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wrapped in a leaf of Erianthus alopecuroides. The imago emerged 30th 

 August 



8. EUDAMUS PROTEUS, Linn. 



Mature Larva — Length 1.5 inch; fusiform ; a fine dark dorsal line, 

 a bright yellow sub-dorsal band which is dilated on the 12th segment, and 

 a pale green line along base of body ; the dorsal space between the bands 

 gray dotted with black and yellowish arranged in transverse lines ; the 

 sides gray, with the upper half dotted with black ; collar lustrous black ; 

 anal plate yellow, greenish in middle ; under side pale green ; legs black, 

 pro-legs yellow ; head large, round, brown, pubescent, slightly depressed 

 at top ; a yellow spot on each side of the mouth narrowing upwards and 

 fading into the light brown of upper part of face. 



Chrysalis — Covered with a white powder. The larva feeds on 

 Leguminosas, on Phaseolus peirennis and Cliteria Mariana. 



(Abbot's figure of this larva agrees with the above description, but the 

 figure given in Bois. and Lee, after Abbot, has scarlet patches about head 

 and body not found in the larva, and is otherwise an incorrect as well as 

 coarse copy of Abbot.) 



ON THE EARLY STAGES OF SOME GEOMETRIDS. 



BY L. W. GOODELL, AMHERST, MASS. 



Tetrads crocallata Guen. 



Mature larva, one specimen — Head brown, much narrower than the 

 body ; two large dark brown spots in front. Body stout and very slightly 

 attenuated anteriorly, the 1st and 2nd rings much narrower than the rest 

 and retractile into the 3rd. About a dozen minute black tubercles on 

 each ring. Reddish brown covered with numerous, wavy hair lines ; paler 

 beneath with a large dirty brown patch enclosing two light brown spots on 

 the 6th and 7th rings. Length when at rest 23 mil. ; when crawling 28 

 mil. Feeds on the Chestnut. Became a pupa July 15th, within leaves 

 drawn together with a few threads. 



Pupa — Length 17 mil. ; ashen gray, tinged with reddish and speckled 

 with brown ; a brown dorsal stripe, obsolete on the abdominal segments. 



