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THE LIFE HISTORY OF AN ORIENTAL SPECIES OF 

 COCHLIDIIDvE INTRODUCED INTO MASSACHUSETTS 

 (CNIDOCAMPA FLAVESCENS WALKER). 



[Lepidoptera, Cochlidiidse.] 

 BY HARRISON G. DYAR. 



(Plate XIV.) 



CNIDOCAMPA FLAVESCENS Walker. 

 BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



Monema fiavesccns Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus., \, 1112, 1855. 

 Monema flavescens Butler, 111. Typ. Lep. Het. Brit Mus., n, 14, pi. 25, 



f. 5, 1878. 



Monema flavescens Pryer, Trans. Asiat. Soc. Japan, xn, 41, 1884. 

 Monema flavescens Fixsen, Romanoff Memoirs, m, 342, 1887. 

 Monema flavescens Leech, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 610, 1888. 

 Miresa flavescens Graeser, Berlin, ent. Zeit, xxxn, 121, 1888. 

 Miresa flavescens Staudinger, Romanoff Memoirs, vi, 300, 1892. 

 Monema flavescens de Joannis, Bull. Ent. Soc. France, 147, 1896. 

 Monema {Miresa} flavescens Gribodo, Bull. Ent. Soc. France, 179, 



1896. 



Monema flavescens du Buysson, Ann. Ent. Soc. France, LXVII, 80, 1898. 

 Monema flavescens Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 103, 1899. 

 Monema flavescens du Buysson, Bull. Ent. Soc. France, 29, 1901. 



Kraepelin, Mitth. a. d. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, xviu, 

 196, 1901. 



Monema flavescens nigricans de Joannis, Bull. Ent. Soc. France, 251, 



1901. 



Cnidocampa flavescens Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvui, 952, 1905. 

 Cnidocampa flavescens Fernald, Bull 114, Hatch Exp. Station, Mass. 



Agr. Coll., 1907. 



Cnidocampa flavescens Fernald & Summers, Ent. News, xvm, 321, 1907. 

 Cnidocampa flavescens Dickerson, Ent. News, xviii, 373, 1907. 



- Joutel, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., xv, 175, 1907. 



SPECIAL STRUCTURAL CHARACTERS. 



Dorsal and lateral spaces broad, subventral space narrow, contracted. 

 Ridges very slight, the subdorsal ridge indicated by the change in 

 direction in the slope of the body, which is rounded gradually ; lateral ' 

 and subventral ridges more distinct, approximate. Outline from above 

 somewhat dumb-bell shaped, the central area being a little constricted 

 and the ends from which the long horns arise enlarged. The effect is 

 heightened by the coloration, the purple band being enlarged over the 

 extremities. Warts produced into fleshy prominences, unequally 



