146 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, '13 



Mouth-cone, rather bluntly rounding, reaching three-fourths of the 

 way across the pronotum. 



Antennae with eight segments, one and two-thirds times as long as 

 the head ; segments one and two black, concolorous with the head, 

 segments three to six clear yellow, eighth and tip of seventh yellow- 

 ish-brown. 



Prothorax short, a little shorter than the width of the head, tri- 

 angular, narrow in front, well-developed spines on posterior angles 

 and two on the anterior part of each lateral margin. 



Mesothorax wider than the prothorax and very short, sides almost 

 straight. 



Pterothorax a little narrower than the abdomen, sides almost 

 straight. 



Legs long, concolorous with the body except the brown tarsi. 



Wings : Fore-wings reaching almost to the end of the abdomen, 

 fringed wth hairs which are nearly as long as the width of the abdo- 

 men, doubled for from 15 to 19 hairs, nerve weak and short, con- 

 striction rather slight. 



Abdomen usually long and slender, usually widest at the second 

 or third segment and tapering gradually to the seventh from which 

 it rounds off more abruptly. A pair of bluntly-tipped hairs along 

 the margin of each segment, becoming longer and arising from nearer 

 the posterior angle on the posterior segments. The tube is 0.14 mm. 

 long and about 0.075 mm. wide at the base. The end bears a circle 

 of stiff hairs, eight of which are about two-thirds as long as the tube, 

 six are shorter and weaker. 



Males are similar but smaller. 



Larvae: The very young are a uniform yellow in color; later they 

 are straw-colored with numerous irregularly-shaped orange pigment 

 masses, giving an orange color to the body, which is much wider in 

 proportion to the length than is the case with the adult. The legs 

 are dark brown. The antennae are at first purplish, turning to dark 

 brown and later almost black. There are two dark areas on the head 

 and two larger ones on the thorax. 



Eggs 0.35 x 0.14 mm., black in color, surface reticulated in ap- 

 pearance, due to the fact that the wall is composed of hexagonal 

 plates. They are placed in crevices in the bark of the host. 



Described from fifty adults and numerous larvae and eggs. 



Found at Satsuma, Fla., in November and December by W. 

 O. Richtman on camphor (Cinnamon camphor) seedlings. 

 They were reported as quite numerous on the twigs and doing 

 considerable damage. 



