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Psyche 8:288, 1897.

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288 J's YG%Y. [November 1898.
NOTE ON THREE PYRAIJD MOTHS
OF TlIE GENUS PACHYZANCLA.
NRS. E. >I. SWA~SON lately sent me thee
pyxhis which she had bred in Jamaica, with the pupa-shells and her notes on the larvae. Sir G. F. Hampson has been so kind as to identify the species for me, so the breeding notes may a6 \\-ell be published.
(1.) P~zchyza~cZu s~~iz~Zcimt.?u Hm~ipsn. - Larva nearly an inch long, soft cream7 ; head sn~all, shiny, jet 'black, black marks on neck. Thc larva is so transparent that the nmvements of the internal 13x1-ts can be seen. Pupa (as also in the two following species) folded in a led ; pupa-shell fer~-ugino~1s, more shiny than that of the next. Lama
pupated Aug. 7, and gave imago ALI~. I j. A
leaf-ro1lcr. This specics was originally de- scribed in 1895, from St. I7ii~cent.
(2.) PacAyzumlu aeLpotuZ& Zell. - Larva
3 inch long, shiny, watery green; seems
white, Lt hut on back the dark green show tlwough," head and sides xcl~ite. Pupa shell dull ferruginous. Larva pupated July 30, and gave hago Aug. g. Feeds on guinea-
hen weed, and a wild bush with shining dark green leaves.
(3.) Pachyzui~cZa $haeo$twuKs Guen, -
Larva nearly an inch long, dear watery
green, with minute greybrown spots all over, dark mark down middle of back, head b~iff, black ~na~-l<s on neck. Folds led over it. Pupa shell darker and more shiny than that of P. ueg~otuZis. Food-plant wild cockscombb Pupated July 29, imago Aug. 4. These three specks are dl, I believe, now first recorded from Jamaica.
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