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Head bilobed, colorless, clypeus reaching vertex; width .75 mm. Cer 

 vical shield transverse, sordid greenish. Body greenish with broad brown 

 subdorsal stripe, partly enclosing tubercles i and iii and completely so 

 tubercle ii, but not coloring the sordid, greenish rimmed tubercles. Anal 

 plate sordid. Tubercles i to iii large, iv-j-v and vi small, pale, concol- 

 orous. Setae moderate, pale. When filled with food the larvae are sor 

 did greenish, tubercles i to iii blackish, iv-j-v and vi less distinctly so. 

 Traces of whitish edges to the subdorsal line. 



Last stage. Head broad, round, bilobed, paraclypeal pieces reaching 

 vertex ; mouth large; greenish, faintly brownish on the vertex, tubercles 

 pale but all strongly black ringed; vertex scarcely under joint 2 ; width 

 1.5 mm. Body somewhat flattened, uniform, tubercles i to iii large, on 

 joint 13 somewhat angular and prominent; iv and v small, black, con 

 tiguous, iv dorsad; vi small, vii of three setae on the leg base, the two 

 lower ones pale. Pale green, a broad blackish subdorsal band, slightly 

 broken by pale rings about the tubercles and intersegmental mottlings, 

 the pair joining posteriorly on joint 13 and anteriorly by the large, 

 blackish, scarcely bisected cervical shield. The subdorsal band nearly 

 encloses tubercles i and iii, and does not quite touch a faint white border 

 ing line above and below, the upper line crossing tubercle i, the lower 

 stigmatal. Tubercles black, setae moderate pale. Feet pale. On thorax 

 tubercles ia-f-ib, iia-|-iib, iv-f-v ; on abdomen the green dorsum is en 

 croached on by tubercles i and ii of joint 12; elsewhere i is well dorsad 

 to ii. 



Epicorsia mellinalis Hiibn. The neatly colored larva of this 

 species occurred on the " fiddle wood " ( Citharexylum mllosum). 

 I have described it elsewhere. (Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc., March, 

 1901.) 



Mecyna reversalis Guen. The pretty and striking larvae oc 

 curred on the Sophora tomentosa in both years. At first glance 

 I thought them to be Utetheisa bella. The larva has been de 

 scribed by Lintner. (nth rept. ins. N. Y., 142, 1896.) 



Head bilobed, the lobes broad, full, paraclypeal pieces reaching vertex; 

 antennae half as long as the mandibles; shining black, labrurn pale lu- 

 teous ; width 2.8 mm. Thoracic feet black, ringed with white ; abdominal 

 ones slender, green, the crochets in a circle, broadly broken outwai'dly. 

 Body rather long, uniform, cylindrical; cervical shield and anal plate jet 

 black, the former with central white line and subdorsal dash; the latter 

 with a median irregular mark, lateral margin white. Body translucent 

 sap green or dull orange green, the large tubercles white and black; i and 

 ii are black, incised by a white spot above and below; iii is similar but the 

 lower white spot includes the spiracle, and there is a white border before 

 and a lobe to include tubercle iiia; iv-|-v is in a long white streak on the 

 subventral fold which surrounds it ; vi is in the upper part of a white patch ; 

 vii black at the edge but luteous about the three setae. Thoracic tubercles 



