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wing-cases much smoother than usual ; cremaster hooks -two large ones 

 at the tip of segment, and several small ones from near the -base of these 

 and some at a little distance from them. Colour chestnut-brown, covered 

 as usual with a white powdery secretion. The puparium a case of 

 leaves thinly lined with silk. 



Pupal period, 20 days ; food plant, Honey Locust. 



Agrotis brocha, Morr. 



Egg. — Diameter, .03 inch, height the same : blunt conical, tapering 

 abruptly from near the base to a rounding base ; longitudinally striated, 

 30 of these reaching the tnicropyle, about 63 of these striae in all ; marked 

 with cross stride, but these not prominent ; centre of micropyle a round, 

 sh'ghtly elevated piece. Colour various ; some gray, some whitish 

 blotched irregularly with red, the blotching being mostly a spot on the 

 micropyle and a ring below. Duration of this period, 9 days. 



Young larva. — Length, .07 inch; cylindrical. Colour of body pale 

 smoky-white ; head black ; piliferous spots moderate, a white or pale 

 hair from each. Duration of this period, 7 days. 



After first moult. — Length, . 15 inch ; colour pale greenish-brown; 

 head black ; piliferous spots small, black ; a small cervical shield. In 

 confinement, ate clover and radish leaves.' 



Apatela spinigera^ Guen. 



Mature larva. — Length, 1.20 inch; when crawling, nearly cylindri- 

 cal ; with eight rows of tubercles, the lateral ones very small ; the dorsal 

 pair on joints 3 to 7 rather large, with the tallest on 3 and gradually 

 diminishing back; joint 12 prominently elevated, the elevation tipped 

 with a pair of tubercles, with a pair of small ones in the front part of the 

 elevation, each tubercle bearing a single long and several short hairs. 

 Colour bright green, the lateral tubercles scarcely discolouring the sides, 

 slightly yellowish-green ; a dorsal dark reddish-purple stripe that is nearly 

 as wide as the head on the anterior part of 2, about half as wide on 3, 

 narrow on 4 to 7, expanding in two ellipses on 8 and 9, the rest of the 

 way narrow. From 2 to back of tubercles on 3 the stripe is bordered 

 each side by clear white, coloured a little with green on 8 and 9, with a 

 faint greenish line running through the centre of the stripe. Head rosy- 

 r-d, whitish on the sides, with three more or less complete longi- 

 luilinal rows of black spots. Feet and venter green. 



Food plant, apple. Hibernated in the pupa, which was not described. 



