84 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



purple at the base, the space between them whitish. From these runs 

 backward a bright brownish purple line, not very dark, at first about one- 

 sixteenth of an inch wide. This expands, reaching the sub-dorsum in the 

 posterior part of joint 4, dividing in the middle in joint 3. The lines run 

 along the subdorsal region to the posterior part of joint 6, when they unite 

 and cover the whole of the dorsal part of joint 7 and all but a little of the 

 posterior part of joint 8, when it again separates and runs as two lines to 

 the posterior part of joint 9. The space on the back of joints 3, 4, 5 and 

 6 between the purple lines is filled with orange. On joint 4 a spur is 

 given off from the purple line to the third thoracic leg, another runs from 

 joint 6 to the first pro-leg, another short spur on joint 9 ; both of the last 

 with oblique lines of lighter shade. On joint 9 the orange is outside the 

 purple, extending down the lateral spurs. Joint 10 has no purple nor 

 orange except a little below the stigmata, but it has faint yellow subdorsal 

 lines. Joint n has purple subdorsal lines which unite on the anterior 

 part of joint 12, continuing backward as a broad dorsal line, darkest on 

 the anal plate. The space on joint n between the subdorsals is filled 

 with orange. Feet and legs purple, but the rest of the under side green ; 

 under the glass the above described brownish purple lines are not uniform, 

 but mottled with irregular lighter lines. 



The single larva from which the above description was taken was 

 found June 30th on the body of a white oak tree. During the few days 

 before it pupated I fed it on the leaves of Quercus alba and Q. cocciuea, 

 both of which it ate readily. July 6th it entered the dirt of the cage to 

 transform, and produced the imago August 6th. 



NORTH AMERICAN NOCTUID^ IN THE ZUTRAEGE. 



FIRST HUNDRED. 



BY A. R. GROTE, 



Director of the Museum, Buffalo Society Natural Sciences. 



Schinia gracilejita, 8, fig. 5-6. 



" Georgia." I have identified this species among Belfrage's Texan 

 collections. 



