1893] 163 [Dyar. 
First larval stage. — The newly hatched larva is entirely shining yellow, 
3 mm. long. Head cordate, as wide as high, pale brown, slightly shining; 
eyes black, mouth brown ; width 0.6 ram. Body slender, long, smooth 
with minute black setae arising from inconspicuous black dots. Anal 
feet extended nearly backward, slender, partly aborted. Color, leaf- 
green, shining, a yellow shade stigmatally. All the feet black, con- 
trasting. 
Second stage. — Head only very slightly depressed on top ; rounded, 
green, not shining; jaws reddish; a black stripe extends from the ocelli 
up the side of each lobe, running posteriorly, not attaining the vertex 
and diminishing in width upward; width I.l mm. Body smooth with 
minute dark setae; green; a faint stigmatal yellow line; all the feet 
except the anal ones are black. 
Tliird stage. — Head flattened before, clypeus small, depressed ; median 
suture deep, but the head not bilobed. Light green, not shining; a 
mottled brown band from jaw on each side, not attaining the vertex, but 
narrowing upwai'd, black at its extremities; ocelli black, jaws green, 
tipped Avith brown; width 1.8 mm. Body smooth, the setae minute, 
green with four narrow yellow bands on each side, the lower substig- 
matal and bordered above narrowly with red-brown. Thoracic feet 
blackish; abdominal ones black-tipped. The anal feet are not elevated 
and are used in walking, but they are small and joint 13 is tapering. 
Fourth stage. — Head shaped as before, always large for the body, held 
out nearly flat, recalling the position of the head in Gluphisia. The 
line on the side is red-brown, bordered on both sides with yellow, and 
is continuous with the stlgraatal line of the body in the normal position. 
It does not attain the vertex of the head, terminating in a black point at 
each end. Jaws yellow with two small reddish lines. Later the sides 
of the clypeus are defined by a pale yellow line and there are two little 
yellow streaks at the vertex of each lobe continuing the lines on the 
body. Width 2.6 ram. Body green, including the feet which are only 
faintly tinged with blackish, the thoracic ones most strongly so. Slen- 
der, tapering posteriorly, the last segment small, though the feet are used 
in walking and are not elevated in the normal position of rest. No 
cervical shield nor anal plate distinguishable. There is a broad, double, 
dorsal, and single, waved, subdorsal, whitish line; a lateral row of 
yellowish dots, obsoletely connected into a waved line, and a distinct, 
straight, narrow, stigmatal, yellow line, bordered above with red-brown. 
Spiracle on joint 2 large, black-ringed, the others reddish. The larva 
eats away the substance of the leaf from a midrib or vein which it 
leaves and rests upon with the head generally turned towards the base 
of the leaf. 
Fifth stage. — Head full, rounded, a little higher than wide, flattened 
in front, the sutures not deep; smooth, shining green, under the lens 
minutely granular; jaws yellow, with a broad central reddish band, and 
tipped with l)lack; antennae white, the last joint reddish; a red-brown 
at joint 3 posteriorly ; the second widens rapidly, reaching below the 
