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Lepidopterous larva.” He remarks that there are “ two strong 
mandibles, with four brown teeth,” and adds: “two pairs of 
palpi are also visible—two- and three-jointed, apparently those 
usual in Lepidopterous larvæ, but I have not defined their re- 
lations. There is also a central point (spinneret?)” 
I add rough sketches of the mouth parts, so far as I could 
draw them with the camera from specimens mounted in bal- 
sam by Dr. Chapman. The labrum (Fig. 3, lbr.) is less divi- 
ded than usual in Lepidopterous larvee, but is not, in this re- 
spect, much unlike that of Tineids e.g. Gracilaria (see Dim- 
mock’s Fig. 2, p. 100, Psyche, iii). The four-jointed antenne 
(Fig. 3A ant.), ending in two unequal seta, are of very unusual 
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size and length, and soare the maxillary palpi (Fig. 3B mz. p.) 
which are much larger than in any caterpillar known to me, 
and greatly in disproportion to the maxillary lobes; the 
maxillary itself differs notably from that of other caterpillars ; 
what appears to be the lacinia is palpiform and two-jointed. 
The labium and its palpi are much as in Gracilaria, but ap- 
pear to be three-jointed, with a terminal bristle (it is possible - 
that there are but two joints). Unlike the larva of Micro- 
