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three, however, pupated, the imagines appearing the second 

 week in July. To our surprise the specimens (2 males and 

 i female), instead of resembling the parent furciferata, were 

 typical representatives of what is at present listed as a good 

 species under the name of Sabulodes snlphurata Pack. It is 

 evident that under these two names we have but the spring 

 and the summer forms of a single species. 



S. snlphurata was described in 1873 (Fifth Rep. Peab. Ac. 

 Sci., p. 79), S. furciferata in 1876 (Mon. Geom., p. 559) ; the 

 reference given in Dyar's list (Fifth Kept. Peab. Ac. Sci., p. 

 68, 1873) is erroneous and refers to Goniacidalia furciferata 

 Pack., an entirely different species. The synonymy will there- 

 fore stand : 



Sabulodes sulphurata Pack. 



(a) form. vern. furciferata Pack. 



It would be interesting to breed ova obtained from sulphurata 

 and observe whether the resulting imagines are typical furci- 

 ferata; the species probably hibernates in the pupal stage, in 

 contradistinction to 5. transversata Dru., which hibernates as 

 ovum. We present figures of the parent furciferata and a pair 

 of its progeny, in which latter the striking yellow color is un- 

 fortunately not evident. Following are our notes on the larval 

 stages, which, although incomplete, will perhaps prove of some 

 slight value, as we believe nothing of the life history of this 

 species has yet been published. 



Egg. Very similar to that of 5". transversata; when first laid green, 

 turning shortly deep red and finally, before emergence, black. 



Larva, ist Stage. Head, flat and broad, pale red ; body pale green- 

 ish with a very broad black-brown dorsal band ; ventrally dark brown ; 

 legs and prolegs pale ; tubercles pale with short setae. Length 4 mm. 



2nd Stage. Head small, flat, pale brown; body greenish white, cyl- 

 indrical, with prominent lateral fold ; a broad dorsal rosy-brown band, 

 showing traces, principally anteriorly, of two pale subdorsal lines ; ven- 

 trally brown; claspers broadly fan-shaped, whitish; tubercles very min- 

 ute, dark brown. Length 12 mm. 



yd Stage. Head flat, pale brown, mottled with darker ; body, 

 smooth, cylindrical; dorsum dark purple-brown shading laterally into 

 pale greenish ; traces of a geminate pale dorsal stripe on anterior and 

 posterior segments ; fairly distinct slightly wavy subdorsal line, and 



