66 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The larva from the beginning is very quiet in its habits, never leaving 

 a stem of the food plant so long as a leaf remains. In eating it always 

 hangs from the mid-rib of the leaf below (or, when small, from one of the 

 minor ribs), and eats usually from the extreme end, finishing a section 

 across the leaf as it goes. It generally eats midrib and petiole down to 

 the woody stem. It is easily reared and will endure almost any hardship. 

 Like others of our Sphingidie, it is but partially double-brooded on Long 

 Island. 



NOTES ON THE EARLY STAGES OF SOME MOTHS. 



BY L. W. GOODELL, AMHERST, MASS. 



Euloncha oblinita Grote. 



Larva, one specimen — Body black ; a broad coral-red band on the 

 back of each ring and a row of bright yellow blotches on the sides. The 

 black ground color is variegated with white on the sides. On each ring 

 are ten small warts, each of which bears about eight short, stiff, spreading 

 brown spines, which sting severely when touched. Head roundish, coral- 

 red, with two brown spots on the crown. Length when full grown, 1.4 

 inches. Feed on the smooth alder ( A/mis serrulata). Changed to a 

 pupa within a tough cocoon attached firmly to a twig. Imago June 6. 



I am indebted to Prof. A. R. Grote for the identification of this 

 species, and to Dr. A. S. Packard, jr., for the following Geometrids : 



Eumacaria brunnearia Pack. 



Larva, eight specimens — Body smooth, stout and uniform ; black with 

 a large, indistinct, grayish blotch on each side of the five middle seg- 

 ments. Head black, as wide as the body, not bifid. Length when full 

 grown, 0.6 to 0.7 of an inch. Feeds on the apple tree. Pupated Aug. 

 30th to Sept. 15th. 



Pupa — Length 0.33 to 0.42 inch ; dark brown ; subterranean. Imago 

 early in June. 



