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margin of intersegmental membrane. There are five recurved hairs 

 on each side of the 8fch abdominal, six on each side of the 9fch, and 

 one on each side of the 10th. The dorso-anal spines are very minute ; 

 the spiracles large. The eye goes with the face-parts and antennae, on 

 dehiscence, and the legs also in the ? but not in the $ (Chapman). 

 The female pupa is of a clear brown colour dorsally, inclining to 

 blackish Avhere the segments overlap at the incisions, the abdominal 

 segments 7-10 paler, almost yellowish ; ventrally the whole area of the 

 pale yellowish tint, the 7-10 abdominal segments almost glossy in 

 appearance. The skin of the thoracic segments and 1st abdominal 

 smooth and shiny, also the front part of the 2nd abdominal ; the skin 

 on the other segments finely pitted, and with transverse foldings 

 posteriorly. Dorsally. — -The prothorax is frontal, ill-developed, but 

 with several tiny pointed hairs and two longer setae ; the mesothorax 

 well-developed, with a distinct median mesothoracic ridge, which is 

 less marked on the metathorax, the latter segment being also well- 

 developed. There are two strong setae on either side of the meso- 

 thorax, one near median line, the other towards the base of the wing 

 and slightly anterior to middle of segment ; two similar setae are on 

 either side of metathorax. The 1st and 2nd abdominal segments are 

 slightly narrowed, the 4th and 5th are the widest, the cremastral area 

 is rounded. The abdominal segments have, on the posterior margin 

 and at some distance on either side of the medio-dorsal line, a tiny 

 chitinous button with a long pale brown seta (ii), in front of which, 

 and almost in line with it, is the less-developed i ; a similar button, 

 but with a shorter seta (hi), is placed at the outer margin of the 

 dorsum at the middle of the segment ; ii and iii are almost in a line 

 transversely on the 8th abdominal, on the 9th are 14 setae with 

 recurved points forming a circle around the segment, on the 10th are 

 two similar setae, and between them two small chitinous spikes pointed 

 backwards and slightly upwards. The recurved setae appear to have 

 but little holding power. The dark intersegmental areas commence at 

 that between abdominal segments 1-2. Each segment appears to be 

 divisible into four areas : (1) Finely shagreened. (2) With minute 

 dark spines. (3) Shagreened more finely than 1. (4) Like 3, but more 

 delicate in texture, and forming the intersegmental membrane. The 

 spinous points are only present on abdominal segments 3-8, and 

 evanescent on the latter. Ventrally. — The ventral area is pale in 

 colour, much flattened throughout its length, and so delicate in struc- 

 ture that the separate parts are almost indistinguishable. Theclypeus 

 and headpiece continuous, the latter forming a rounded frontal piece 

 directly below the prothorax, the dorsal headpiece occupying a small 

 triangular area between them ; the antennae form an outside bow 

 extending to not quite the end of the 2nd pair of legs. The glazed eye 

 and the eye-area are not at all readily distinguishable in the living- 

 pupa (but in the dehisced pupa, a transparent line represents the 

 former, and a punctuated area outside it, the latter) ; the labrum 

 forms a distinct rounded upper lip ; the labium appears to form a 

 lower lip, and bears two rounded projections, the labial palpi, whilst the 

 maxilla? (as usually recognised in most pupae) are reduced to a 

 triangular lappet on either side of the labium, which are connected 

 above (in front of) the labium by a transverse piece ; the maxillary 

 palpi form small buttons at the outer extremity of each of the maxilla? ; 



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