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back to near the posterior part of joint five, tapering from five to the end, 

 cremaster with two long hooks, two more about half as long from the tip, 

 and several as long as the longer ones arising farther back on the last joint. 

 Anterior part rounded, abdominal joints punctured, other parts wrinkled. 

 Brown, covered with a white powder, as in common with other species. 



In pupating, leaves were fastened together with silk, the interior lined 

 with a thin lining of silk to which the hooks of the cremaster were 

 fastened. The food plant is honey locust. I have several times found 

 the larvje on low bushes of this tree. 



In many respects this species is peculiar. In habits, it is one of the 

 earliest, hatching the fore part of June in this latitude, after a pupal period 

 of three weeks. I never found but one imago in the day-time and that 

 was scared up from some raspberry bushes. I am of the opinion that it 

 does not stay on trees in the day-time, as do most species, but hides 

 among low bushes. I have not found the larva by whipping the limbs of 

 trees, but on low bushes, and usually in such cases down in the grass, but 

 on the stem of the food plant. 



It is the only species I know that is striped transversely in the larval 

 state; in fact, there is nothing in the markings of the larva that would lead 

 one to suspect that it belonged to this genus. It is one of three species 

 of which we have descriptions that has no lateral fringe. Obscura and 

 In7iubens being the other two. There are a few brief descriptions that 

 are so imperfect that we cannot tell whether the larvae were fringed along 

 the sides or not. 



The species in this country whose larvae have lateral fringes are 

 Desperata, Retecta, Relicta, Afuatrix, Cara, Conciimbens, Uttijuga, 

 Sfretchii, Parta, U/irotiia, Ilia, Falceogama, Polygama, Cratcegi and 

 Minuta. To this we may add the European species Fraxini and Ntipta. 

 This makes fifteen of our iYmerican species that are known to have fringe 

 along the sides of the larvie, and three that are known not to have. One 

 feature about it is that according to our systems of classification the un- 

 fringed are mixed with the fringed. \Vhile this shows us that we do not 

 know all about the affinities of the genus yet, still we know too little ot 

 the early stages to enable us to use it for classification. Some one. has 

 said we should place Illecta near Conaimbens on account of similarity of 

 markings, notwithstanding the dissimilarity of colour of hind wings. The 

 above shows that the larvfe are as dissimilar as those of any species now 

 known. At present it is well enough to let the lists be as they are. 



