434 AKCTIAD^. 



dorsal stripe on 11, 12; hair black and white mixed, spinulose, 

 longer at extremities. 



Stage 4. Head red-brown, blackish about sutures; the dorsum 

 of somites 5-9 grey-white with dusky dorsal line ; somites 3 and 11 

 dull orange except the latter on dorsum ; the rest blackish purple, 

 with narrow white subventral line ; feet pale ; wart ii. on somites 

 4 and 11 with short black tuft, double on 5 ; the other hair reddish 

 mixed with black, with some long white ones at extremities ; warts 

 pale ; older with the colour more faded, the white tinged with 

 dull red, the purple parts lighter, somite 4 remaining dark ; the 

 warts surrounded with white rings; feet reddish. 



Stage 5. Head scarcely bilobed ; shiny black, the mouth and 

 antennae whitish; body dull grey; the subdorsal area of somites 

 5-9 and 11 lighter and salmon-tinted ; warts pale salmon-colour ; 

 hair reddish, the long hair at extremities white ; somite 1 retracted 

 with slight warts ; two subdorsal warts on somites 2, 3 ; i.b and 

 iii. rudimentary ; hair spinulose ; spiracles black-ringed ; later the 

 larva is uniform greyish with dusky dorsal line, the hair pinkish 

 brown. 



Stage 6. Head with base of antennae reddish ; body fleshy brown 

 with black dorsal stripe ; warts and hair pinkish brown with longer 

 hair at extremities. 



Cocoon elliptical, rather thin, formed of hair and silk; pujja 

 mahogany-brown . 



Food-plant, Guettarda elliptica. 



*2005. Calidota divina. 



Carales divina, Schaus, Ent. Am, v. p. 191(1889); Druce, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Het. ii. p. 379, pi. 75. f . 14 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 207. 



Head and thorax grey, irrorated with brown ; palpi, lower part 

 of frons, and antennae dark brown ; Ist joint of palpi, sides of 

 frons, basal joint of antennae, extremity of metathorax, and greater 

 part of pectus and coxae crimson ; tegulae with black spots ; patagia 

 with black patches at base and some black and crimson scales ; 

 meso- and metathorax with black points ; legs dark, brown-streaked, 

 the tarsi ringed with grey ; abdomen crimson, with dorsal and 

 lateral series of black spots, the ventral surface whitish. Fore 

 wing grey, irrorated with brown ; a crimson point at base ; an 

 oblique subbasal black-brown patch from costa to vein 1 ; an ante- 

 medial patch extending to median nervure; a medial triangular 

 spot extending into cell with a short crimson streak just beyond it 

 on costa, and an elongate black spot below it in lower end of cell ; 

 an irregular mark defined by a brown line on inner area before 

 middle, its upper extremity produced and ending in a rounded 

 spot, then angled outwards on vein 1 ; a brown-edged dumbbell- 

 shaped discoidal spot ; a black-brown postmedial band with irregu- 

 larly dentate inner edge, diffused outwards and with black streaks 

 on the veins ; a crenulate subterminal line with short dark stride on 



