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Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . nd narrow; on ea<h side of aud rather remote from the distinct median sutureand uearly parallel to it is a dark thread line, the frontal space inclosed being clear of dots. Theground color of the head is like new parchment; on each side are dark specks, forming a band oneach side between the antenna^ and the prothoracie tubercles. The autenme are bright thoracic .segment tcith two ticin contif/uous yellowish humps from which arise two pale rawsienna-brown tubercles, each endiwj in a piliferous tubercle, rising quite hiyh over the he
Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . nd narrow; on ea<h side of aud rather remote from the distinct median sutureand uearly parallel to it is a dark thread line, the frontal space inclosed being clear of dots. Theground color of the head is like new parchment; on each side are dark specks, forming a band oneach side between the antenna^ and the prothoracie tubercles. The autenme are bright thoracic .segment tcith two ticin contif/uous yellowish humps from which arise two pale rawsienna-brown tubercles, each endiwj in a piliferous tubercle, rising quite hiyh over the head; belotc,not quite near the end, arc two minute tubercles, the remnants of the tines of the horns of theearlier stage. On all the posterior segments of the body the piliferous tubercles are obsolete,and can not be detected with the lens. Two thoracic dorsal brown parallel lines beginning betweenthe prothoracie tubercles, converging to the second thoracic segment aud separating so as to form 23-1 MEMOIES OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF Fig. 81 Pupa of S. guttivitta. body. cT. End of a large oval wliitlsh spot on X\w second and loiiith abdoiniual segments, and ending on tlie binderedge of the fourth, and beginning again on the tifth, then separating agiarn so as to inclose a long-oval dorsal space on abdominal segments 5 to 8; then contract-ing and ending ou the suranal plate between the bases of theanal legs. The oval white spots inclose two parallel faint reddish medianlines. The body is somewliat comi)ressed, tapering to the end;the anal legs are long, outstretched, slender, with a reddish lineon the outside and cherry-red at tips. Sides of the body flesh-colored, with reddish dots and short lines. Thoracic legs pale,with a cherry-red stripe on the outside. The middle abdominallegs pale flesh, with a few short wavy reddish-piuk lines andspecks ou the outside. PI. XXXIII, tigs. 2, la, represent a larva from which I rearedthe moth, a female of normal appearance. Pnpa.—
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