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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME BUTTERFLY LARVÆ FROM YOSEMITE.—III
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 May 2012
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Phyciodes mylitta. Edw.
Egg.—Not observed; but laid about 50 together.
Frist Stage.—Head shining black; width .25mm. Body cylindrical; cervical shield and anal plate black; fine black hairs, slightly curving forward, arise from minute black elevated spots.
Second Stage.—Head black and shiny; width .40mm. The body is covered with rows of conical elongated tubercles, each with many bristly hairs, arranged as in the mature larva. Sordid greenish, shaded with black dorsally, the cervical shield, anal plate and tubercles black.
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