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large black spot on the face of each lobe just below apex and a smaller 

 one below it on lateral angle. Body smooth, robust, normal; feet equal; 

 segments coarsely annulate. Tubercle iv on joint 10 at the middle of the 

 spiracle, on n nearly in line with v, on 12 below the middle of the spiracle. 

 Dark sordid brown, sparsely dotted with white. The dots are mostly 

 segregated in an irregular addorsal line and about a broad diffuse yel 

 lowish white subdorsal band and in the position of the obsolete substig- 

 matal band Spiracles black; tubercles small, the dorsal ones white. 



On persimmon (Diospyros virginiana), feeding at night, 

 concealed on the ground by day. 



Lepipolys perscripta Guenee. 



Larvas from Mr. O. Seifert, Island Grove, Florida. 



Head rounded, oblique, not retracted; white, thickly dotted with angu 

 lar black spots and streaks. Body cylindrical, even, normal; feet equal ; 

 tubercle iv at the top of the spiracle on posterior segments (joints 8 to 

 10). Olivaceous brown, tubercles black in large round brown plates. A 

 series of conspicuous round dorsal white spots, two on each segment of 

 the abdomen, the anterior one shorter and broader than the posterior one ; 

 on thorax divided into four spots, the third spot incised by tubercle ia and 

 partly divided on the dorsal line. A large white square in place of the 

 cervical shield containing four black tubercles. Anal shield white with 

 black tubercles and dots. Stigtnatal band broad, white, occasionally in 

 cised with brown at the annulet folds, containing tubercles iii and iv and 

 the small black spiracle. Tubercles v and vi white ringed outside the 

 large brown plates. Leg shields white with two black spots. Venter 

 pale, but not white. Thoracic feet white, spotted with black tubercles. 



Feeds on Linaria canadcnsis (Seifert). 



Plusiodonta compressipalpis Guenee. 



Larvae from Mr. A. Hyatt Verrill, New Haven, Connecticut. 



Egg. Shape of two-thirds of a sphere, base flattened; pale yellow, not 

 shining, smooth, very obscurely roundedly reticulate, the reticulations 

 arranged in vertical rows with the ribs a trace more distinct; finely retic. 

 ulate at the vertex. The whole sculpturing is very faint, shadowy, resem 

 bling markings rather than definite raised work. Diameter, .6 mm. 



Stage /. Head small, rounded bilobed, cordate, pointed bluntly at the 

 mouth, erect; white, eye black, mouth brown; width, .3 mm. Body 

 cylindrical, normal, joint 12 a trace enlarged, 13 abruptly rounded ; feet 

 of joints 7 and 8 entirely absent. Translucent whitish, food green ; tuber 

 cles and setae small, black, distinct, normal, vi absent; no shields what 

 ever; feet pale like th"e body. Tubercles ia to iib of thorax separate; iii 

 and v absent. 



Stage II. Head rounded, slightly bilobed, median suture depressed, 

 obliquely erect; not shining, pale greenish yellow, eye black, mouth 

 brown ; width, .5 mm. Body slender, elongate, feet absent on joints 7 and 

 8; segments obscurely annulate. Pale greenish, green from the food> 



