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crooked or wavy and mostly geminate; a round spot edged with the 

 same. Hind wings have nearly the same ground color proximally, 

 with a slightly paler transverse band, bordered distally with a rather 

 darker wide brown band ; margin pale. Expanse, about 38 mm , or 

 1.5 inches. 



The mature larva* is slender, nearly cylindrical, smooth ; prolegs 

 on segments 9, 10, 13 ; body yellowish white with many brown or 

 blackish, mottled, double lines ; dorsal line reddish brown, double ; 

 subdorsal composed of six black lines, with a black spot between the 

 5th and 6th segments ; four reddish lateral lines ; a pair of black 

 lines just above the stigmata ; a red one along the stigmata ; and a 

 pair of red ones below them ; ventral stripes darker ; spiracles with 

 black edges ; head white, lined with faint brown and reddish mark- 

 ings. It is nocturnal in habits ; when disturbed it curls itself up, 

 the body forming an abrupt angle at the 5th joint, the thoracic feet 

 touching the prolegs. Common according to Jones. Feeds on grass. 



Whole United States east of Rocky Mountains; Labrador; Cuba; 

 South America. 



Plasia ou Gn.; J. B. Smith, Catal. Noct., p. 252, 1893; Morrison, 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, p. 2 19 = P. fratella Grote, Bull. Buffalo 

 Soc. N. H., xi, p. 161. Plate xcviii, figures 7, 8. 



Fore wings lustrous yellowish brown, specked and variegated with 

 darker brown, and with a subapical patch of dark brown ; faint 

 oblique cross-bands of gray; silvery spot bilobed, bordered exter- 

 nally with dark brown. Under wings shining yellowish or golden 

 brown with a distal band of dark brown and a whitish margin. 

 Under side, of wings yellowish brown, faintly banded with darker ; 

 body tawny brown. An elegantly colored species. Expanse 32-40 mm . 



The laiwa is undescribed; food-plants are not known. f 



Range, New England to Oregon, California, Texas, Florida, etc. 



Green Geometrid Moth. (Syiichlora denticidata Walk. (?)=excur- 

 varia Packard). 



Mr. H. G. Dyar thinks that our two specimens are probably this 

 species, but they are too much injured for positive identification. 

 The body and wings are bright, light green, the fore-wings crossed 

 by two irregular, narrow, faint whitish lines. Taken in summer. 

 T. G. Gosling. Larva eats leaves and flowers of various weeds. 



* For full descriptions of all stages, see H. G. Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 xxiii, pp. 276-8, 1901. f See Addenda. 



