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Caterpillar. — Slug-sbaped, with two processes on the Lead, and two on the anal 

 segment. 



Ghrysalis. — Somewhat boat-shaped; dorsum arched; head with two short pro- 

 jecting points. 



Egg. — " Large ; few ; hardly as high as wide ; ribs low, serrate, rather numerous, 

 not produced at apex " (Doherty). 



Group III. Epthaliina. 



Imago. — Robust. Forewings broad, triangular; apex either obtusely pointed or 

 rounded, or somewhat falcate ; exterior margin either slightly, but obtusely, 

 scalloped, or nearly even. Hindwings short, broad, triangular or obovate, or some- 

 times subquadrate. 



Caterpillar. — Head slightly cleft and spiny or minutely hairy. Body armed 

 with a subdorsal and lateral row of erect branched-spines, or with very long lateral 

 horizontally-projecting branched-spines. 



Chrysalis. — Elongate and boat-shaped, with arched dorsum and bifid head ; or, 

 short and stout, with triangulate medio- dorsal prominence, and bifid head. 



Egg.-? 



Group IV. LiMENITINA. 



Imago. — Moderately robust, generally. Forewings either short and more or less 

 triangular, or elongate and narrow ; apex obtuse or rounded ; exterior margin in 

 some more or less slightly scalloped. Hindwings short, generally broad and 

 triangularly-ovate, in some obovate ; exterior margin more or less slightly scalloped, 

 and in some the anal angle is prolonged, or lobate, the apex slightly excised, and 

 with a short acute point or narrow tail at end of upper median veinlet. 



Caterpillar. — Head cleft, or serrate, on vertex. Body either unequally humped 

 dorsally, or more or less cylindrical; armed with two subdorsal series of mostly 

 short irregular-shaped fleshy branched-spines. 



Chrysalis. — Somewhat elongate, or short ; with projecting wing-cases, broad 

 rounded elevated anterio-dorsal prominence, arched thorax, and projected bifid (or 

 rarely single) head piece. 



Egg. — " Very large ; few ; soft ; not so high as wide, strongly reticulate with 

 elevated translucent lines crossing the sui-face asymmetrically, enclosing pentagonal 

 and hexagonal spaces, and bearing long, acute, often bifid spines at their in- 

 tersection " (Doherty). 



Group V. Nyjiphalina. 



Imago. — Forewings elon gately -triangular ; apex obtusely angled or rounded, in 

 some produced to a more or less distinct point ; exterior margin either more or less 



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