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A. E. Verrill — The Bermuda Islands. 



Gypsochroa sitellata (Gn.) = Philerei/ie albosignata Pack.; Jones.* 

 Plate xcviii, figure 9. 



Both pairs of wings elaborately variegated and mottled with dark 

 brown and pale buff or brownish yellow; costal margin of fore wings 

 with alternate irregular spots of the two colors ; an indistinct band 

 of the lighter color; a narrow, distal, marginal line of alternating 

 blackish brown and white spots ; bodj^ colored like the wings. 

 Expanse 'iO mm , or 1.25 inches. The larva, which feeds on Pisonia 

 aculeata (t. Dyar), in Florida, is green mottled with irregular lines 

 and spots of darker yellowish green and specked with blackish. 



Melon-moth ; Melon-worm. (Diaphana hyalinata Li.=Margaronia 

 hyalinata = Eudioptis hyalinata in Geddes.)f Figure 136. 



This moth is a beautiful insect, with shining white wings, bor- 

 dered with black ; the abdomen is tufted at tip with buff, edged 

 with black and white. The young larvae eat the leaves of melons, 

 squashes, and cucumbers; older ones burrow in the stalks and fruit. 



136 



Figure 136. — Melon-moth; n, imago, nat. size ; b. larva. Figure 137. — Cucum- 

 ber-moth; Piekle-worm (Diaphana nitidalis); a, imago, nat. size; b, larva 

 and its burrow in a young cucumber. Both from Webster's International 

 Dictionary ; after Saunders. 



Mature larvae are translucent yellowish green, with scattered hairs; 

 length, 30 mm . It is often very injurious in the southern United 

 States. Recorded by Jones in 1S76 as abundant. Oct., L. Mowbray. 

 PicMe-worm or Cucumber-moth (Diaphana nitidalis=Marga- 

 r-'uiiii, or Eudioptis, nitidalis (Cram.), fig. 137, whose larva bores in 



* Mr. H. G. Dyar has given me the following synonymy: Gypsochroa sitellata 

 Gn.)—hcesitatd Gn.; Dyar, Psyche, ix, p. 59, 1900 (life history) =impauperata 

 Walk. =Philereme albosignata Pack.; Jones, 1876. 



\ Mr. H. G. Dyar gives me the following additional names for this species ; 

 Botys lucernalis Hubn.; Jones; nKinjiinilis Stoll.; lii/alinnta/i.s Guen. 



