Descriptions of larvae, 1883-1890
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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