1()4 PROC. EXT. SOC. WASH., VOL. XI, 1909. 



DESCRIPTION OF AN UNIDENTIFIED NOTODONTIAN 



LARVA. 



[Lepidoptrra. Xotodontidre.] 

 Bv HAKUISON G. ])V,\R. 



The following-described larva is supposed to be that of 

 Schizitra apicalis Grote and Robinson, but the adults were not 

 bred. They were found feeding on the leaves of the low-bush 

 blueberry in an open field at Lincolnville, Maine, August 15. 

 1908, being at that time fully grown. 



Liiri'it. Head elliptical, much higher than wide, scarcely exceeding 

 joint 2. hut separated by an incisure ; flattened before. Clypeus less 

 than half as high as the head, triangular. Smooth, shagreened, green, 

 broadly whitish purple over the face above. The purple is mottled 

 with green towards the median suture and there is a little patch of 

 purple mottling on the side, above ancl belvnd the ocelli. Width, 2.5 

 mm. Body robust, compressed, sloping up from jont 2 to joint 5 

 slightly, joints 5 and 12 slightly humped, their tubercles / forming 

 high, shining brown cones, approximated dorsally ; all the other 

 tubercles minute, except those on joint 2, which are perceptible, but 

 concolorous and not elevated. Setae rather long, black. Anal feet 

 elevated, divergent, rather long. Green mottled with whitish, which 

 forms a tessellated pattern on the dorsum of joints 6 to 12. A narrow 

 whitish-purple band dorsally on joints 2 to 5 ; joint 5 all purple except 

 brokenly posteriorly dorsally ; a white straight lateral stripe along 

 tubercles Hi on joints 5 to 12, below which oblique purple shades to 

 the feet cover most of the subventral space; a small dorsal purple patch 

 en joint 11 joins joint 12, which is more or less completely purple 

 shaded to the feet, joining the subventral purple area; the purple ex- 

 tends in a dorsal band onto joint 12: the anal feet are darker purple. 

 Small purple patches at bases of the thoracic feet, which are pale. 

 The green color is mottled with white and dotted with purplish. 

 In one specimen there was considerable dorsal purple shading on 

 joint 6. The purple is darker around the spiracle of joint 5. There is 

 a faint green dorsal line, denned by the white mottlings, which are 

 also cut obliquely by green subdorsally. Tubercle ;;' of joint 5 is 

 whitish. 



The larv.'e entered earth and spun thin cocoons. They pu- 

 pated in the fall, but died over winter. 



Actual dale, of issue, August 31, 1909. 



