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Psyche 6:481-482, 1891.

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June 1893.1
EARLY STAGES OF TWO JAMAICA NYMPHALIDAE. BY T. D. A. COCKERELL.
AGANISTHOS ORION. Egg laid on under
side of leaf of trumpet tree, subglobose (not barrel-shaped or conoid) with 18 strong ribs each of which bears a row of minute but well developed spines which are more or less
bulbous at tips; color of shell bluish white. Young larvae, brought by Mrs. Swainson
March, 1892, presumed to be this species. Length about 6 mm. Head white subtrans-
lucent, shiny. Body yellowish white (the eighth segment above decidedly yellow) with very long hairs, which arise from prominent tubercles; these hairs are all minutely but distinctly bristly (or barbed ?), the bristles (barbs) mostly alternate but toward tip of hair alternate; about eight or nine hairs arise from each tubercle, the central one larger, more bristly and black.. The thoracic legs have two claws.
Older larva from Mrs. Swainson, Bath,
Nov. 3. About 49 mm. long, 8 mm. broad,
cylindrical. Head heart-shaped, broadly
notched above pale brownish with a thick black cross in middle of face cutting the ground color into four portions ; cheeks black with numerous short rather pale spines, and a thick black projection, 2 mm. long, blunt and shiny on each side of the crown, each with 5 spinules. Body beneath and abdomi- nal legs red-brown ; above dark red brown, the thoracic legs, thoracic and anal plates black; numerous bright apple green trans- verse bands above, four to each of the middle segments variously broken and coalesced on the others; they alternate with equally broad bands of the ground color so that it might equally well be described as green above transversely banded with brown. There is a narrow mid-dorsal green band, and on the middle segments two green spots in front of each spiracle ; also a minute green point and a black patch in the subdorsal region. The spines branch at their summits and are
not centrally produced beyond, the radiate branches being longer than the spines. The spines are pale yellow but the branches of the dorsal spine are black. The following table, in which the arabic numerals indicate the number of branches of each spine, will show their general disposition : -
Body Segments I I1 I11 IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XI1 Dorsal 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 6
Subdorsal 2 5 4 2
2 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 4
Lateral 1 1 I 2 4-5
I I 2 I2 I 2 I2 I2 I2 I112
GYNAECIA DIRCE. Larva about 30 mm. upper external margin a long slender long. Head shiny black, with five or six spine, broader and truncate at tip, whitish short white spines on each side, and at each with brown end and beset with scattered



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short spinules.
Body including legs velvety
black, but there is a pale yellow patch on each side of each segment except the 2d, 4th and last; these patches are situated near the anterior border of the segments and are largest on 7th-10th. The first body seg- segment bears dorsally two white pointed spines of moderate length; the other seg- ments bear spines stellate at their summits, though the spine itself is continued beyond the branching so as to look like an upright ray, being but little larger than the divergent spines; the thicker basal part of the spine is again
a little longer than the produced
terminal portion. Their disposition is
shown in the following table, in which the figures indicate the number of divergent lateral radii : -
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Body Segments I I1 111 IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XI1 Dorsal 5 5-6 4 4 4 4 4 4-5 5 5-6 6-7
Subdorsal 65-34 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
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Lateral 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
A younger larva about 21 mm. long is like head are altogether blackish and all the body the adult, except that the long spines on the spines are yellow.
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