1978] Aiello & Silberglied — Dynastor darius 339 
Figure 9. Head capsules of larva no. 3. Lateral(A, C, E) and frontal(B, D, F) views 
of instars one (A, B), two (C, D), and five (E, F). Scale = 2 mm. 
were covered with short appressed setae. With growth the caudae 
became shorter in proportion to the body, and widened basally, 
approaching a conical shape in large larvae. Meanwhile, the black 
portion decreased until only the tips of the caudae were dark. The 
orange changed to red-brown and at last to dark brown, and the red 
area disappeared from the tip of the abdomen. 
Pupation 
Pupation and the processes leading to it took four days. During the 
first day, the larvae stopped eating, turned dark brown, emptied their 
guts, and shortened their bodies. The second day was spent crawling 
upon a support and spinning a silk stalk. During the third day, larvae 
grasped the stalk with their anal prolegs and hung upside down, and 
