. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. EUrsEUDOSOMA. 29 Stage 3. Clypcus luteous ; a vinous spot on vertex; waits round, produced, colourless except the subdorsal warts of somites 2, 3 which ai'6 vinous, and ii. of 11-12 which are orange ; i. small, ii., iii. large, v. small, vi. large, produced ; the vitious colour covering dorsum on 2-9. Stage 4. Head rounded, slightly bilobed ; jaws black at tip ; body short, thick, pale testaceous tinged with vinous, the oblique streaks on somites lU-12 dark; warts rounded, elevated ; hair dense, stiff, flesh-coloured with black
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. EUrsEUDOSOMA. 29 Stage 3. Clypcus luteous ; a vinous spot on vertex; waits round, produced, colourless except the subdorsal warts of somites 2, 3 which ai'6 vinous, and ii. of 11-12 which are orange ; i. small, ii., iii. large, v. small, vi. large, produced ; the vitious colour covering dorsum on 2-9. Stage 4. Head rounded, slightly bilobed ; jaws black at tip ; body short, thick, pale testaceous tinged with vinous, the oblique streaks on somites lU-12 dark; warts rounded, elevated ; hair dense, stiff, flesh-coloured with black tips, barbuled ; somite 4 with a diffused dorsal black patch, the hair from tubercle i. aud part of ii. short, black ; a slight similar shade on somite 9. Stage 5. Antonnne rather long ; the markings replaced by dcnso hair, but the ditlused dorsal black patches i)re6ent; hair bright brown with black tips, with a few long pale hairs overhanging the head ; a slight black-crested tuft on upper(:^ide of tubercle i. on somite 4. Stage G. Head whitish, with large, thick, irrorated, U-shaped black mark bordering clypeus, w'ith a short spur at sides below ; antennae pale ; body rounded, flattened ventrall}-, and depressed at ends, clothed with dense brush-like pale yellowish hair, the ends slightly brown-tufted; somites 2, 3 with long slender w hite pencils from subdorsal warts ; warts large and rather contiguous. Stage 7. Head pale yellow, with a diffused reddish shade on face of each lobe, the paraclypeal pieces and some dots on clypeus grey ; later the head becoming dark orange-red. Some of the larvae alike till this stage came out with variously coloured hair, yellow, monse-grey, chocolate-brown, aud orange-red, the colour residing in the spinulose part of the hair, in all the thoracic pencils being white; later the colours became dull, yellow and chocolate-brown forms remaining till mature. Cocoon formed of hair felted on a delicate silk web; pupa dark brown. Food-plant, E
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