THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, o9 



Habitat. — San Mateo Co., (Stretch); Berkeley, Cal. (Rivers). If Prof. 

 Rivers's determination of the moth is correct, and I see no reason to 

 doubt it, then the name may have to fall as a synonym of C. erosa; for 

 the larva is so much the same that there does not seem to be anything in 

 the description to separate it by, unless the subdorsal blue band be really 

 absent. 



§2. Group americana. 



Clisiocampa americana, Harris. 



1797 — Smith & Abbot, Lep. Ins., Ga., n. 119, tab. LX. (as P 

 castrensis.) 



1 841 — Harris, Cat Ins., Mass., 72. 



1889— Hy. Edwards, Bull. 35, U. S. Nat. Mus., 77. (32 references. '< 

 decipiens, Walker. 



1855— Walk., Cat. Brit. Mus., vi., 1488. 

 frutetorum, Boisduval. 



1869 — Boisd., Ann. Ent. Soc. Belg., xii., 82. 



Larva. — Head black, pilose, a few long black hairs ; bases of antennae 

 and labrum white. Body black with a narrow white dorsal line on joints 

 3-12, fainter posteriorly and speckled with black. An orange coloured 

 subdorsal band, rather irregular and a little mottled with black. Below 

 this a subdorsal row of blue dots, two on each segment, elongate, the 

 anterior one longitudinal, the posterior transverse. Above and below 

 them is an interrupted orange-tinted line, and below this the lateral area 

 is mottled with pale blue, becoming brownish in the subventral space. 

 Hair reddish brown, most abundant subventrally. 



Food-plants. — Wild cherry and fruit trees. 



Habitat. — Florida to Canada : west to the Mississippi Valley. 



Clisiocampa constricta, Stretch. 



1874 — Hy. Edwards, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., v., 368. 



1 88 1 — Stretch, Papilio, i., 66. 

 strigosa, Stretch. 



1881 — Stretch, Papilio, i., 67. 



1892 — Dyar, Psyche, vi., 326./;-. syn. 



Lan'a.— Head powdery blue, with black mottlings ; mouth black, 

 lower part of clypeus white ; antennae white ringed. Body black, densely 



