294 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



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HYBLCEA PUERA, CRAMER. 



BY T. D. A. COCKERELL, LAS CRUCES, NEW MEXICO. 



Mr. Butler (P. Z. S.. 1892, p. 133) remarks concerning the Hyblceidce 

 {Hyblceince, I would rather write) as follows : — 



" The position of this family is somewhat doubtful ; the aspect of the 

 species forcibly reminds one of the Tortrices, but the neuration does not 

 altogether correspond with that of the Tortricidoe ; at the same time the 

 Hyblaidce. do not appear to be true Noctuites." How this may be. I can- 

 not venture to judge, but H. puera is very common in Kingston, Jamaica, 

 and as I have bred it, a description of the larva may help to decide the 

 question. 



Larva : about 19 mm. long, rather reminding one of the megacephala 

 group of Acronycta. Body cylindrical, with sparse hairs of moderate 

 length Head shining pitchy-black Body black above, with a more or 

 less interrupted red dorsal stripe ; and very narrow subdorsal white stripes, 

 much broken into spots. The black continues as far down as the spira- 

 cles, but just above the spiracles is another broken white line, like the 

 subdorsal. There is a narrow yellowish-white band along the lower mar- 

 gin of the black, and below this the body is marbled with grey and pale 

 reddish-brown, a small hair-patch below each spiracle being ringed with 

 white. Abdominal legs pale brown. Thoracic legs shining* red-brown. 

 The first 3 and the last body-segments are almost entirely black beneath. 

 Lives in curled-up leaves of Cata/pa, in which it pupates. 



Pupa bright red-brown. 



Larva and pupa found in Kingston, May 3, 1892. Three moths 

 emerged on May 10. 



Mr. J. J. Bowrey has briefly referred to the larva in Handbook of 

 Jamaica, 1881, p. 118. Moeschler, in his Porto Rico work, says the larva 

 is found on Crescentia and Tecoma. The distribution of the insect is 

 extraordinary — West Indies, Brazil, Java, Ceylon, Nepal, China, S. 

 Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, etc. 



