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Diastictis abbreviata Walk. (Floridata Hulst), at light. 



Mecoceras nitocris Cram. Larvae on Coccoloba floridana 

 (see Psyche IX, 69, 1900). 



Nepheloleuca politia Cram. Taken at light, the larva not 

 found. 



Phrygionis argentata Dru. Dr. Hulst named the moth as P. 

 argentistriata Streck., but I do not think that it differs from 

 the Antillean form. If I am correct the following synoymy will 

 obtain : 



1773. Geometer argentata Drury, 111. ex. ent, ii, 27, pi. xiv, f. 2. 



1791. Phalcena Geometer politata Stoll. Suppl. Cramer's Pap. exot., pi. 

 xxxi, f. 4. * 



1793. Pkalcena decorata Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii (2) 173. 



1857. Byssodes privignaria Guenee Spec. gen. Lep., ix, 601. 



1876. Phrygionis argentistriata Strecker, Proc. acad. nat. sci , Phil., 

 152. 



1882. Byssodes cerussata Grote, Papilio, ii, 101. 



1882. Byssodes obrussata Grote, Can. ent. xiv, in, xv, 6. 



1886. Phrygionis argentistriata Hulst, Ent. amer., ii 222. 



1890. Eulepidotiis argentata Moschler, Abhl. Senck. Ges. xiv, 246. 



1892. Byssodes privignaria Druce, Biol. Cent.-Am. Lep. Het , ii, 98. 



1896. Phrygionis argenteostriata Hulst, Trans. Am. ent. soc., xxiii, 

 384. 



The larva occurred on the young leaves of Ardisia picker- 

 ingia, and the last three stages were observed. 



Stage III. Head whitish with a straight brown stripe up the middle to 

 vertex and one on each side across ocelli to lower angle of cheeks, the three 

 meeting on the mouth; width .7 mm. Body rather thick, tapering a little 

 at the ends, smooth, cylindrical, feet normal, incisures rather well marked ; 

 very obscure annulets. Whitish, food green, a brown, diffuse, dorsal and 

 substigmatal stripe, joining those of the head, reaching the ends. Feet 

 short, pale. Dorsal stripe darker spotted in the incisures. Setae very 

 fine and short, dark ; tubercles obsolete. 



Stage IV. Head whitish, faintly testaceous tinted, lateral stripe and 

 attennae red brown, vertical stripe absent on clypeus, bordering the me 

 dian suture, paler red ; jaws reddish; width i.i mm. Body translucent 

 sordid bluish green from the food, joints j and 10 to 13 paler, whitish; a 

 row of dorsal round black spots on the segments anteriorly, almost in the 

 incisures of joints 6 to 9, represented by a round reddish shade on the 

 thorax and joints 10 to 13. Subventral stripe broad, brownish red, dif 

 fuse, reaching from joint 2 to the anal foot on which it runs narrowly. 

 Venter unspotted; skin smooth. 



Stage V. Head round, slightly bilobed, clypeus less than half to ver 

 tex; yellowish green, mottled around the median suture with reddish; a 

 dark red band from base of jaws over the black ocelli to occiput; width 



