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gestation lying fi flat on the plant, the edge slightly sir up; on the 
dorsum a longitudinal raised ridge, forming one or more prominences. 
Insect covered all over with numerous minute fine hain, most thickly 
on the thoracic region; round the edge these hairs are longer, an nd are 
from 20 to 30 hairs in each. Amongst the hairs in the tufts are 
several protuding tubular spinnerets, having on the outer end a kind of 
multiglobular ring or crown; from these proceed cylindrical, glassy, 
straight tubes as long as the tufts of hair. Long, fine, glassy, delicate 
the thor ax, seeming] "attache d to the fee Antenne of T joints, 
eA slightly tapering ; nar Jide bearin Bir Feet normal, some- 
h E a 
comm 
ejected int ue sac as it — ovisac es s^ prie containing some- 
times as many as 350 eggs; ovisac convex above, sometimes irregularly 
split, more often nearly d divided e e able caet M longitudinal 
grooves or ribs. 
f second stage dark-red, — slightly convex, — 
covered with thin meal, or short curly co Body hairy with mar- 
ginal tufts and spinnerets, as in adult. ia tubercles odapeo 
but the abdomen — three small lobes on each side, from which 
spring six short s Antenne of nine nearly equal joints, hairy. 
Feet normal, iik. "Several radiating, fine, cottony filaments. J Length 
of insect variable, from 4A in. to in. The dorsum exhibits the longi- 
re mens raised ridge, but less conspicuously than in the adult 
g larva, about 4; in. long, dark-red, elongated, flattish, active ; 
-— with yellow cottony down. Antenne of six joints, hairy ; the 
last joint is much tbe largest, clavate, apparently four-ringed, bearing 
four long hairs. Feet slender: digitules short, fine hairs. Eyes promi- 
nent, tubercular. Mentum .biarticulate. Anal tubercles represented 
by three small processes at each side of the abdominal extremity, each 
process a very long seta. Six ipta tm rows of circular 
multiloeular spinnerets, four on the dorsuin and one on each edge. 
Alternating with these are rows of hairs with qaborsular bases 
Adult male p "ed angih. slightly varying: some specimens s 
i in. ; expanse s, } in.; length of antenne about} in. B 
red, with a ihtaing, pii Pg shaped, black mea on the dorsal su difipe 
of the thorax; legs and antennz black. Wings dark brown with (in 
me ligh a b i i 
80; ts) luish tinge, mar que TOW, wav 
stripes; main nervure red, branching once; there are also longi- 
tudinal, whitish, narrow band ery long and slender, with 
ower pai 
only short bristles. Abdomen slender, segments somewhat liter: on 
———— REGEL 
* Signoret (Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 1875), under the genus yep 
speaks of ** p plis hhyalins = existing a -— the wings of the males of that genus, 
t Misled by similar appearances, Burmeister and Westwood assign 25 join 2d m 
the nes antenna of Leachia ARSE. 
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