Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . supraaual plate and tinged sliglitly with pink. A distinct lateral pink line begins on side of the head and extends to end of the body along the edge of supraaual plate. The line is somewhat finely brown, and is edged below with white. The whole body and legs pea-green, slightly darker below than alctng the back. Thoracic feet, greenish amber, sjiotted externally with black. Length, mm. The following descrii)tion of the larval stages, pujia, etc., are copied from Mr. Dyars paper in Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, November
Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . supraaual plate and tinged sliglitly with pink. A distinct lateral pink line begins on side of the head and extends to end of the body along the edge of supraaual plate. The line is somewhat finely brown, and is edged below with white. The whole body and legs pea-green, slightly darker below than alctng the back. Thoracic feet, greenish amber, sjiotted externally with black. Length, mm. The following descrii)tion of the larval stages, pujia, etc., are copied from Mr. Dyars paper in Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, November, 1894: ??First larral stage.—The newly hatched larva is entirely .sinning yellow, d mm. long. Head cordate, as wide as high, pale brown, slightly shining; eyes black, mouth brown; width, mm. 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 ijtigmatally. All the feet black, Fig. Co.—Head of ofJLophodoJita angulosa. MEMOmS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 149 ??Second Hiuye.—Ilead only very .sliiihtly (Icprcssetl oa top; rounded, green, not shuuug; jawsreddish; a black stripe extends from the ocelli up the side of each lobe, running posteriorly, notattaining the vertex and diminishing in width njiward; width, mm. Body smooth, withminute dark setsx; green; a faint stignnital yellow line; all the feet except the anal ones are black. ^^ Third stage.—Rend flattened before, clypeus small, depressed; median suture deep, but thehead not bilobcd. Light green, not shining; a mottled brown band from jaw on each side, notattaining the vertex, but narrowing upward, black at its extremities; ocelli black, jaws green,tipped with brown ; width, mm. Body smooth, the sette minute, green, with four narrow yellowbands on each side the lower sabstigmatal and bordered above narrowly with feet
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