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The legs are as before, except that'the tibial rings are more highly; 
colored and there are more or less evident traces of a second red¬ 
dish ring below, as well as of two femoral rings of the same color. :- 
near the tibio-femoral articulation. 
The antennal are relatively shorter than in the first stage owing 
to the greater development of the body, and reach about to the fifth! 
nlvlnminal segment. Their color is darker, all the joints being red-1 
dish dusky, with white articulations. The second joint has also»« 
aler shade at the middle, and the basal joint is nearly white. Ini 
the bore highly colored specimens the antennal are distinctly nnge - 
with pale at the articulations, and at the middle of the second joint 
The tarsi (still two-jointed) and the tip of the beak are almost black 
Third Stage. (Plate XII, Fig. 1.) This stage differs from thif 
preceding chiefly in the greater size, the length being now eleven o 
twelve hundredths of an inch, the width about halt the length, aU 
in the greater development of the posterior angles of the meso- aa| 
metanotum, which now begin to take the form of wing pads a® 
reach backwards so as to enclose the ends of the first, and ofte| 
of the second abdominal segments. The abdomen is now abou 
twice a" e as the protliorax; and the beak has the joint;! 
nnenual the second being the shortest. The legs and antenna ai 
more highly colored than before; there is a black spot beneath th | 
posterior angles of the prothorax. 1 
In the more strongly marked specimens, the head, abdomen, legs, aD !i 
antenm^are more or less strongly suffused with crimson the tea 
ha vino: a median longitudinal red stripe, with two short oblique ml 
on each sTde The thorax is dusky, marbled with paler, with 
median white line, and pale spaces surr ounding the lour black spo 
and is sometimes variegated with crimson. The under side oi t 
head and the tip of the abdomen beneath are also marked wi 
fourth Stage , or Pupa. (Plate XII, Fig. 2.) The “pupa” is d 
cidedly broader than the other stages, the average length e. 
hundredths of an inch, and the width seven hundredtl 
The head and the prothorax have the adult form, and the scuteUr 
is well marked as a semi-circular, bimaculate, median pait of t 
second thoracic segment; this segment (the mesonotum), in tact, n 
nearly covers the third, or metanotum. . 
The wing pads now extend to the fourth abdominal segmen , a 
are about equal in their greatest length to the first two segme 
of the thorax taken together. They are irregularly marbled a 
lined with dusky, while the prothorax, besides the two black spe 
shows four longitudinal dusky or crimson lines parallel with its maigi 
In some the abdominal sutures are crimson, and a cumson 
crosses each segment In fact the pup® show an extiaoidm, 
variability of color, evidently independent of age, and piobabiy 
lated to sex 
iteci to sex. _ . . , , 
The tarsi are still two-jointed, the second joint long and sienc 
With the basal half pale, giving the tarsi a handed appea ai 
The antennae are less distinctly ringed than befoie, and tl 
diminish in thickness from the first to the last and in length h 
the second. In some specimens, a pale v-shaped maik 01 
