363 



Ephyra pendulinaria Gruenee. Plate 10, fig, 72. Plate 13, figs. 14, l\a, 



14b. pupa. 



Ephyra pendulinaria Gueu. !!, Phal., i, 414, 1857. 



Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. JIus., xxii, 631, 1861. 

 deidalia quadravgulaia Walk. !!!, List L,ep. Het. Br. Mus., xxvi, 1595, 1862. 



3 $ and 3 9. — Antennae moderately pectinated in the male. Body and 

 wings white, speckled with dark gray or blackish. Head white on the 

 vertex, brown in front; palpi white; antennae white above; pectinations 

 white. Fore wings with an inner curved line of venular black spots; a 

 middle sinuous, indistinct, dusky shade half-way between the discal ringlet 

 and the outer parallel curved line of venular blackish dots; a submargihal, 

 dark, slightly-scalloped shade ; marginal row of black dots distinct on both 

 wings. Hind wings with four lines and shades, as in the anterior pair, but 

 the middle (second) shade touches the large discal ringlet. Beneath, white. 

 Fore wings slightly dusky in the middle of the wing ; the outer row of black 

 dots present, but less curved than above and situated farther from the edge 

 of the wing. Hind wings almost pure white, with a faint outer row of dots. 

 The marginal row of dots alike on both wings Legs white, dusky in front 

 on the anterior pair. 



Length of body, i, 0.36, 9, 0.36-0.38; of fore wing, <J, 0.47, 9, 0.43- 

 0.50; expanse of wings, 1.00 inch. 



Boston and Andover, Mass. (Sanborn) ; Brookline, Mass., August 6 

 (Shurtleff); Cambridge, Mass., May 25, July 26 (H. K. Morrison); Brooklyn, 

 N. Y. (Graef ) ; West Farms, N. Y. (Angus) ; New Jersey (Sachs) ; Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. (Amer. Ent. Soc.) ; Maryland (Scudder). y 



This species may at once be known by its white color and large discal 

 ringlets and the mesial shade. It is nearly related to the European E. pen- 

 dularia. Like the following species, it varies considerably in size. 



Larva. — "Light green with longitudinal white lines, and dotted with white 

 spots. A dorsal and three subdorsal lines; the dorsal straight, but the others 

 broken and irregular, the stigmata! edge wrinkled, the white spots irregu- 

 larly scattered. Body beneath with the white lines interrupted. The last 

 segment with the anal prolegs and tip of the first pair of prolegs slightly 

 reddish. Thoracic legs pale greenish, black at the tips. A few scattered hairs 

 on the body. Head faint reddish marbled with whitish, with two white 

 stripes. -Length 0.40 ; thickness 0.12 inch. It feeds on Comptonia aspleni- 

 folia in Massachusetts. 



