March, 1896.] 
Dyar, A New Gloveria. 
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white, rather thick, with a series of little short dorsal tufts. Venter 
dark gray with a series of black medio-ventral spots. Body quite 
densely clothed with secondary hairs, the warts almost obsolete, some of 
the largest ones persisting, black. Leg plates dark. 
Last stage .—Head black, the lower segment of clypeus, side pieces 
and median suture whitish; mouth pale; all covered with soft white 
secondary hairs; rounded, rather large, not retracted; width 5.5 to 
6.4 mm. Body curiously transversely streaked with whitish and red- 
brown, silky hairy, flattened ; no warts. There is a rather broad shaded 
blackish band below the spiracles, relieved by a series of whitish inter- 
segmental patches below, otherwise grading into the dark venter, mot¬ 
tled with black and light red on each side of the median black patches. 
Above the substigmatal line the marks are transeverse, except a narrow 
brown-black broken lateral line which cuts them. The ground color is 
whitish, shading into bright brown subdorsally, with about six obscured 
transverse streaks of brown black, most distinct intersegmentally. They 
become clouded in a dark brown shade centrally on the segment and 
are relieved by an orange subdorsal transverse dash on the posterior 
third on joints 4 to 12, a rather conspicuous making, defined before by 
darker brown ; an anterior dark brown ad-dorsal patch. These trans¬ 
verse markings are produced by a growth of fine short dark brown sec¬ 
ondary hairs in four transverse lines over the dorsum, a broken blackish 
dorsal and ad-dorsal shading on the ground of the original broad 
orange-red subdorsal band. At the lower edge of the orange dash a 
dark red shade obscurely parallels the longitudinal superstigmatal line. 
Cervical shield velvety black with two white streaks below it. Anal 
plates black, joint 12 heavily clouded with blackish. Thoracic feet 
reddish, abdominal dark, with a bright whitish streak down the outer 
side. Hair soft, fine, white, tufted dorsally and subventrally centrally 
on the segments. Warts absent, all the hairs secondary; no percepti¬ 
ble enlargement below the cervical shield ; joint 12 not enlarged. 
The short brown hairs are stiff thick-walled tubes, smooth with 
pointed conical ends; they are widest at terminal third and taper a lit¬ 
tle toward the base, minutely granular-roughened just before the tip. 
The long white hairs are more slender, colorless, thin walled and 
smooth, gently tapering toward the tip. There is a slight roughening 
toward the tip of short lamellar points. Length of the short hairs .4 to 
.6 mm., of the long ones 3 to 6 mm. The short hairs are evidently of 
a defensive nature as they become detached when the larva is handled 
and entering the skin produce some irritation and finally small blisters 
which last for several days. 
