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seise are now large warts as in the mature larva, the upper two with a 

 bunch of stiff spines with black tips, the third with hairs fine, white, spinu- 

 lose. Head pale. 



Stage III. Head retracted, pale, eye black, mouth brown. Cervical 

 shield large, covering most of joint 2. Body squarish, thick, all pale yel 

 lowish. Hair short, bristly, blackish tipped in wart i -\- ii, softer subven- 

 trally; some long hairs extending over the head. With growth all the 

 warts become light vinous red except those on joint 7, which are con- 

 colorous, and on joint 9 where only the upper wart is red. 



Stage IV. Yellowish, cervical shield and three upper warts purple brown 

 except the warts on joint 7 and the second and third on 9. which are pale 

 vinous. Hair very short, stiff, but on joints 3 and 13 are some long ones. 

 Feet short. Lateral and subventral regions less yellow than the dorsum. 



Stage V. Yellow to the lateral warts, the incisures greenish. Four 

 rows of warts and shield black with short stiff hairs, a few long white ones 

 from the ends. 



Stage VI. No change. I am not absolutely certain whether there are 

 five or six stages Spiracle on joint 5 moved upward. A small area 

 around the spiracles on joints 6 and n, incising the third wart of those 

 segments, is white and eversible. Head strongly retracted. Hairs pointed, 

 subspicular or nearly smooth with clear bulbs at the extreme base. Skin 

 with fine, clear granules, not quite contiguous. Segments pigmented with 

 yellow centrally, transparent in the incisures. Cervical shield and four 

 rows of warts black. Five warts on joints 3 and 4. 



Described from larvae from Bell port, New York. 



Harrisina texana Stretch. 



I have referred this as a synonym of americana, but, perhaps, 

 wrongly. Stretched separated his species on the presence of 

 another vein (vein 8) in the fore wings. Such specimens are 

 taken not only in Texas, but in New Jersey and New York, along 

 with americana, and I thought it to be a case of variation. How 

 ever, there are two different forms of larva in our region. Mr. 

 Doll tells me that the moths from them are kt just alike," but they 

 may differ in venation. The following is a description of the 

 different larva. It occurs on woodbine : 



Larva : Head retracted and concealed within joint 2. Body flattened, 

 sides nearly perpendicular, with a distinct substigmatal ridge. Four rows 

 of low flattened areas, representing warts, granular, and bearing numer 

 ous radiating short, fine bristles, and a few longer white hairs from the 

 extremities. First wart subdorsal, second lateral, third substigmatal, and 

 fourth obscure above the bases of the legs. The dorsum of joints 3 to 13 

 is broadly bright yellow, banded between each joint with blackish, and 

 again across the middle of each, including the warts, with purple brown. 

 The bands all join a broad, lateral, purple brown band which runs the 

 whole length, covers the subventral warts on joints 2 and 3 and the whole 

 subventral region on 4 and 5. Substigmatal ridge on joints 6 to 13 white, 



