LIFE HISTORIES OF SOME NORTH AMERICAN MOTHS. By Harrison G. Dyar, Pii. D.,Custodian, Section of Lepidoplera. The following early stages of some North American Lepidopterahave l)een recently observed. With a few exceptions the full life histor}^ of each is given.CAUTETHIA GROTEI Henry Edwards. ?'(/g.?Slightlj^ elliptical, well rounded, not flattened, resting onthe leaf only narrowly; shining bright green, minutely shagreened,})ut also with obscure, linear, rather small reticulations. Size 1.2 by1.1 by 0.9 mm. Laid singly on the back of leaf./Stage I.?Head rounded, clypeus reaching to the middle of thefront; pale ochraceous greenish, mouth darker; not shining; width0.5 mm. Body cylindrical, normal, joint 12 squarish with a long(1.5 mm.) erect horn, bearing setse i on the vertex and finely setose.Segments finely, weakly 8-annulate, shining, punctate with pale dots.Translucent yellowish, green from the food. Horn brown-black,stained with red around the base. Tubercle i is on the third annulet,ii on the sixth, iii on the fourth, iv a little posteriorly, on thefourth, substigmatically, v very anterior on the first annulet andhigher than tubercle iv; two set^ on the leg shield. Setffi fine, stiff,straight, not swollen, i to iii dark brown, iv and v pale. Shields andplates concolorous, uncornified.Stage II.?Head round, soft green, ocelli black; width 0.8 mm.Body same soft green, covered with fine, secondar3% pale granules;o])scurely 8-annulate. A faint, pale, subdorsal line. Horn long-,brown-black, setose, stained with red around the base, this color run-ning a little up the dorsal line. Bod}^ pilose; feet pale, thoracic feetreddish at tips.Stage III.?Head squarish, rounded, clypeus broad, not reachingthe middle of the front; soft green with secondary white granules;Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. XXIII?No. 1209. 255 256 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxm.width 1.2iHiii. Body cylindrictil, seginents S-aiumlate, uniform; analfeet large, the foot plates pointed behind. Horn long, liiteous, red-dish at base and tip, pilose and with large apical set? (tubercles i).Body densel}" pale granular, without lines, light green. Spiraclesconcolorous.Stage IV.?Head as before; width 1.7 mm. Horn green, reddishat ti ) and with a brown streak alcove at base, with sparse, short, 1)lackhaiis. Apical seta? still distinguishable. Body light green, palegrpnular, minutel}" pilose. Spiracle of joint 5 black, the rest palebrown. Feet green; no lines, no shields. Horn -i imn. long. Seg-ments uniform, all of equal thickness; subventral fold rather distinct;8 annulate.Stage V.?Described by me some years ago in another place. ^Food i>lant.-?The larvs - were occasionally met with on the Cliio-cocca racemoaa at Palm I tch, Florida.AMPHONYX ANTiEUS Drury.A newly hatched larva of this fine Sphinx occurred to me at PalmBeach, Florida, in February, on the custard apple {Anoiia laurifolia).It was bred in Washington, D. C, the food plant being supplied tome by Mr. F. Kinzel. The moth emerged in July.Fgg.?Elliptical, slightly flattened above and below, rounded, nor-mal; shell white, thin, ? iseh" granular shagreened; probably greenbefore hatching; sizi ' .-; y 2 b}- 1.8 mm.Stage I.?Head ro id', free from joint 2, slight!}' bilobed; cl3'peussmall, weakly shield sha^ied; yellowish green, ocelli black, la])rumwhite; width 1 mm. Br .y cylindrical, equal, incisures not depressed,joint 12 a little enlarged', with a long (3.7 mm.), stout, nutant horn,straight, directed obliquely backward; anal plate large, triangular,with a stout, erect horn (0.5 mm.) each side of the middle, betweenwhich the horn of joint 12 fits when depressed. Segments very finelyannulate, horn subsegmented, shortly furcate, pilose, but minutely so.Pale green, the folded incisures more yellowish; horn black, reddishabout the base. Setas slender, rather long, with minutely enlargedtips, pale and obscure, normal, i dorsad to ii, v above iv and anterior,a seta on the leg base. Tubercles imperceptible.Stage II.?Head flat before, highly conical, the lobes produced intoshort cones which are closely approximate and contiguous, pointingobliquely forward; clypeus small. Pale green, shagreened, not gran-ular, a faint brown line on the face of the lobe, more distinct as itreaches the vertical cone; mouth whitish, ocelli partly black; a darkshade on the median suture behind the vertex where the head risesabove joint 2; width 1.6 mm. Body cylindrical, 8-annulate, minutel}^pilose, granular; horn long (5.5 mm.) and thick, with furcate tip,iPsyclic, VII, p. ;W5. NO.1209. LIFE HISTORIES OF AMERICAN MOTHS?DYAR. 257iiToyriferurii)\ mine were found only on the wild species of Eugenia.The moth has been placed in the Arctiidte, and Sir George Hampson,in his recent monograph of the Syntomida, omits the genus, thereby LIFE lIISTOniES OF AMElilCAN MOTHS?DYAR. 259 conIiiniiii|^ the referciu-c. Hc)wov?u", the hirva is an unequivocalSyntoniid, showing the typical structure. The moths of the Syn-tomida3 and Arctiidte are separated only by the absence of vein 8 ofthe hind wings in the former. Hampson does not use this characterabsolutely, for he includes P^ucereon in the Syntomidie, though someof the species have a rudimentary^ vein S present, and he excludesHalisidota, though some species have vein 8 nearly absent. Thelar^'al characters contirm both of these references, hut not so withEupseudosoma. In the latter genus the female has vein 8 entirelya])sent; the male has a short vein, not reaching the costa. Even onthese characters Eupseudosoma might well be included in the Syn-tomidfe; but when we consider that the subcostal vein in the male isproba))ly secondary, merely a brace for the large costal lobe, it ren-ders the reference more likel3^The larA'a presents during ontogeny the usual gradual appearanceand disappearance of characters adapted to its habits at its dift'erentstages. But there i,s one ver}" imusual feature, which is worthy ofspecial mention. The head is immaculate in all stages but one?thepenultimate. Then it assumes a large and peculiar marking. Thiswould iK)t ])e remarka])le if it appeared in the last stage, but to sud-denly appear for one stage only and then completel}' disappear isunique in my experience. It may be noted that the mark is normalin the Syntomid.v, being present in all stages of Lyuiire edwardsi^showing in ( 'tn ucha virginica and indicated in Scepsis fulvicollisj butthe cause of its sudden appearance in one stage of Knpseadosomafoj'lduin is far from <'lear. The general appearance of the rest of thelar^a does not change while the head is undergoing its transformation,and the head is not conspicuous, being more or less concealed l)y thehair. The mark was constant in all my 20 larvae.Egg.?Slightl}" more than hemispherical, base flat, apex veryslightly produced, suggesting the conoidal shape; clear 3"ellowishgreen with amber lights al)out the edges, later opaque whitish green;reticulations small, regular, rounded hexagonal, slightly raised,smaller just around the micropyle, forming a ring of small cellswith one central one; micropyle eccentric, a little to one side of thevertex oi the Qgg\ diameter, 1.1 mm.; height, 0.5 mm. Laid severaltogether or in a mass on the back of a leaf, not touching, often ratherremote and scattering.Stage I.?Head rounded squarish, slightl}^ bilobed, clypeus high,the paraclvpeal pieces nearly reaching the vertex; free from pro-thorax; antenniv moderate; primary sett\i short, black, distinct; i andii rather near the vertex, iii at the middle of the lobe, iv close toocelli, three behind the circle of ocelli (one inclosed), two below,rather approximate above the antenna. Colorless, a yellow patchshowing fi'om within by transparency; jaws, ])rown: ocelli, black;wndth. 0.1;-) mm. liodv arctiifoi-in with lai'^c tubei'cles and thick 260 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxiii.spinulose white hjiir.s. Segments short, contracted, the incisures dis-tinct; no shields. Tubercles ia+ih+iia on joints 8 and 4, distinctlyunited on a flattened, somewhat fan-shaped wart; iib small, remote,posterior; iv large; vi dark. On the abdomen tubercle i small,dark; iv stigmatal, posterior, rather small; v larger. Seta? single,no subprimaries. Body a little flattened, the lateral tubercles, espe-cially of joints 3 and 4, a little prominent. Translucent whitish,tubercles ii and iii on joints 11, 12, and 13 anteriorly dark ocherous.Hairs white; legs colorless; the anal feet divergent. On eating, thelarvae became green from the food, the ocherous tubercles faded toa dull color, joint 2 became contracted, and joints Sand 4 hunched up.Stage II.?Head flat before, rather strongly bilobed, colorless,mouth brown; width, 0.65 mm. Body a little flattened, joints 3 to 5largest, joint 2 retracted and weak, joint 13 small. Warts moderate,spherical, with rather dense, white, stiff, spinulose hairs, those ofjoints 3 and 1 the longest, very few on joint 2, the shield obsolete;prespiracular and subventral warts present, slender, produced. Onjoints 3 and 1 one wart above the stigmatal wart, discrete, round,produced. On the abdomen wart i small, ii large, iii small, iv aboutthe same size, v small, vi larger on the somewhat produced sub-ventral fold. No anal plate, but warts on the flap. Feet ratherslender, pale, with colorless plates. Luteous whitish, the sides washedwith pale vinous; deeper vinous about the subdorsal tubercles of joints3 and 1 and below ii and iii of joints 6, 6, and 10; on 11 to 13 thiscolor is more distinct, forming streaks running downward and for-ward from wart ii, on joints 12 and 13 changing from vinous to dullorange red. Skin smooth, not shining.Stage III.?Head squarish bilobed, cl3"peus rather high, faintlyluteous, a vinous spot within at apex of paraclypeal pieces; ocelli black,jaws only faintly brown; width, 0.9 mm. Warts rounded, produced,colorless, except the subdorsal ones of joints 3 and 1. which arevinous tinged, and ii of 12 and 13, which are orange. Wart i small,ii and iii large, iv and v small, vi large, produced. Color as before,])ut the vinous shading covers the dorsum on joints 3 to 10.Stage IV.?Head rounded, slightly bilobed, clypeus reaching halfway to vertex; pale testaceous, jaws black at tip; ocelli black, Ave ina semicircle and one below behind the antenna. Body short and thick,pale testaceous, vinous tinged, especiall}" in dark, oblique streaks overwarts ii and iii on joints 11 to 13. Warts rounded, elevated, color-less. Hair dense, stiff, flesh colored with black tips, barbuled. Adiffuse black dorsal patch on joint 5, the hair from tubercle i and partof ii short and black. A slight similar shade on joint 10. Laterrusty l)rown, the green food showing only dorsall}^ on joints 10 to 12.Black patches diffuse. NO. 1209. LIFE HISTORIES OF AMERICAN MOTHS?DYAR. 261Stage Y.?Head as ))cfore, the antennae rather long; width, ^ mm.Body the same, nearly colorless, only faintly In'own or vinous tinged,the posterior dorsal marks nearly ol)sol(^te. Marks replaced ))y verydense hair, but the large, diffuse black dorsal patch(\s are present onjoints -i to 6 and 9 to 10. Hair bright l)rown with short black tips,all (n^en, only a few long pale ones overhanging the head. A slight,black, crested tuft on the upper side of tubercle i on joint 5, as long asthe other hair. Hairs brightest, most reddish centrally, the end andsubventral ones without black tips. Feet all pale. Hairs rather long,barbuled, the tips formed by three or four black barbules in a terminalgroup; the barbules on the shaft concolorous with the hair. The larvalooks like a brown hairy gall on the back of the leaf.Stage VI.?Head rounded, scarcel}'^ bilobed, pale whitish, a large,thick, inverted U-shaped black mark bordering the cl3^peus and throw-ing out a short spur at the side below\ Antenna? rather long, pale;labrum whitish; width, ^.5 mm. Body flattened ventrally, rounded,thickest at joint 5 and a little depressed at the ends, entirely coveredb}' the dense, brush-like hair. Pale yellowish, scarcely translucent,warts concolorous, no marks whatever. Hair dense, even, and regular,pale yellow, spinulose, the ends slighth^ brown tufted. On the sub-dorsal wart of joints 3 and 4 a long, slender, white pencil of two orthree hairs, rather densely feathered, spinulose. Warts i to vi all largeand rather contiguous, rounded, hemispherical, the single subdorsalsof joints 3 and 4 a little elongated transversely. No trace of the tufton joint 5 of former stage. During the stage the hair becomes darkyellow.Stage YII.?Head pale j^ellow, a diffuse reddish shade over the faceof each' lobe, the paraclypeal pieces grayish and some gray dots onclypeus; labrum, epistoma, and antenna white; ocelli brown, jawsblack at tip; the black U-shaped band entirely absent; width, 3.5 mm.ft Bod}' as before, thickly covered with a brush of yellow hair, even,spinulose, the ends pointed, not tufted; four slight and slender pencilsof white hairs arise from the subdorsal warts of thorax. Body andwarts pale 3^ellow like the hairs, without marks. Later the headbecomes dark orange red. Other larvae, alike till this stage, came outAvith variously colored hair?bright j^ellow, mouse gray, chocolatebrown, and orange red, the color always residing in the distal third of^ the hair in the spinulose part, the heads and bodies not affected, beingall alike in color. All the thoracic pencils were white. Later thecolor dulls so that there are only two forms, 3'ellow and chocolatebrown, which continue distinct till maturity.Cocoons composed of the hair felted in a delicate web of silk. I'upadark brown, concealed by the cocoon.H Foodjjlants.?Eugenia hwxlfolla^ E. procei^a. 262 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxm (1EUCEREON CONFINE Herrich-Schaffer.Chariden confinis Herrich-Schaffek, Ausser. Schmett., fig. 277, 1855.Galethalea covfinis BvThER, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., XII, 1876, p. 424. ? Dkuck,Biol. Cent-Am., Lep. Het., 1, 1884, p. 80.Nelphe confinis Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het., 1, 1892, p. 172.Eucereon confine Hampson, Cai. Lep. Phal. Brit. Muh., 1, 1898, p. 508.Variety CAROLINA Edwards.NiipJie Carolina Hy. Edwards, Ent. Amer., II, 1887, p. 16(5. ? Smith, List. Lep. Bor.Am., 1891, p. 27.?Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het., 1, 1892, p. 172.Eucereon Carolina Neumoegen and Dyak, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, 1, 1893, ji. 173.The variety carolinti from southern Florida differs from the t3^pcform in that all the brown spots of the fore wings are smaller andnarrower. I have eon-fine from Mexico and Venezuela, and they con-stantly differ from the Floridian specimens hy the larger, more roundedspots, contrasted on the more whitish, less unii'ormly ocherous-tintedground color. The larva of the stem form has not been described, sono comparisons can ])e made. Our larva is a true Syntomid.Egg.?Shape of two-thirds of a sphere, rounded, smooth; white,translucent, with a pale green tint, not shining. Reticulations small,irregularly hexagonal, slightly raised, about alike all over, distinct;diameter, 0.9 mm. Laid singly on or adjoining the food plant.Stage T.?Head slightl}' bilol)ed, whitish testaceous, clypeus high,ocelli ))lack, mouth brown; width, 0.4 mm. Body all white, the shieldsconcolorous, tubercles' large, arctiiform, faintly slat^^ Feet normal,arctiiform. Setje long, stiff', pale, ii black as well as iii, l)ut posteri-orly the long black hairs have pale tips. Warts i to v present, sin-gle haired, no subprimaries; leg shields pale slaty like the tubercles;i and iv small. On the thorax ia+ib+iia, large, iib separate, pos-terior, small. Cervical shield small, reduced, concolorous. Seta3 iaand ib of joints 3 and -1 are black, iia white, l)ut all on a single wartwith a projection behind. Later the larva is pale yellowish, the foodfaintly green; tubercles pale, a little darker on the rims. Joint 2retracted and with very weak shield; no anal plate.Stage II.?Head rounded, slightly bilol)ed, pale greenish yellow,ocelli narrowly black; width, 0.5 mm. Body arctiiform, normal, paleyellow, a dark shade from the food. Warts large, perfectly concolor-ous; hairs long, straight, and rather stiff, deep black and pure whitemixed, black predominating dorsally, white subventrally. Joint 2small and retracted; joints 3 and 4 rather large. Feet all pale, noshields. Only one subdorsal wart on joints 3 and 4; wart i of abdo-men small, as also iv and v, but all several haired. Toward the endof the stage traces of a double white dorsal line appear.Stage III.?Head broad, round, bilobed; clypeus reaching about II LIFE HISTORIES OF AMERICAN MOTHS?DYAR. 2G3two-thirds to vertex; ocelli black, 5 in a semicircle and one below;jaws with 5 cusps, the upper and lower ones short, the middle one thelongest; width 1 mm. Body pale 3'ellow with a black dorsal line onjoints 3 to 12, broken at the ends, dotted and not definitely edged.Feet large, pale. Warts moderate, concolorous; hair abundant, long,but of irregular lengths, longer at the ends, joints 3 to 5 and 12, 13;coarsely gray, from a nearly even mixture of black and white; ratherstiff, spinulose, the long ones finely pointed. Food greenish; joint 12at the sides a little more yellowish than elsewhere. Later the blackdorsal line cuts a series of white, irregularly diamond-shaped dorsalspots on joints 5 to 11, two on each segment, the anterior one smaller,confluent; also a narrow yellow subdorsal line on joints 5 to 11 belowwart ii.Stage IV.?Head pale yellow, ocelli and jaws ])lack, lal)rum Avhiteat tip; broad, rounded, held out flat; width l.S mm. Body and wartscolorless, slightly yellowish, especially at the sides of thorax and joint12, sordid green from the food. A broad olivaceous black dorsalstripe, reaching tubercle ii, widened in the centers of the segments,reaching joints 3 and 12, replacing the former white; a yellow subdor-sal line below wart ii on joints 5 to 11, broken in the incisures. Hairirregular, stiff, straight, abundant, black and white, the white muchpredominating; a number of hairs at the ends much longer; barbuled.Warts i to iii and vi large, almost contiguous; i a little smaller; ivand V minute. Joint 2 retracted, hairless dorsally; joints 3 and 4with one large subdorsal wart. Superficially the larva resemblesHyx^hcmtria cuv.ea. Later the dorsal black becomes again partly white,forming a dorsal white band narrowing at wart i, widening to ii, andcontaining dorsal and addorsal, somewhat pulverulent, black lines,except posteriorly where the Ijand remains all black.Stage Fi?Head round, not bilobed, black, slightly shining, thesutures of the moderate shield-shaped clypeus and median suture nar-rowly olive green as also epistoma and antennw, including ])asal joint;tip of labrum, palpi, and ocelli also pale; width 2.9 mm. Body alittle flattened ventrally, arched, a little narrowed at the ends; joint 2retracted and nearly without hairs; anal flap with warts. Wartslarge, rounded or elliptical, one subdorsal ou joints 3 and -1, a palespace indicating seta iib; on abdomen i to iii and vi large, iv andV small, but distinct warts. Body black dorsally and on centers ofsegments down to the feet; pale greenish ventrally and in incisures upto the level of wart iv where is a trace of a white stigmatal line, onlyintersegmeutally. Warts dull flesh color, contrasting with th(> l)ody.Hair mostly black, l)ut mixed Avith gray and white, especially subven-trally, the long hairs at the ends of the body white on the apical third.Hair long, rather even, coarse, spinulose, the long ones at the cuds 264 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. numeroii.s. Feet all pale, as also the incisures narrowly, seen whenthe body is bent. Spiracles white; joint 2 all pale greenish. A slightblack dorsal tuft on joint 12.Cocoon spun on a leaf, elliptical, flattened below, made of hairs andsilk, the hairs forming a point at one end, all as in Lymire ed/wardd.Pupa concealed, brown, normal.Foodplants.?Phillhertia vlminalis^ Vincetoximmi 2Kdiistre.SCEPSIS FULVICOLLIS Hubner.The larva of this common moth has been briefly descril)ed hy Coquil-lett. The following life history was obtained from eggs from NewYork City, handed me by Mr. L. H. Joutel.Egg.?Low conoidal, the base flat; more than hemispherical; shin-ing pale yellow; surface very finely, nearly hexagonally, reticulate,the lines narrow; diameter, 0.7 mm. Laid in rows on a grass blade.Stage I.?Head rounded, slightly bilobed, pale whitish, shading tobrown on the apices of the lobes, a large, rounded, black spot on theface of each lobe and a much smaller one over ocelli; width, 0.4 mm.Body whitish, cervical shield brown, the tubercles and anal plate slatyblack. Hair long, spinulose, ])lack. Hairs all single, no subpri-maries; on thorax ia, ib, and iia on a single wart, iib small, remote,posterior; on abdomen i smaller than ii, iv and v small, iv behindthe spiracle, normal.Stage 11.?Head rounded, bilobed, full, pale transparent luteous, alarge, black patch on the front of each lobe above; ocelli black, mouthdark brow^n; a narrow, dark line on vertical suture; width, 0.0 mm.Cervical shield small, transverse; warts i and iv single haired, thelatter very small; ii, iii, and vi many haired, vi large; a group ofhairs on the leg shield. Bod}' translucent, faintly luteous, a broad,shaded brown, dorsal stripe, widening irregularh' in the incisures, anda narrower, iri'egular, lateral shading forming broad rings aboutwarts iii. Warts large, colorless, but with small black tubercles foreach hair. Hairs black and pale, slightly spinulose, pointed, rathershort. On joints 3 and 4 only one large subdorsal wart; tubercle v alarge wart, but single haired.StoAje III.?Head rounded, slightly bilobed, shining sordid whitish,a black patch on the face of each lobe above, a small one over ocelli,and very small one in apex of clypeus; mouth brown; width, 0.75 mm.Body cylindrical, arctiiform, with distinct warts and normal feet.Scarcely any hair on joint 2, the hair of joints 3, 4, 12, and 13 muchlonger than on the rest of the body. Hair thin, fine, spinulose, ))lack,paler subvcntrally. Body dorsally dull reddish, a darker dorsal line,a pale subdorsal one just below wart ii, and traces of a lateral oneabove iii; below iii, including the subventral region and feet, pale LIFE HISTORIES OF AMERICAN MOTHS?DYAR. 265whitish, sharply marked from the dorsal color. Warts l)lack, ii, iii,V, and vi large, i small, all many haired except i and v, which haveonly two or three hairs, iv a tiny rudiment behind the spiracle, justperceptible. Joint 2 much contracted, the cervical shield indistinct;joint 3 a little elevated above 2. Thoracic warts as before; lib quitevisible.Stage IV.?Head ])ilobed, full, shining- pale luteous, a black spot oneach lobe before, one in clj'peus, a streak in the vertical suture, andocelli narrowly black; mouth only slightly brown; Avidth, 1.2 mm.BodA' nearh' black, a faint, pale luteous subdorsal and suliventral ])and,straight and even, the subventral the broader, both obscure. Joint 2much contracted, the long hairs of 3 overhanging the head. Otherhair moderate, black and white. Warts large, arctiiform, manyhaired except iv, which is obsolete. Wart i large, smaller than ii;iii largest of all. Warts dark gray, with black hair-tubercles. Allfeet black.Stage Y.?Head full and rounded, scarcely at all bilobed, very paleluteous brown, the small clypeus and a transverse band adjoining itand nearly covering ocelli as well as vertical suture narrowly andposterior edge of occiput, black; labrum. antenna?, and mouth pale;width, l.S mm. Body black, venter gra}^, as also joint 2, which isnearly without hairs except subventrally ; cervical shield shining, small.Lines all obsolete, subventral fold a little pale; throracic feet partlyblack, abdominal ones pale. Warts large, black; hairs black andwhite, moderate, a group of longer ones overhanging the head.Another had the head pale, a tiny brown spot on the face of each lobeand apex of clypeus; the two groups of ocelli narrowly black and aline in the vertical suture. The warts are large, except i\', which isa nearly hairless rudiment. Later black, subdorsal line faintly trace-able, pale brownish, subventral line whitish in a broad pale gray areathat extends from wart iv to venter. As the body pales further withgrowth, a dark dorsal line appears and shades below the subdorsal andabove the subventral stripes.Stage YL?Head round, full, rather large, not bilobed; clypeussmall, shining reddish luteous, marked with black as before; para-clypeal pieces pale; width 2.6 mm. Body arctiiform, joint 2 con-tracted; warts large, low, black, iv obsolete. Dorsum dark gra}-,with shaded black dorsal line; subdorsal line distinct, bright orangeshaded, especially posteriorly on the segments, sides black; substig-matal line pale yellow, a little transversely streaked, like the subdorsalone; venter gray; feet very pale. The long hairs of joints 3 and -t(from the large warts ia+ib+iia and iv+v) and joints 12 (fromwart ii) and 13 (from warts i, ii, and anal plate warts) are black;those from the rest of the body paler, from i to iii slightly penciled; 266 PROCEEDiyaS of the national museum. vol. xxm.subventral hairs diffusely spreading. On thorax warts iib and iiiare present as single hairs. Warts all surrounded by whitish rings.Joint 2 is so shrunk up as to be concealed; no hairs arising from it.Cocoon spun on the cover of the jar, very thin, mostly of hair, thepupa visible; a tuft of hair in front, as in Lymire edwardsl.Pupa.?Cylindrical, slightly tapering, head prominent, the thoraxsloping; flesh colored, nearly white; traces of the reddish subdorsalline of the larva and rather numerous black marks in double segmen-tal, subdorsal, and stigmatal spots and ventral stripe reaching overcases and all, and the edges of cases, especially the costa of fore wings.Eggs hatched September 15, imago OctoT)er 19'. The species seemsto breed continuousl}' until stopped by the cold, unlike CtnucJm vlr-ginica, which has a deiinite hibernating period and is single brooded.Food plants.?Species of grass.CISTHENE SUBJECTA Walker.Cisthcne subjcda Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., II, 1854, p. 534. ? .Stketcii, Zyg. Bomb.N. A., 1872, p. 155. ? Neumoegen and Dyae, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, I, 1893,p. 115.Hypoprepia packurdil Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Pliil., II, 1863, p. 31. ? ^NIurtfeldt,Psyche, III, 1881, p. 243. .Miss Murtfeldt has described the mature larva. She found threemolts after hibernation. My larvee reached stage V before hilierna-tion, and so would probably not have had l)ut one molt in the spring,perhaps not any. They failed, however, to pass the winter. Thefollowing, with Miss Murtfeldt's description of the mature form, willgive the full life history of the little species.The larva is somewhat anomalous. Like lichen feeders in general,the warts are practically single haired. This reduction, affecting thewart characters of the Lithosiida?, is interesting, though it naturallytends to somewhat confuse the phylogenetic arrangement character-istic of the family. However, we see tubercles ia and ib of the thoraxstill in line anterio-posteriorly, which seems to be the essential point,although they do not become multiple haired and arc somewhatcrowded together.Egg.?Rounded conoidal, the Imse flat and concave centrally, notquite so wide as the egg itself; surface pol3^hedral, the cell areas flat-tened, rounded hexagonal, reticulations scarcely raised, rather small,surface slightly shagreened; diameter 0.7 mm. The eggs are laitl ina line, separated from each other and each tipped at an angle so thatthey rest on only one corner of the base. This gives it, at first sight,the appearance of having an odd, unusual shape.Stage I.?Head rounded, bilobed, clj^peus moderate^ high; color-less, transparent, a black patch on the face of each lobe above, anotherover ocelli; labrum l)lack; vertex faintly brown shaded; width, 0.3 mm.Body cylindrical, arctiiform, segments well marked; feet normal, with NO. 1200. IJFE HISTORIES OF A3IERICAX MOTIIS?nYAIi. 267slender, club-shaped, protuded planta bearing- few crochets; colorless,transparent, glassy. Tubercles small, conic, concolorous; shields ob-scure, not colored. Hairs of various lengths, spinulose, arctiiform,the strong ones dark brown, the weak ones colorless. Hairs of joint 2small. On thorax, warts ia and ib in line anterio-po.steriorly, iibweak; hairs all single, no subprimaries. On abdomen i absent onjoints 5 to 9, a trace on joint 10, a small seta on joints 11 and 12; iiand iii distinct, iv behind the spiracle, \' sul)veiitral; ii and iii ofjoints 12 and. 13 are very long, six times the width of the hod}' ormore. Head setie rather short, pale, spinulose. Ocelli six, in a rec-tangle.SUuja II.?Head rounded, bilobed, mouth scjuarely produced; trans-lucent, whitish; lal)rum, spot below vertex of each lobe, back part ofthe side, and a spot covering- the eyes black; width, o.l nmi. Bodysquarish, u little flattened, whitish, translucent, all the dorsum appear-ing grayish from the food. Legs slender, normal. Warts ratherlarge, pale; i a single hair curved forward, ii single, curved back-ward: iii with two hairs, iv and v single, \'\ with two hairs; legshield with shoi't hairs. On thorax ia, il), and iia gathered togethera little, but not on a true wart; iii, iv, and v likewise approximate.The thoracic hairs arc almost exactly as in stage i, except for theaddition of seta^ iii and v. Hairs dusky, the ones at the ends long.Anal i)latc and cervical shield reddish; also paired spots of this coloron joint 5 over tubercle ii and on joint 9 over i.St(tge III?Head rounded, full above, scarcely bilobed, not higherthan joint 2; translucent, whitish, shining, a black patch on vertexof each lobe, one on face of lobe above, over ocelli, and on jaws; adark shade in vertical suture; width, 0.55 mm. Body rather flattened;feet large, spreading; translucent, whitish; a faint, broken, whitedorsal, sul)dorsal, and sul)ventral stripe and a row of subdorsal brown-gray spots on tubercle iii, with a large reddish one on joint 5, veryfaintly also on joint 11; the subdorsal spot of joint 12 large. Wartsconcolorous, hairs pale, tine; seta? i azid ii single, short, black, spinu-lose; iii w^ith two hairs, one of them long; iv and v single, pale; viwith two hairs, pale. Hairs all as before on the thorax. The dorsalwhite stripe is composed of a series of squarish patches on the seg-ments posteriorly; the others are narrower, broken lines. Joint 12slightlv eidarged. Cervical shield, anal plate, and a series of ventralpatches ol)scurely gray-brown. Later the dorsum is greenish, thepatch on joint 9 large, single, dorsal, the whole larva closel}^ resem-bling bark. Length at end of stage, 5.5 nun.Stage /K?Head rounded, slightly ])ilob(Kl, the clypeus two-thirdsits height; labrum quadrate, large; ocelli distinctl}^ projecting: trans-lucent whitish: a large black patch on the face of each lobe, ii regu-larly shaped, running back to the occiput; a rounded patch over eyes; 268 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxiii.black triangular mottlings in the vertical suture; jaws black; setaepale, rather long; Avidth, O.S mm. Body flattened, thorax a littlelargest, joint 2 distinct and as large as the others, joint 18 rather small;translucent gra}^ finely black dotted, a white dorsal Ijand, composedof intrasegmental l)lotches, each of three transverse, confluent streaks,distinct only on joints 5 to 11; a waved, black lateral line forming-three strong segmental loops on the thorax, then at joint 5 running-high and coA^ering tubercle ii, on joints 6 to 10 forming- a series ofoblique lines from before subdorsally to behind su])ventrally, on joints11 to 13 confused blotches. A series of ))lack streaks below wart v.Warts i. ii. v, and vi dull orange. Pale yellow, black edged dotsmost distinct dorsall}' on the thorax and on joint 12 and laterall}' belowthe ])lack band. Hairs sparse, moderate; blackish dorsally and palesubventrally. Warts iii and vi two-haired, the rest single. Thoraxas before.StageV.?Head round, wider than high, very full in front, the cl3'p-eus not depressed, high; labrum projecting; marked as before, butthe clypeus all pale; width 1.15 nun. Body exactly as before. Onthe thorax the white dorsal line is nearly obsolete and the 8ul)dorsalblack line is more lateral than on the body, making the dorsal spacebroadly pale; it looks depressed (though not really so) and difl'erentfrom the rest of the larva. Feet pale. The arrangement of the tho-racic warts is: ia and ib closely approximate, in line anterio-poste-riorly; iia below, separate; iib small, remote, posterior; iii distinct,posterior; iv and v closely approximate, anterior; \\ subventral, allsingle-haired. ,Fo(>d 2>lant.?The scurfy bark and tiny lichens growing- on the stemsof oak trees. Larvae from Bellport, Long Island, New York. EggsAugust 9. Larvie hibernating October 1.5.CALIDOTA STRIGOSA Walker.Arctki sirigosu Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., Ill, 1855, p. 615.Halisidota sirig'oso Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., Ill, 1855, p. 7o6.?Moschler, Abh.Senck. Ges., XIV, 1886, p. 34. ? Neumoegen and Dyak, Jonrn. IST. Y. Ent. Soc,1,1893, p. 168.JIdUsidotu cuhensis Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., V, 1865, p. 243.Halisidota laqneata Hy. Edwards, Ent. Amer., II, 1887, p. 166.?SMixn, List Lep.Bor. Am., p. 27, 1891, no. 1144.Theages sirigom Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het., 1, 1892, p. 202. ? Dyak, Can. Ent., XXIX,1897, p. 217.I have placed this speeies in Theages Walker, following Kirl)y; butHampson has shown that Theages is a synonym of Eucereon. There-fore a new generic term seems required for this moth, which I pro-pose as above. The genus has been limited by me ^ as Theages. Itdiffers from Halisidota by the presence of the accessory cell. 1 Canadian Entomologist., XXIX, 1897, p. 216. NO. 1209. LIFE HISTORIES OF AMERICAN MOTHS?DYAR. 269The lar\a oi-curred to mo at Palm Beach, tMoiida. It is a trueAivtiaii, rcsi'inbling Hali.sidota, but lacking- the hair piMu-il.s. It per-sistently hides by day in leaves, apparently on th(> o-round near itstree, and is consequently difficult to tind.Stxyc I.?Head round, slig-hth^ bilobed; lobes full; ch'peus moder-ate; pale brown, shining, mouth blackish; width, O.G mm. Bodyochraceous, orange brown in the incisures; a broad white dorsal stripeon joints 5 to 10. edged by a subdorsal brown stripe that occupies allof the dorsum of joint 11; joints 3 and 1 dorsally pinkish ])rown. Nocervical shield nor anal plate; seta? in groups of tive subdorsally onjoint 2. Legs normal, arctiiform; shields elongate, dusky; tuber-cles colorless, i to iii of joint 5 black, iii to vi of joints 5 to 11 dusky.On thorax ia-|-ib, iia separate, lib weak, remote, posterior, vi 2-haired,iii and v absent. On abdomen iv behind the spiracle, vi present, elon-gate, without hairs. Hairs black, spinulose, ib of joints 3 and 1, iii of12, and the subventral ones white.A still younger larva was difluseh" whitish lead color centrally onjoints (> to 10, orange at the ends, all the tubercles dusk}' ])lackish.Stage II.?Head rounded, bilobed, full; clypeus moderate; testace-ous brown, shining; ocelli black; width, 0.9 mm. Joint 2 retractedand with lateral warts only; joints 3 and 4 large, with long hair over-hanging the head; two warts above the stigmatal wart, the upper onethe larger. On the abdomen warts i to vi present, about alike, mod-erate, wart i a trace smaller, iv stigmatally posterior. Joints 2 to 4and 12 to 13 orange, 12 the lightest; dorsum of joints 5 and 11 dullvinous; dorsum of joints 6 to 10 and subventral region (tubercle iv tothe feet) opaquely whitish. Thoracic and anal feet orange tinted;abdominal ones of joints 7 to 10 pale, with concolorous shields. Wartsblack; hair ])lack dorsally, white subventrally, not very abundant,longer at the ends. Later all vinous except joint 12, joints 2 to 4lighter than the central part; subventer whitish, the white stripereduced to dots along wart v.Stage III?Head I'ounded, orange testaceous, ocelli black, four ina semicircle, two below; jaws brown, mouth area pale; width, 1.36 mm.Joint 2 much retracted, no cervical shield, as before. Dark vinousdorsall}'; subventer and feet pale, nearly colorless. Joint 2 dorsalh'luteous; 3 dark reddish orange; 6 to 10 white in a broad dorsal areareaching wart ii; 12 orange, 13 paler except a narrow purplish dorsalband on joints 12 and 13. Warts colorless; anal feet pale, extended.Hair al)undant, black and white mixed, spinulose, longest at the ends.The Ijlack hairs are slightly more pointed dorsally on joints 5 and 12,but not forming tufts. A white stigmatal line on joints 5 to 11. Thelarva looks purple, marked with white; the head, joints 1 and 12 red.Stage IV.?Head shining dark red brown, a little blackish linedabout the sutures, epistoma white; width 2.1 nun. Body as before, 270 PROCEEBTNOS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vm. xxm.the dor.suin of joints 6 to 10 broadly gray white, cut by a slendordusky dorsal line; joints i and i2, except dorsally on joint 12, dullorange. All the rest blackish purple with narrow white line on thesubventral fold; feet and venter pale, nearly colorless, A short blacktuft from the upper side of wart ii on joints 5 and 12, forming apaired tuft on joint 5, single on joint 12. Other hair moderatelydense, not concealing the body, fine, sordid reddish and ])lackishmixed, with some long white ones at the ends. The general tint ofthe hair is a reddish brown. Warts pale, slightly flesh-colored, mod-erate, round. With growth the color becomes more sordid, the whitesuffused with dull red, the dark purple parts lighter and more pur-plish, only joint 5 remaining dark. Warts surrounded by white rings;feet reddish.Stage V.?Head broad, not high, full and round, scarcely bilobed;clypeus reaching nearly to the top of the front; shining black, epis-toma narrowly and the base of antennae white; width 2.5 mm. Bodysordid gray; subdorsally on joints 6 to 10 and 12, the ground coloris lighter and pale salmon tinted; warts all pale salmon color. Hairrather uniform, moderately dense, reddish, nuich the color of deadleaves, but lighter and somewhat salmon colored like the warts. Thelong hairs anteriorly and posteriorly are whitish. A narrow whitishstripe along the stigmatal fold of joints 5 to 12. Feet pale, slightlyreddish. Warts large, round, i, iv, and v a trifle smaller, all wellalternating, arctiiform. Joint 2 much retracted, with slight warts;two subdorsal warts on joints 3 and 4, ib and iii present as distinctrudiments. Hair spinulose, sharp pointed. No tufts, the dorsal hairnot even keeled. Spiracles black rimmed. Later the larva is uni-formly sordid grayish with a dusky dorsal line, the hair pinkishbrown, slightly darker dorsally on joints 5 and 12. White substig-matal band obsolete except intersegmentally,/Stage VI.?Head shining lilack, basal joint of antenna? reddish,epistoma slightly paler at the sides, mostly black; width 4 mm. Bodyfleshy brown with a vascular dorsal blackish stripe; warts and hairlight pinkish brown. Hair regular, dense, with numerous longerconeolorous ones at the ends. White subventral band (above wart v)present in the incisures only, obscure. Feet reddish. The hair isdensely spinulose; seen at right angles it is pale pinkish brown; seenobliquely it is much darker and more reddish brown.Cocooii elliptical, rather thin, composed of hair and silk, spun amongleaves, not entir(^ly concealing the pupa.Pupa dark mahoganj^ l)rown, shaped as in Halisidota.Food 'plant.? Giiettarda elliptica. NO. 1209. LIFE HISTORIES OF AMERICAN MOTHS?DYAR. 271INGURA BURSERiE Dyar./Stage I.?Head greenish luteous, ocelli black, mouth In-own; width,0.3 mm. Body thickest anteriorly, feet normal; translucent yellow,green tinted. Tubercles small, all neatly black, i to v present; noshields, the leg plates dusky.Stage II.?Head 0.5 mm. Green, no marks, four l)la('k tubercleson the cervical shield. Shape as in the next stage. Tubercles obso-lete, setae pale, short. Skin translucent, the dorsal vessel showingdarker.Stage III.?Head slightly squarish, bilobed, green, the jaws brown;clypeus reaching about half way to vertex; width, 0.8 nun. Bodycylindrical, thickest in front on joints 2 to 5, tapering posteriorly,especialh' on joint 13. Feet normal, the anal pair divergent. Green,a yellow subdorsal line on joints 5 to 13 anteriorly. Shields notcornitied; four black tu])orcles on the anterior edge of the cervicalshield; all else colorless; tubercle iv substigmatal posteriorly; seta?pale.Stage IV.?Head as before, ocelli l)lack, clypeus reaching less thanhalf w^ay to vertex; width, 1.3 mm., small in proportion to the body.Green, the food showing darker; subdorsal line yellow, on joints 3 to13 anteriorly, with irregular yellow specks iii front on joints 2 and 3.No shields, the black tubercles on the anterior edge of joint 2 arewhite edged. A yellow stigmatal line on joints 2 to 12. Feet nor-mal, with long claspers.Stage Y.?Head rounded, soft green, the ocelli black, five in a semi-circle and one ])elow l)ohind the antenna, the third the largest; jawsbrown; width, l.S nun. Translucent green, the food darker; sub-dorsal line from joint 3 to anal plate, stigmatal from 2 to 12 ante-riorly, narrow, yellow. Rather numerous, irregular yellow dotsscattered over the l)ody and on the anal feet. Spiracles reddish;tubercles small, concolorous, seta? pale. Six tubercles on the cervicalshield, the two upper anterior ones black; no cornitied shields.Tubercle iv ])elow the spiracle on joints 7 to 10, in line with tubercleV on joint 11, below the spiracle on joint 12.StageVI.?Head 2.1- mm. As before, but the l)lack dots on joint 2are minute and inconspicuous. Yellow subdorsal and stigmatal linesdistinct, the irregular spots numerous. Slight, dull, reddish, mottlingsabout tulxn-cles iii and v.Cocoon in the sand or between leaves on the ground, tln^ Knavespartly bitten up.Food jc>Z?^^,?"Gumbo-limbo"' {Bursera gnmmifera)\ larva^ fromPalm Beach, Florida. 272 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxm.GONODONTA UNICA Neumoegen.Egg.?Shape of two-thirds of a sphere; reticulations small, irregu-larly pentagonal, linear, pale; no ribs; diameter, 0.65 mm. Laid scat-teringlv over the leaves singly or in groups, numerously, a very largeproportion being destroyed liy parasitic Hymenoptera.Stage II.?Head round and broad, thin, especially above, scarcelybilobed; sooty black, labrum narrowh^ white. Body cylindrical,thickened at joints 5 to 7 and 12, which is well humped, the sides ofjoints 6 and 7 folded and projecting; abdominal feet on joints 9, 10, and13. Sooty black, joints 9 and 10 a little greenish, with black dorsalline; a pure white subdorsal fleck on joint 2; four lateral ones on joint8, the two upper ones large and joined by a bar, the second centeredby a black tubercle (iii); a bright orange, oblique, subdoi-sal spot onjoints 5 and 6, and a rounded one on joint 12. SetiB short, black.Segments annulate near the incisures.Stage III.?Head round, bilobed, sooty black, the labrum white;width, 1 mm. Body greatl}" hunched at joints 3 to 7, forming arounded, thick loop, the bases of feet of joint -1 touching the venter ofjoint 8; joint 12 enlarged triangularly. Abdominal feet short andsmall, none on joint 7, a small pair on 8, distinct feet on 9, 10, and 13.Purplish black, annulate, spotted with orange and white. The whitespots are a large lateral one on joint 2, a small one on edge of cervicalshield, a lateral patch on joint 8 in part; the orange spots are obliquesubdorsals on joints .5 and 6, lateral patch on joint 8 in part, subven-tral spots on joints 8 to 10, and a rounded subdorsal spot on joint 12.Later line transverse white lines appear between the obscure annulets.Stage IV.?Head bilobed, free from the prothorax; sooty black,bases of antennae and labrum whitish; clypeus not reaching half wayto the vertex; width, 1.8 mm. Bod}" cylindrical, nearl}'^ uniform, butwell looped up at joints 5 to 8; joint 12 enlarged dorsally. Feet ofjoint 8 small, functionless, normal on 9, 10, and 13. Body marked inthe pattern of the genus Alypia. Black, finely transversely lined withwhite, 15 to 20 lines per segment, some continuous, some confused andbroken, subreticulate. Those below the slight subventral fold runlongitudinal!}' and are more reticulate; cervical shield obsolete, con-colorous, a white spot on each side. Subdorsal orange spots, partlywhite bordered, on joints 5,6, 8, to 12; also small ones on 9 to 11.Similar spots on the subventral fold on joints 7 to 12, largest on joints8 to 10. Anal flap and l)ases of feet concolorous, white reticulate.Thoracic feet lilack.Stage Fi?Head rounded bilobed, full, clypeus shield-shaped, reach-ing less than half way to vertex; width, 2.7 mm.; sooty black, epis-toma white. Body as before, the cervical shield black, white-lined,with dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral large white spots. Body black, NO. 1209. LIFE HISTORIES OF AMERICAN MOTHS?DYAR. 273finely white lined as before. Sul)dorstil and subventral spots creamyorange, white edged, the subdorsal ones on joints 5, 0, 8 to 12, the sub-ventral ones on joints 6 to 13. Thoracic feet black.Cocoon composed of large pieces of leaf, bitten off h\ the larva andunited by silk, the ends roughly projecting, resembling a nest of aleaf-cutting bee.Food plant.?Anona UmTifolia. Larvae from Palm lieach, P'lorida.PERIDROMA INCIVIS Guende.I have given the life history of this species previousl}^ ' from notesmade ten years ago; but the present notes contain so many additionalpoints that I have concluded to reproduce them. The later larvaipassed one more molt than the former, the former omitting thenormal Stage II, as appears from the measurements. The width ofhead for Stage I, as given in my first description, should be correctedto 0,3 mm.E{i(j.?Spheroidal, the base flattened; about 40 vertical ribs, dimin-ishing alternately in number to about 15 about the vertex, which iscoarsely reticulate; cross stria? distinct lines; dark purplish whenfound; diameter, 0.6 mm. The eggs were laid in a large mass on theleaf of a tree; the larva? fed on the grass beneath.Stmie I.?Head rounded, bilobed, clypeus two-thirds to vertex;sordid luteus with brown flecks; ocelli black; width 0.3 mm. Cervi-cal shield nearly semicircular, brown dotted, cornified, bisected ])y abroad, pale, dorsal line; anal plate small, smoky. Thoracic feet black;abdominal on joints 7 to 10 and 13 with smoky shields, the feet ofjoints 7 and S small. Body cylindrical, joint 12 a little enlarged;colorless, food green; tubercles small, round, black. Faint subdorsal(i and ii). lateral, broader stigmata! (iii and iv) and subventral brokenbrown lines. Tubercles normal, no subprimaries, iv behind the spira-cle. On thorax tubercles i and ii separate.Stage II.?Head rounded, bilobed, erect; whitish, faintly washedwith ])rown, especially in two obscure, vertical bands; ocelli black;width (1.4.5 nun. Body green, four side stripes of purplish brown, awhite substigmatal band between the last two, the subventral onesomewhat broken. Dorsum rather broadly green; feet and venterpale; feet on joints 7 and 8 very short. Setae black; tubercles smalland obscure. Joint 12 hiunped.8ta(je HI.?Head whitish, ocelli black, mouth brown; a faint brown))and, curved, parallel to sutures, and one back from ocelli, belowwhich are some distinct dark l)rown reticulations; width 0.6 mm.Green, uniform in size, joint 12 a little enlarged. Cervical shieldfaintly luteous, scarcely cornified. Dorsal line white, narrow; subdor- ' Canadian Entomologist, XXVI, p. 18.Proc. N. M. vol. xxiii 18 274 ' PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxm. sal, lateral, and stigmatal lines dark brown, with two white lines fillingup the space between them: below a distinct white line on subventralfold; a brown subventral l)and over tuVjercle vi. Tubercles and settesmall, black. Leg shields dusky.Stage IV.?Head as before, width 0.8 mm. Bod}^ green, dorsal linewhite, green edged; subdorsal and lateral lines light brown; suprastig-matal broadtn-, darker purplish brown; substigmatal white, broad;traces of a l)rown subventral band; no shields; tubercles and setaeminute, black.Stage V.? Green form,. Head rounded, green, shining, a blackishline parallel to clypeus and sutures, one back from ocelli and a fainterone between over face of lobe, all somewhat reticulate. Width 1.3mm. Body noctuiform, joint 12 slightly enlarged, no shields, feetequal. Green, finely whitish and brown mottled. Geminate dorsaland four side lines below tubercle ii greenish black. Substigmatalband broad, red centered, reaching from joint 2 anteriorly to the analfoot, dark edged above. Feet pale. Tubercles and setae small, black.Brownform.?The same, Init the head luteous and the body brownishtinged; lines brown, not blackish green.Stage VI.?Head luteous, the lines as before, blackish, reticulate;width 2.1 mm. Bod}- brown, like dead grass, with a broad white substigmatal band from joint 2 to the anal foot, broadh" filled in with red,slightly cut by the spiracles except on joints 2 and 12, where it passesbelow them. Skin marked with red-brown, faintl}^ lined. Geminatedorsal and broken subdorsal black powderings appear as dorsal inter-segmental and subdorsal segmental black specks; a double obscurebrown lateral band. Subventer red mottled, dark brown shaded belowthe substigmatal band, which is sharp edged on both sides; feet pale.Cervical shield pale, trilineate with whitish; anal plate slighth" green-ish, otherwise like the body. Tubercle iv of joint 5 is at the middleof the spiracle, on joint 6 l)elow the lower corner, on joints 7 to 10below the middle, on joint 11 below the spiracle, on joint 12 above themiddle. Leg shields transparent, with three black tubercles in atriangle.Stage VII.?The same; width of head 2,7 mm. Sul)stigmatal bandbroadly reddish centered, mottled, brown spotted, leaving a sharp-edged white line above and below. Other lines as before, a lighter,more j^ellowish brown space in the middle of the side. Spiracleswhite, black edged.Piqxi in the ground, light brown.Food 2)lant.?Grass (Cenchrus) , CAPNODES PUNCTIVENA Smith.Egg.?Low domed, the base flat; circular from top view, one-thirdof a circle from the side. Reticulations distinct, finely linear, hexag- LIFE HISTORIES OF AMERICAN MOTHS?D YAR. 2 7 5 oiiiil. a little elono-ate vertically and seeming to be slightly arrangedin vertical lines; a slight obsolescence at vertical inicropyle. No ribs,})ut faintl}^ indicated vertical groovings, a suggestion rather than anytangible structure, seen only in certain lights. Color translucentgreen. Diameter 1.2 mm., height 0.3 mm. (The agg Avas accidentallydestroyed, so that there is a possibility of its being wrongl}^ deter-mined.)Stojje III.?Head round and full, the sutures obscure, free fromjoint 2; mouth not projecting; pale green, ocelli black, tubercles])rown, making it look speckled; mouth brownish; width 0.0 mm.Body slender, the incisures well marked, anal feet stretched out pos-teriorly. Abdominal feet on joints 7 to 10, very small on 7, small on8, normal on 9 and 10. Pale green, smooth, translucent, incisures alittle shining, tubercles small, brown, i and iii the largest, iv sub-stigmatal posteriorly. Seta? long, dusky, rather coarse. No shields,the corresponding tubercles brown as on the body. Tubercle vi pale,without brown coloration.Stage IV.?Head slightly bilobed; ocelli ])lack, four above in acurved row, two below in line posteriorly with the antennas; clj^peusreaching half way to vertex; width 0.8 mm. Pale green, tuberclesbrown, sette black. Bod}" as before, the tuljercles brown, ib of thoraxand ii of abdomen in a large spot, the others small.Stage V.?Head 1.4 mm. Soft green, tubercles all roundedly redbrown, ii large. Body slender, feet of joint 7 somewhat small.Tubercle iv fully to the middle of the spiracle on joint 5, below thespiracle on 6, becoming higher posteriori}^ at 10 nearly opposite themiddle, on 11 lower but only substigmatal, on V2 below the lower cor-ner. Setee long, dark dorsally, pale subventrally. A faint brokenreddish lateral line below tubercle ii.Stage VI.?The same; head 1.8 mm. The reddish lateral line isfaint and broken, with some similar spots below, irregular, avoidingthe tubercles. The merest trace of a similar nai-row subdorsal linealong tubercles i and ii. Otherwise no change from the previousstage, green, the tubercles brown. The color is soft and translucent,but the food not visible, not shining.Stage VII.?Head 2.2 mm. Green, the tubercles on head and ))odybrownish red; traces of a broken subdorsal (tubercles i and ii), lateral,suprastigmatal (iii) lines and very faint subventral mottlings. Spir-acle of joint 12 three times as large as the others. Tubercle iv bc^owthe lower corner of spiracle as before. Claspers of feet very large,the anal feet divergent. Rather slender and a little flattened, nar-rower posteriorly, Seta3 distinct, black.Pupa in a slight web in the ground.Food plant a species of Eugenia, probably E. luxifolia. Larvafrom Palm Beach, Florida. 276 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxm.REMIGIA LATIPES Guenee.The mature larva has been l:)riefly described ])y Mrs. Swainson/who mentions the peculiar habit it has of folding itself up with thethoracic feet touching the abdominal ones of joints 9 and 10 and anangle in the body at joint 5. The larva feeds at night, living concealedin the grass.Ji'f/(j.-?Spheroidal, \'ery slightly Hattencd al)ove and ])clow. sym-metrical; about 2-i low, sharp, vertical ribs, not diminishing in num-ber till toward vertex, where all end; cross lines tine and obscure,those with the vertical reticulations invisible to the lens, but seenunder a half-inch ol)jeetive. Diameter 0.7 mm. Slightly greenish-gray, not shining. Later a vertical didl-red blotch and irregular lateralring.Stttf/e I.?Head bilobed, rounded, full, free from joint 2, clypeussmall; shining testaceous, brown tinted; ocelli black; width 0.3 mm.Body slender, thread-like; feet on joints J), -10, and 13. Colorlesstransparent, food green; shields all concolorous and inconspicuous.Tubercles small, round, black. A subdorsal (over tubercles i and ii),lateral (above iii) and stigmatal (tubercle iv), faintly brown lines.Central segments long drawn out, the tubercles remote. Thoracicsegments and joints 9 to 13 normal, not elongate. Cervical shieldwith two detached setie on the posterior corners, four on the shield;greenish, concolorous. Head set}? normal, clypeal and paraclj^pealones small. Anal feet directed posteriorly, blackish outwardly.Tu])erclc i of joint 11 very small, the segment therefore weak. Othertubercles normal, i and ii in line, iv behind the spiracle; on thorax iaand ib approximate, iia and iib remote, iv anterior; no subprimaries.Later the narrow brown lines are more distinct, covering joints 2 to13 with a line on the anal foot.Stage II.?Head round, bilobed, full, cheeks below squarish, clypeusreaching alwve middle of front; whitish, green tinted, four verticalbrown stripes on each lobe; the two next median suture join al)Ove,diverge below, one to the jaw, the other to antenna; this joins thethird at antenna, which then runs to l)ack of head laterally. The fourth,on lower edge of cheek behind ocelli, is dou])le, the ends approximate,forming a pointed ellipse; width 0.5 mm. Body slender, uniform, alittle flat; abdominal feet on joints 9, 10, and 13, the latter directedposteriorly. Three brown stripes on each side, reaching joints 2 and13, the shields invisible and uncornitied. The lines are subdorsal (overtubercles i and ii), lateral and stigmatal (covering iii and iv), with twofainter subventral lines on vi and vii, respective^, situated below thesubventral fold and ventrally opposed. Tubercles small, black, welliJouru. N. Y. Ent. Sw., VIII, 'p. 33. 1 1 1 NO.1209. LIFE HISTORIES OF AMERICAN MOTHS?DYAR. 277sepaiuted on the centnil segments, iv al)()\e tlKvspiraclc. nc^irh in linewith iii. Setfe dusky, feet pak>.Stage TIL?Head round, large, free from joint 2, slightly bilohod,clypeus rather small; Avhitish, with five nearly parallel brown bands oneach lobe, continuous with the lines on the ])ody. They are a littleirregular and lighter brown in the center of each. Width 0.8 mm.Bod}' slender ])ut uniform, a little flattened ventrally; abdominal feeton joints 9, 10, and 13. Pale greenish yellow, with dark-brown linesal)out as wide as the intervening spaces. These are single, narrow,])roken dorsal, double subdorsal, lateral, substigmatal, subventral, andpedal lines. The pairs are approximate, filled in between with yel-lowish brown, or might be called single lines, paler centrall3\ Thepedal line is only obscurely geminate. Tubercles and setae black, theformer minute. Abdominal feet pale, brown spotted, the anal pairlined. Thoracic feet reddish.Stage IV.?Head large for the liody, round, full, scarcely bilobed;white, with geminate, brown, pale-brown filled lines as before, the cen-tral white space over the suture the widest. Abdominal feet as before,lines the same; also a single medio-ventral line. A geminate l)lackishdot in the subdorsal band in the incisure 5 to fi. The single dorsalline is nearly obsolete.Stage V.?Head rounded, full, very large, one and a half times aswide as the body, projecting well above joint 2, smooth, not bilobed;pale 3^ellowish, with man}^ brown lines reaching from the mouth to occi-put, parallel, curved, eleven on each side, obscurely in pairs; clypeuspale, as also the median suture somewhat broadly, and antenna?; width1.5 mm. Body slender; no feet on joints 7 and 8; pale yellow, finelylined with brown; three lines and a broader median one below thesubventral fold; fold yellowish, eight lines above it, namely, geminatedorsal, three subdorsal, united by a dark shade into a broad sul^dorsalband, dou})le lateral, and double superstigmatal. The substigmatalpale interval is the subventral fold, and is \'ellower than the rest. Noshields nor plates; legs brown lined. Black dots in the incisure 5 to6; tubercles obsolete; setas rather large.Stage VI.?No change. The antennie arc long, twice the length ofthe mouth. The head is large, making the larva club-shaped, joint 2widening to meet it; width 2.2 to 2.5 mm. Lines very fine, brown,crinkly, some breaking down; dorsal line fine, geminate; subdorsal offour lines filled in with an olivaceous shade, black dotted in the incis-ure 5 to 6; double lateral, single superstigmatal, single stigmatal, singlesubstigmatal lines; broad subventral of four lines filled in with brownlike the subdorsal; dark-brown medio-ventral with three lines betweenit and the subventral line, alternating reddish and brown. All on apale 3'ellow field, a little whitish in the dorsal space. Feet pale, brown 278 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxm. spotted. Spiracles black ringed. Tubercles black", luiimte; setaerather long-.Stage VII.?Head subspherical, large, a little elongate, thick, andfree from joint 2, not bilobed; clypeus low, narrowly triangular; fifthocellus close below antenna, large. Broadly white over clypeus andmedian suture, this color a little more than covering the paraclvpealpieces and reaching the antenna?, with a faint, double, reddish line inthe cl3'peus and another on the paraclvpeal suture. Sides whitish,with many mottled brown lines extending upward, parallel to eachother, to the occiput, joining the lines on the body. There are abouteighteen on each lobe, each obscurely geminate, mottled with paledots; on the inner half of each lobe the lines are washed and connectedby olivaceous. Clypeal and paraclypeal tubercles black, the othersblackish ringed. Width 3 to 3.4 mm. Body slender, uniform;abdominal feet on joints 9, 10, and 13; smooth, nearl}^ cylindrical.Yellowish white, with many brown or black geminate, mottled lines.Dorsal line red-brown, double, in a clear space of the ground color;subdorsal of six black lines with a large black patch in the incisure ofjoints 6 and 6; four lateral reddish lines; a nearly black suprastigmatalpair; a reddish stigmatal and substigmatal pair; six irregular andbroken subventral lines, black, inclosed by a dark shade, forming adark subventral band; next a reddish, then blackish, then two reddish,and finally a broader, nearly black, medio-ventral band. No shields;feet pale, marked with mottled lines. Spiracles black rimmed.Tubercles and seta? small, black; tubercle iv of joint 5 a little abovethe middle of the spiracle, on joints 6 to 10 between the middle andlower corner, on joint 11 opposite the lower edge, on joint 1'2 like-wise, but the spiracle is one line higher than on joint 11. When dis-turbed, the larva curls up in a curious shape and is quiet, the blackmarks, ordinarily concealed in the incisure, exposed. Cocoon anelliptical silky net in grass.Foodplants.?Species of grass. My larvai were fed on Cenchrus sp.Larvae from Palm Beach, Florida, from eggs ' laid 1)V a capturedfemale moth. The species seems to ])reed continuously.CHYTOLITA MORBIDALIS Guenee.The mature larva has been described by Mr. C/oquillett. ^ Hisdescription coincides with my observations, but his statements aboutthe habits are somewhat diverse. He gives as food plants certain freshleaves, whereas my larvie fed entireh^ on dead and dry oak leaves.However, after hibernation a few of them nibliled at grass and dan-delion, so that it is proba))le that they may eat fresh leaves in thespring. The two dates given?April 1-May T) and June 1-July 20 ? ^Canadian Entomologist, XII., p. 44. LIFE HISTORIES OF AMERICAN MOTHS-DYAR. 279seem to imph-^ two broods, ))iit Mr. Cocinillctt tells nic that this maymean onl}^ two larvie, representing- the dates at which they were foundand spun, respectively. If so, both may have been hibernated exam-ples, though the latter date is very late. My lai-va> pupated innnedi-ately after hibernation, early in May. The species is single broodedboth in my observations and by the dates given in Professor J. B.Smith's monograph of the Deltoids.Egg.?Hemispherical, the edges a little rounded under, smooth, shin-ing, regularly reticulate, the reticulations small and not conspicuous.Trajisparent, resem])ling water, a little yellowish, the yolk granulesdistinct and giving a somewhat opaque look. No ribs. Diameter, 0.6mm. Laid singh^ on the backs of leaves of oaks and other trees, atsome distance above the ground.Stage I.?Little colorless semiloopers. Head slighth" bilobed. col-orless, mouth brown; ocelli black; width, 0.2 mm.; ocelli, 6; 4 in asemicircle al)ove and a pair below. Setj^j colorless, simple. Bodywhitish, colorless, shining, the feet on joints 7 and 8 a little smallerthan those on 9 and 10; thoracic feet large. Setse long, rather coarse,very minutely bulbous tipped, normal, the subprimaries absent.Tubercles conic, somewhat prominent, but concolorous and obscure.Part of the hairs curve forward. No shields visible. The larvae atethe egg shells and afterwards dead leaves, refusing fresh ones. Eachspun a line web about itself. Later the tubercles appeared round,brownish black, small; head, cervical shield, and anal plate brown,slighl}" cornitied. Body colorless, transparent.Stage II.?Head about O.i mm., sordid brownish white, not shining,ocelli dark, setaj pale. Body slightly flattened, translucent, sordidwhite, joint 12 a little enlarged. Tubercles small, brown, normal.Feet of joints 7 and 8 small. Shields not cornilied, concolorous withthe body, their tubercles also brown. Feet pale. Segmental incisuresslight!}" folded. Tubercle iv below the spiracle.Stage III?Head about 0. 6 mm. , round, pale yellowish brown, dottedreticulate with dark brown. Body dark sordid yellowish brown, finelydotted reticulate with red brown, forming faintly a dorsal line andleaving spaces around the small blackish tubercles. Shields not corni-fied, feet equal, setiB pale and small.Stage lY.?Head 1 mm., pale brown, smoky, very o])scure]y flnelyreticulate. Body all leaf brown, a yellow ground tinely reticulate withdark red l)rown, uniformly and neatly, the onh^ mark a faint browndorsal line. Tul)ercles small, black, seta? inconspicuous, vi and viiwhite and coarser than the others. Another brood were similar, butrather heavil}' smoky, obscuring the markings.Stage Y.?Head about 1.4 mm., pale brown, finely dotted reticu-late, an inverted V mark above the clypeus and a vertical mark, form-ing indistinct lines. Body somewhat flattened by l)eing retracted in 280 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM.the subventral region, the shields not cornified. Marks as before.The reticulation.s on the sides indicate a waved sii])dorsaJ line. Thelarva sits among the dead leaves on the ground, sluggish, covered bya soft web.Stage VI.?Head 1..55 mm., small, rounded, pale brown, faintlyreticulate with dark red l)rown; ocelli black; seta^ short, pale, fromsmall black tubercles. Body narrow at joint 2, otherwise thick androbust, flattened ventrally, feet short, joint 18 small. Pale brown,marbled reticulate with dark red brown, an obscure and partly brokendorsal line of reticulations. Tubercles and spiracles black, tubercleiv of joints 5 to 8 below the spiracle, of 9 and 10 opposite the lowerangle, of 11 nearly in line with tubercle v, only a little al)ove it, of 12below the lower angle of the spiracle. Shields scarcely cornified, theanal plate more so than the cervical shield, both nearly unmarked andmore luteous than the bodj', but not contrasting. Setw obsolete exceptsubventrally.Stage VII.?Head l.S mm. As in the former stage exactly.Stage YIII.?Head 2.1 mm., rounded, not bilobed, pale dullocher,neatly reticulate with red brown, paler on the vertex, the clypeal sut-ures and ocelli darker. Body 3"ellow, ochraceous, reticulate with red;a dorsal red brown line not crossing the cervical shield or anal plate,diffuse, but narrow and distinct. An irregular waved lateral line,caused by the reticulations being darker brown, in an arc of whichtubercle iii is the approximate center on each segment. Tuberclesdistinct, luteous black, setaj obsolete, except subventrally. Spiraclesblack; shields and plate not cornified, colored like the body, but notdistinctly reticulate, their tubercles luteous brown. Body moderatelyrobust, a little flattened ventrally, of equal width, not tapering, ieetequal, short.Eggs from Bellport, New York, laid June 12, hatched June IT; lastlarval molt September 15, with hibernation in the last stage; pupa-tion May 1.The number of stages is probably subject to some variation. Someof the full-grown larvfe after hibernation had th(? width of head only1.8 mm., but they did not molt again, pupating in this stage.RENIA SOBRIALIS Walker.Eggs were ol)tained from moths of Renia lanmlis early in June,and moths of R. whrlalii^ emerged in August. The two so-called spe-cies are thus seen to be seasonal forms of one, as suggested by Prof.John B. Smith in his monograph of the Deltoids.^ The specimenswere from Washington, D. C, and the larvfe fed on dry leaves, lyingconcealed under them, but not forming a web, as CJiyfolita iii(/rhid(di>YAR. 2 S 1 K!is(^ Hat but rounded under,neatly reuularly reticulate, the reticulations well i-aised, irre?.-ularlYhexagonal, elongated vertically, a little clearer than the egg- itself,about alike all over; no ri))s. Color white like ground glass. Laterwith irregular brown spots, more or less in a ring. Diameter .<> mm.,height A mm.Stage I.?^Head moderate, rounded, hilolx'd, fi'e(>, iicld vertically,pale luteous brownish, ti'anslucent, the rim and the sutures darker,ocelli ]>lack; clypeus two-thirds to vertex; width .?> nmi. Cervicalshield g'ra}", darker than tii(> head; anal plate paler, gray ])efore,darker posteriori}". Body ground-glass white, tubercles noi'mal, dis-tinct, large, black. Thoracic feet and leg shields grayish. F(^et ofjoint 7 very small, those of S larger, only those of 9, 10, and 18 func-tional. Setpe dusky, distinct, moderate, equal. Shape cylindrical,moderate or rather robust, joint 12 ver}' slightly enlarged.Stage IT.?Head slightly l)ilolied, erect, vertex notched l)ehind bythe membranous triangle; smoky brown, setre pale; width a))out .35mm. Body transparent, shaded and spotted with vinous, dark,almost l)lackish from the food. Tubercles elevated, brownish; setEeshort, pale. Slightly flattened ventrally, joint 12 somewhat enlargeddorsally. Cervical shield brownish, widely bisected, obscure. Tho-racic feet dusky, abdominal ones pale, the pair of joint 7 short.Stage III.?Head pale Ijrownish, slightly vertically darker streaked,setse pale, ocelli dark; width al)oiit .45 mm. Body as l)efore, moreopaque, the vinous shading dull, forming traces of a dorsal line.Body short and rather rol)ust; tubercles l)rownish, moderate, a littleelevated; setje pale, glandular tipped.Stage IV.?Head as before; width .6 mm. Body thick, slightlyflattened ventrally, largest posteriorly, especially at joint 12, incisuresdistinct, segments subanmdate. Cervical shield ])rownish, ])isected,notched on the posterior lower corner, anal plate obscure. Whitish,washed and obscurely spotted with vinous, especially broadly on thedorsum. Food dark. Tubercles rather large, elevated, circular,brownish; setffi pale, glandular, iv l)ehind the spiracle and larger thanit, on joint 11 down in line with tubercle v. Thoracic feet smokyshaded; a1)dominal ones pale, all functional, those of joints 7 and 8only a trace smaller.Stage V.?Head rounded, erect, pale brown, mottled and cloudedwith darker; setffi coarse, short, pale brownish; width .8 mm. Bodyrobust, joint 12 scarcely enlarged, a little flattened ventralh\ Black-ish gray in appearance, Avith a series of lateral (quadrate yellowishpatches anteriorly on the central segments. Skin sordid translucent,heavily blackish shaded over the dorsum to spiracles, the yellowishpatch(>s below and l)ehind tubercle i on joints f) to 11. Subvcntermottled with dull brown, avoiding th(> tubercles. Tubercles mod- 282 PROCEEDINGS^ OF THE NATIONAL MUFiEUM. voi..xxiii. oriite, l)lackish; sctfe short, coarse, pale ])rowinsh, contrasting, i andiii bent forward, ii backward, all glandular tipped. Feet normalshort; shields concolorous. Spiracles blackish. Another was nearlyblack, distinctly flattened ventrally, joint 12 slightl}^ enlarged; headpaler, contrasting. No conspicuous marks.Stage VI.?Head round, not bilobed, but the vertical triangle dis-tinct; erect, lower than and free from joint 2; coarsel}' shagreened;pale brown with large mottled confluent patches of dark brown, sor-did; width 1.4 mm. Body flattened ventrally, robust and thick, joint12 somewhat enlarged; segments irregularly 1-annulate. Tubercleslarge, roundedly elevated but dull, not shining, nearly concolorouswith the body, black with pale circles at the base. Setse pale, club-shaped, thick, directed forward and backward. Velvety brown-black,a pale dash below and behind tubercle ii on the two posterior annu-lent or a continuous pale subdorsal band. Cervical shield with palemesial line and pale mottlings behind. Feet short, somewhat pale.Venter pale grayish. All the marks obscure. The larvas look thecolor of dead bark, nearly black, though some are lighter, brownish,and the color generally pales decidedl}^ during the stage, being darkestsoon after the molt.Pupa in a slight cocoon in dirt, shining, light brown.TEPHROCLYSTIS NEBULOSA Hulst.One of the bred specimens was named as above by the Rev. Dr.Hulst.Stage I.?Head rounded, full, not bilobed, dark brown, sutures andocelli darker; clypeus high; width 0.3 mm. Body moderate, pale yel-low, smooth; cervical shield rectangular, anal plate and anal leg shieldscornitied; segments finely annulate; tubercles and setas obscure; tuber-cles brownish, setse with enlarged clear tips, short, pale.Stage II.?Head rounded, vertex under joint 2, yellowish, l)rownshaded on the sides; width 0.4 mm. Body translucent sordid yellow-ish, a distinct brown dorsal stripe the whole length, and a shaded sub-ventral band. Thoracic feet dark; anal shields dusky; cervical shieldobscure. Set? short, glandular, pale; tul)ercles small, brown. Laterthe marks fade and the body becomes all sordid luteous with palel)rown dorsal stripe only. Shields weakly cornified, darker luteous.Stage III.?Head rounded, slightly ))ilobed, pale brownish, eyesblack; width 0. inni. Body smooth,moderate, minutely conically o-ranular, aci-M distinct, short, stiff, l)lackwith enlarged tips> Pale yellow, slightly green tinted, a narrow,brown, broken dorsal line, widening on joints 5 to 9 into arrow-shaped marks (the point anteriorly); a short su])dorbal band on thethorax, and traces of a subventral band on the anterior half. Veaterclear, su])ventral fold slightly whitish. Feet ])a]e. Other exampleshave a faint or distinct brown dorsal and subdcjrsal lines, joining thearrow-shaped,marks. On one example the marks were all large and abrow^n sul)veutral shaded l^and was present, the l)rown color predomi-nating over the yellow ground.Pupa.?In a slight web; length 6.5 mm.; dull yellowish green,somewhat translucent, the rings of the al)domen luteous, the anal seg-ment and cremaster brown; dorsal line dull green; sutures of casesfinel}^ lined in dark ]>rown. The anal segment has a low roundedprocess laterally; cremaster slender, rather long, wide and flat, with aterminal row of long hooks. The shape is normal, much as in Oldoro-chlamys chloroleucaria.Foodplant.?Flowers of golden rod (Solidago sp.) from Bellport,Long Island, New York. A bouquet of these flowers w\as found alivewith little Geometrids, consisting of the species here described, C.chlo'roleucaria., and Deptalia insxdaria.STERICTA INCRUSTALIS Hulst.One of the bred spcciiuens was named by the Rev. Dr. Hulst. Thelarva is not uncommon in Southern Florida, solitary usually, in aninconspicuous web among the leaves of its food plant. The web isloose and open, suggesting a spider's wel), l)ut the lar^a lies concealedamong the leaves. The moths have a curious habit of placing the eggsby preference in an old web of a former larva, where the leaves havenot been too closely stripped. This usually happens where the formerlarva has been parasitized. There are probably six larval stages; Ihave not determined exactly.Fgg.?Flat, like a Cochlidian, singly or as many as six, laid over-lapping like shingles. Elliptical, 1.8 by 1.2 nmi.; surface neatlyirregularly reticulate; dark ocher with a colorless i-im, the shell whiteafter the larva has emerged, Emliryo visible, as in the Cochlidians.Stage II (or I^).?In an old nest between two leaves stitchedtogether. Head luteous, sutures and a faint line hack from the ocellil)rown; width about O.-t mm. Body greenish, uniform, no shields,faintly brown lined to the subventral fold. (Incompl(>t(^ly ol)ser\ed.)Stage IV.?Resting out straight in the center of a loose open webamong the leaves. Head held out flat, flattened, clypeus rather high;face luteous, sutures brown, but on the sides of the l()l)es an^ threeblack lines with four alternatino* white ones from the mouth hack- 284 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vouxxni.ward, continiiino" the linos on the 1)ody in the noi-nial position of thohead. A whitisli vertical line parallel to the median suture; widthabout 0.8 mm. Thoracic feet large, black, pale ringed. Body slender,nearly cyclindrical; feet small normal. Segmental incisures notstrongly marked. Venttn- dull green, dorsum lined with brown-blackand white, the lines of both colors of equal width. Pale lines yellow-ish white except on the subventral fold, which is the last one andgreenish. Brown lines are dorsal, sul)dorsal (tu])ercles i and ii), lat-eral, suprastigmatal (iii), and su])stigmatal. Tubercles small, black;set^e moderate, fine. Tubercles iv and v separate but approximate,V dorsad to iv and smaller, vi normal, vii of three setre on the legbase. Two wavy l)rown suljventral lines below tubercles iv+v andacross vi, respectively. Subventer of thorax dark.Stage Y.?Head the same, but there are brown mottlings on thesides of the lobes above the l)lack bars; width 1.5 mui. Bod}^ neatlylined with 3^ellowish green and brownish l)lack, as before, but the threelateral ])rown stripes are much wider than the pale intervals, whichhave become linear. The two brown lines below the substigmatalfold are present.Stage VI.?Head rounded, the vertex under joint 2, the clypeusreaching two-thirds or more to the vertex; held out flat; lobes quitefull; pale yellow, checkered with angular spots of very pale brown,also shaded with this color over the clypeus and along the mediansuture; ocelli white, ])lack centered, surrounded by a black shade;mouth brown; antenna^ moderate; tubercles minutely brownish; width2.1 nmi. Bod}^ slender, slightly tlattened as before, lined. Dorsallythree pale ^^ellow lines alternating with two brown ones, becomingblack and white on the cervical shield; subdorsally three broad dingybrown l)ands, alternating with two ver}'^ narrow pale yellow ones;stigmatal line pale yellow, narrow, inclosing the white, black-rimmedspiracles; a yellowish line along tubercles iv+v with a faint brownone above; venter pale, nearly colorless. Tubercles small, l)lack, iand ii in line or ii slightly dorsad, iv and v separate, iv directlybelow the spiracle, v a little dorsad and anterior, vi not nuich belowiv, but well posterior, vii on the leg base of three seta^ in a triangle.Shields perfectly concolorous, the anal plate and anal feet a littleshaded with purplish. Crochets of feet in a whole circle. Later theground color is whitish on the thorax, yellowish green centrally andshaded with In-ownish posteriorly.The larva? pupate in a slight web in the sand or between leaves onthe ground. Pupa shining mahogany ])rown, thick and robust;cremaster sessile, with a tuft of long stout hooks.Food plant.?Nectaiidra vMldemwiarid ; also apparently the samelarva on Persea carolhiensia. Larva3 from Palm Beach, Florida. \