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at joints 3-4, and 12, cylindrical, normal, the feet small, equal, thoracic ones black. 

 Whitish; a red-brown lateral patch on joints 5 and 11, with faint traces about tubercle 

 iv on joints 6 to 8 of red-brown. Cervical shield distinct, transverse, slightly 

 excavate behind, with the leg shields and tubercles brown-black. Tubercles distinct, 

 rounded, moderate, normal. Anal shield small, brown-black. 



Stage II. — Head rounded, bilobed, about as high as wide, greenish testaceous; 

 width, 0.5 mm . Body shaped as before, but the shields and plates scarcely cornified, 

 obscure, concolorous; tubercles minute, setae small. Green, the dark brown patches 

 on joints 5 and 11 large, covering the spiracle and a small rounded subdorsal one on 

 joint 3. Numerous longitudinal white lines consisting of dorsal, subdorsal (upper 

 and lower), lateral, substigmatal (upper and lower); feet all pale. 



Stage III. — Head rounded, wider than high, slightly bilobed, the lobes full in 

 front, the clypeus reaching two-thirds to the vertex; greenish testaceous, a brown 

 patch before on each lobe; width, 0.8 mm . Body shaped and colored as before, the 

 region between the lower subdorsal and substigmatal lines reddish and containing 

 traces of a supra-stigmatal white line; subventer slightly reddish. 



Stage IV. — Head as before, shining brownish testaceous, clypeus rather high, two- 

 thirds, ocelli large, black; width, 1.3 mm . Body cylindrical, enlarged at joints 3-5 and 

 tapering to the head, enlarged also dorsally at joint 12. Feet moderate, equal. 

 Shields and tubercles obsolescent, setae minute except at the extremities. Green; 

 dorsal line narrow, white, obscure; lower subdorsal rather broad, distinct, white, 

 shaded with orange, angled on the hump on joint 12; the two substigmatal lines par- 

 allel, waved, subconfluent by mottlings, forming a broad, sharply edged band cen- 

 tered with brown and shaded with orange in spots. Other lines broken, dotted, con- 

 fused with strigae. Dark brown subdorsal patch on joint 3 and lateral ones on joints 

 5 and 11 as before. Body more or less mottled w T ith brown between the strigae. 

 Concolorous cervical shield cut by three white lines; thoracic feet brown; abdominal 

 ones green, brown shielded. 



Stage V. — Head as before, shining brown, reticulate with darker on the sides, the 

 same dark color shading the clypeus, labrum, and edges of the pale paraclypeal pieces; 

 width, 2 to 2.2 mm . Body as before, the enlargements less marked. Green, densely 

 mottled reticulate with brown and whitish dots, the lines obsolescent, lost in the 

 mottlings, except the lower subdorsal, which persists as a series of white dashes on 

 the centers of joints 3 to 12, each dash forming the lower edge of a triangular brown- 

 black patch, those of joints 3 and 12 the largest, the central ones smaller and some- 

 times not developed. A lateral patch on joints 5 and 11. Upper subventral line 

 indicated, narrow, waved, reddish. Dorsal line indicated, distinct on joints 2 and 

 3. Cervical shield olivaceous brown with three pale lines; anal plate concolorous; 

 feet greenish; slight irregular black dottings on joint 13 dorsally. 



Stage VI — Head broad, rounded, bilobed, clypeus large, reaching over two-thirds 

 to the vertex; brown, marked as before, the reticulations not prominent; not retracted 

 in joint 2; width, 3 mm . Body cylindrical, normal, gently enlarged at joints 3 to 5 

 and 12, tapering only at joints 2 and 13; feet moderate, normal. Densely and finely 

 mottled with brown and whitish, the marks as before but somewhat more defined. 

 Subdorsal velvety black triangular patches, usually subequal on joints 3 to 12, edged 

 below by a yellow-white line, becoming a dot on joint 4, or the central ones smaller 

 or absent, but those on joints 3, 11, and 12 persistent. Other lines obsolete or rep- 

 resented by traces except the dorsal on joints 2 and 3, which is narrow, pale. Cer- 

 vical shield olivaceous with dorsal line only or traces of the pale subdorsal also; anal 

 plate small, olivaceous. Black dottings of joint 13 absent in faintly marked exam- 

 ples. Spiracles black; feet greenish. Tubercle iv on joint 5 above the middle of 

 the spiracle, on joints 6 to 8 above the lower angle, on 9 and 10 below the middle, 

 on 11 halfway to tubercle v, on 12 at the lower angle of the spiracle. — [H. G. Dyar.] 



