THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 4^ 



This butterfly is subject to the attack of several parasites ; one a tiny 

 dark four-winged fly, infests the eggs ; another four-winged fly of a larger 

 size, and a still larger two-winged fly attack the insect in its caterpillar 

 state. 



MICRO - LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY V. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KENTUCKY. 

 Continued from Page 11, vol vi. 



Errata. — Ante v. 5, p. 229, for Lariaia read Laverna. 



DRYOPE, geiU 710V. 



Primaries lanceolate ; the costa enters the margin about the middle 

 discal cell narrow and closed by a nearly straight discal nervure. The 

 subcostal sends off" a long curved branch from about its middle, and 

 which attains the margin behind the end of the cell. From the end of 

 the cell the subcostal bends somewhat obliquely upwards to the costal 

 margin. The median is furcate from the end of the cell, both branches 

 being short and bending somewhat suddenly downwards to the dorsal 

 margin, the inner branch being straight and continuous with the discal 

 vein. The discal vein emits five branches, the superior going to the 

 costal margin, the next furcate before the tip with one of the branches to 

 each margin ; the three others go to the dorsal margin. 



Secondaries narrowly lanceolate, costal vein short, subcostal very 

 long, simple, attaining the costal margin near the tip ; cell unclosed ; 

 median vein with three nearly equidistant branches. No discal vein but 

 an independent branch which arises near the median and attains the 

 dorsal margin before the apex. 



Head smooth ; vertex short and broad ; forehead obtusely rounded j 

 face smooth, narrow and much retreating ; tongue long, clothed at the 

 base. No maxillary palpi ; labial palpi short, porrected, densely scaled^ 

 almost tufted beneath ; no ocelli ; eyes large, but partly concealed by 

 some long scales pendant from the swollen basal joint of the antennae, 

 which are about two thirds as long as the primaries, with the joints- 

 closely set and microscopically pubescent. 



