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4^st Stage July 8-
Bristly Black tipped with a few light and more slender
hairs interspersed. A well defined sub-stigmatic
orange yellow band slightly suffused post. and blot
sated anteriorly. 2 well defined elongate (large) orange
yellow spots on d or nearly s.d. / D. Tubercles
11 prominent. Body dull black the tubercles per
interna Lateral in brown by set. tub. on each 2e.g.
Head sublittled 10.5 - mm-
5^st Stage- July (Sat. A.M.)
All the Tubercle narrowly ringed with whitish and the blackish
portions dotted and mottled sparsely with whitish. The lateral s.stig
line near heavy-orange. Under portions mottled w. yellowish
Dorsal pattern 10 clearly defined-orange. Head nearly black
w.few mottlings and two diverging ant. left lines
2.14 mm.
6^st Stage. July 13-14.
Sep
Interruption of finer light hairs on 5-9 divides the sub.dorsal
and s.d. (Vermis) legs in 3^st the lower quite abruptly
from the legs ant. 2 post to them: in one the gradation
is more gradual. The legs ant. to these (5-9) have also
an interruption of similar hairs which are smoky
almost black. These hairs have a viscous look and not-
straight (rigid) but tend to curl and are thickly
set with sharp-pointed projections almost-injct after ves