THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 23-5 



The larva of Claudia is really a beautiful object, surpassing in this 

 respect any butterfly larva known to me. The chrysalis is of lovely 

 shape and color, the pearly surface giving all the colors of the rainbow, 

 while the tubercles are golden and the spots tirown with here and there 

 orange. I am sorry, therefore, that Boisduval and LeConte, after Abbot, 

 give wretched figures of such admirable objects. The larva, especially, 

 looks like a daub from a penny toy book. 



ON THE EARLY STAGES OF FOUR GEOMETRID MOTHS. 



BY L. W. GOODELL, AMHERST, MASS. 

 OCHYRIA DESIGNATA, Pack. 



Mature larva, five specimens. — Head roundish, flattened, as wide as 

 the first segment, yellowish green ; jaws brown. Body thickest at the 9th 

 segment, attenuated anteriorly ; yellowish green, the dorsal and subdorsal 

 spaces reticulated and lined with brown ; a narrow stigmatal brown line 

 and a dorsal row of triangular brown spots, one each on the 4th, 

 9th and 10th segments, and two on each of the intermediate ones ; a 

 minute substigmatal black spot on the anterior part of each segment from 

 the 6th to 9th. Length when at rest 16 mil.; when crawling 18 mil. Found 

 in October on Alyssum maritimum. Pupated within a slight web on or 

 just beneath the surface of the ground. 



Pupa. — Length 3 to 9 mil., very dark shining brown, almost black, the 

 spaces between the abdominal segments much lighter ; caudal spine round 

 and forked. 



Eucrostis chloroleucaria, Pack. 



Mature larva, 44 specimens. — Head small, about half as wide as the 

 first segment, subquadrate, deeply bifid, deep green with a light brown 

 band. Body thickest behind, much attenuated anteriorly. The general 

 color varies from yellowish to bluish and dark green, partaking somewhat 

 of the color of the flowers on which they feed. There is a straight, dor- 

 sal reddish brown stripe which is very conspicuous on some specimens 

 and much broken or entirely wanting on others. Two very small, dorsal 



