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Eudioptis hyalinata (Linn.), 



The Melofi Caterpillar. 



(Ord. Lepidoptera : Fam. Pyraustid^.) 



Phalcena hyalinata. Linn^us : Syst. Nat., i, pars ii, 1767, p. 874, no. 



279 (description). 

 Phalcena hyalinata. Fabricius : Ent. Syst., iii, pars ii, 1794, p. 213, 



no. 311 (habitat, America, Asia). 

 Pyralis hyalinata. Poey : Cent. Lepidopt. Cubana, 1832 (larvae, pupa, 



pi. 19, colored fig.). 

 Pyralis hyalinata. Westwood : Introduc. Class. Ins., ii, 1840, pp. 400- 



401 (characters, type of Phakellura MS.). 

 Phakellura hyalinatalis. Guen^e : Hist. Nat. Ins., Lepidopt., viii, 1854, 



p. 296 (descr., distrib., vars., food-plants). 

 Phakellura hyalinitalis. Dodge: in Field and Forest, i, 1875, p. 9 (in- 

 jurious to cucumbers in Fla.). 

 Phacellura hyalinatalis. Snow : in Trans. Kans. Acad. Sci., iv, 1875, 



p. 56 (habits same as P. nitidalis) ; in Observ. of Nature, iii, 



no. 5, 1876, p. 4 (common in Kans.). 

 Phakellura hyalinitalis. Mann: in Psyche, ii, 1878, p. 129 (reference). 

 Phakellu7'a hyalinatalis. Willet : in Rept. LT. S. Comm. Agr. for 1879, 



p. 219 (life-history). 

 Phakellura hyalinatalis. Comstock: in Rept. U. S. Comm. Agr. for 



1879, 1880, pp. 218-220, pi. iii, figs. 5, 6 (distrib., life-history, 



parasites, remedies). 

 Eudioptis hyalinata. Grote : New Check List of N. Amer. Moths, 



1882, p. 54, no. 159. 

 Phacellura hyalinitalis. Cooke : Ins. Inj. Orch.-Vin., 1883, pp. 301-302 



(general notice, life-history, remedies). 

 Eudioptis hyalinata. Saunders: in Canad. Entomol., xv, 1883, p. 56, 



fig. 3 (taken at Hamilton, Ont., larvae, pupa) ; the same in 14th 



Rept. Lnt. Soc. Ont. for 1883, pp. 23-24, fig. 4; Ins. Inj. 



Fruits, 1883, pp. 365-366, fig. 377 (distrib., habits, etc., brief). 

 Phacellura hyalinitalis. Edge: in Rept. Penn. State Bd. Agr. for 1883, 



1884, pp. 66-67 fij^- 6 o^ plate (general notice). 

 Eudioptis hyalinata. Fernald : in Kingsley's Stand. Nat. Hist., ii, 1884, 



p. 444. (brief notice). 

 Phakellura hyalinatalis. Lintner : in Country Gent., 1, 1885, p. 607; 



in do., Ii, 1886, p. 733 ; 5th Rept. Ins. N. Y., 1889, p. 320 ; in 



Country Gent., lix, 1894, p. 721 (as Eudioptis); loth Rept. Ins. 



N. Y. for 1894, 1895. p. 503 (reference as E. hyalinata). 

 Eudioptis hyalinata. Ashmead : in Bull. 14 U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., 



1887, pp 26-27 (distribution, food-plants, description of 



stages, etc.). 

 Phacellura hyalinitalis. Riley-Howard: in Ins. Life, i, 1888, p. 161 



{Pimpla conquisitor parasitic on) ; in do., ii, 1890, p. 376 {Phakel- 

 lura hyalinatalis injuring cantaloupes in So. Carolina) ; in do., iv, 



1891. ]). 157 (Eudioptis hyalinata from Jamaica). 

 Eudioptis hyalinata. Edwards: Bull. 35 U. S. Nat. Mus., 1889, p. iii 



(bibliography of transformations). 



