvi, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 391 (part.). 



Pure white; palpi above 

 and antennae tinged with 

 fuscous ; vertex of head 

 yellow ; fore legs fuscous 

 above ; abdomen crimson 

 above with dorsal series 

 of white points, the 1st 

 and two terminal seg- 

 Fig. 21. ments and the ventral 



Eupseudosoma agramma , ^ . \. surface white; wings 



pure white. 



