. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history. Mature larva; average length about 22 mm. Of the long, cylindrical "looper" type. Ground color, olive. The body bears numerous longitudinal dark bands. There is a double median-dorsal band of dark brown, bordered laterally with a light cream or olive area containing a sugges- tion of two light brown discontinuous bands. Lateral to this is a darker area containing ap- proximately three dark brown bands, the mid- dle one of which is fairly constant. Inferior to this area is a broken an
. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history. Mature larva; average length about 22 mm. Of the long, cylindrical "looper" type. Ground color, olive. The body bears numerous longitudinal dark bands. There is a double median-dorsal band of dark brown, bordered laterally with a light cream or olive area containing a sugges- tion of two light brown discontinuous bands. Lateral to this is a darker area containing ap- proximately three dark brown bands, the mid- dle one of which is fairly constant. Inferior to this area is a broken and somewhat lobulated raised band, placed stigmatally, and lighter in color than any other area. Head, cream-colored, with brown spots and streaks. Ocelli, brown. ]\Iouthparts con- colorous with head. A few short bristles occur on the face, and body. Abdomen, a shade lighter than the dorsum, and banded with more or less broken longitudinal lines, of a light brown. True legs of the same shade as abdomen, except for the dark brown tips. Pro- legs and anal prolegs concolorous with ab- domen. See Plate 26. ff V. V PLATE 26 Pupa: mm. long x mm. wide through thorax. Body surface smooth, and free of all appendages. Predominant color, green, the abdominal segments laved with straw, and the segmental creases green. Head, tinged with brown. Eye cases prominent, bear- ing three small black punctae. Wing cases translucent showing the segmental lines underneath. Abdomen gradually tapering to a rounded tip. Stigmata minute, brown. Cremasteric hooks, 2 in number, short and brown. The pupa is illustrated on Plate 27. Mature larva of Graeperia altera. enlarged x 214. Drawing by J. A. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Southern California Academy of Sciences. Los Angeles, Calif. : The Academy
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