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several waved lateral lines ; ventrally brownish, crossed by several wavy 

 longitudinal lines. Length 18 mm. Breadth 1.5 mm. 



4th Stage* Head flat, light or dark brown, strongly marbled with 

 darker; palpi prominent; in a resting position head and prothorax 

 incline dorsally upwards to mesothorax, which is considerably humped 

 and contains two lateral protuberances. Body, cylindrical, smooth, tap- 

 ering, dorsally dark purplish-brown, marbled, shading into light brown 

 laterally; traces of dark dorsal line, much broken; indistinct light 

 wavy subdorsal line and several similar lateral lines; tubercles small, 

 black; dorsal tubercles on 4th and 5th abdominal segments larger, 

 tipped with white ; ventrally pale ochreous to reddish brown with 

 broken dark medio-ventral line and several light wavy lines ; prolegs 

 more or less shaded with creamy. Length 27 mm. 



5th Stage. Head and prothorax very flat, mesothorax rising more 

 or less abruptly above same and with two large lateral protuberances ; 

 remainder of body cylindrical. Head pale to dark ochreous, slightly 

 marbled, with fairly prominent wart at apex of clypeus ; prothorax 

 light brown ; remainder of body dark gray brown to red-brown, shaded 

 and marbled with lighter; mesothoracic hump often tinged with white 

 anteriorly; traces of a black dorsal line only distinct on thoracic seg- 

 ments; this line is bordered with light ochre, the color showing prom- 

 inently on the abdominal segments where the black is lacking; several 

 irregular wavy lateral longitudinal lines of a light ochre color, edged 

 with black, all indistinct. Tubercles black, very small, except II on 

 4th and 5th abdominal segments which is larger, conical, and often 

 marked basally with white; ventrally gray-brown, mottled and lined 

 with darker, anterior half usually lighter than posterior portion; le-s 

 and prolegs of body color, often tinged basally and inwardly with 

 whitish. Length 32 mm. 



A New Cossid (Lepid.). 



By WM. BARNES, M.D., and J. McDuNNOUGH, Ph.D., 



Decatur, 111. 



(Plate VI, figs, n, u ) 



Givira cleopatra n. sp. 



$ . .Front, collar, and thorax composed of mixed black and white 

 scales, giving a general grizzled gray appearance; abdomen similar, 

 with slightly more white scales and a bifurcate anal tuft. 



Primaries white, thickly sprinkled with gray, which predominates in 

 apical portion beyond cell and around the anal angle; white color con- 

 fined to a large patch in the cell, a patch extending between cubital and 

 second anal veins from base of wing to shortly before vein Cu2, and 



