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lobe; width, 2.8 mm. Body somewhat flattened, the venter flat, sub- 

 stigmatal ridge distinct and the body above slightly triangularly shaped 

 in section, or at least appearing so. A pair of low, polished, conical, 

 rudimentary horns on joint 2 anteriorly; anal feet very minute, not used, 

 the rim of subventral ridge running smoothly around. Soft green ; a 

 distinct white line on substigmatal ridge, faintly yellow on joints 2 to 4. 

 distinctly so on joints n to 13 and round the anal rim, horn stubs purple 

 brown, the area between them mottled in white and purple, a white edge 

 behind; a yellow dorsal line from the horns over joints 2 to 5 expands on 

 joints 6 to 10 into a patch of creamy white mottled with pinkish and 

 purple, which may be narrow or broad, light or dark, and is expanded in 

 the center of the segments. In the narrow form it stops at the end ot 

 joint 10 and is continued by the shadow of a pale dorsal line; in the 

 broad form a diminishing dark purple stripe runs to the anal plate. On 

 the thorax subdorsal and lateral fine faint yellow lines, which become 

 broken into obliques on the abdomen, running from subdorsal anterior on 

 one segment backwards to stigmatal posterior on the next; the last, on 

 joints 11-12, is rather the heaviest and is followed by a weak subdorsal 

 line oh joints 12-13, not oblique. The surface is finely peppered in purple 

 and white, the oblique lines being without these dots. Spiracles ocherous, 

 feet reddish ; abdominal feet of joints 7 to 10 heavily mottled in purple 

 and white over their bases and, in the dark specimen, up to the substig 

 matal line covering joints 6 to n. 



Cocoon slight, like thin parchment, spun among leaves at the 

 surface of the ground. 



Dr. Dyar mentioned another result of Mr. Schwarz's brief 

 stop at Key West, namely, the determination of the food plant 

 of Mieza igninix Walker. These larvae were found on the 

 Bumelia august if oli a with the Litodonta larva, and a moth 

 has just emerged. According to Dr. Dyar this is undoubtedly 

 the same plant on which Mrs. Slosson originally found the 

 species, but it was unidentified then and has remained so till 

 now.* It might be well, he said, to note that the figure of 

 Abbot identified by Packard t *s>-Eustixia pupttla Hiibn., really 

 represents this Mieza. 



The following paper, by Mr. Caudell, was then read by the 

 Secretary : 



*Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., iv. p. 86 ? 1896. 

 t Amer. Nat , iv, p. 229, 1870. 



