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Scbizura badia (Packanl). 

 (PI. IV, lig. 23.) 



(Edemasin fiarFm Pack., Proc. Eiit. Soc. Phil., iii, p. 361, 1864. 



Heterncampa s'ujuificata Walk., Cat. Lep. Hot. Br. Mus., xxxii, p. 421, 186.5 (fiiU Giote aud Rob.) 

 CEdemasia iadia Grote, New Check List N. Aiiier. Moths, p. 1!), 1>'82. 

 •Smitb, List Lep. P,or. Amer., p. 20, 1891. 

 Kiiby, Sj-n. Cat. Lep. Het., i. p. 567, 1892. 

 Scki:ura niiida Neiim. and Dyar, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., xxi, p. 204, June, 1894; Journ. X. Y. Ent. Soc, ii, 

 p. 117, Sept., 1894. 



Larva. 



(PI. XXVII, figs. 1, 1«, l/(, 2, 2a-2<f.) 



Dyar (ex. Thaxter), Psyche, vi, p. 177. Nov.. 1891; Pi-oc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xxvi, p. 395, 1894. (Egg and 

 stages I-V.) 



Moth. — Three S . Head above and protUorax reddish brown. I'alpi aud patagia beliind, 

 blackish. Foie wings dark reddish with ashen aud dark brown scales. Base of the wing reddish 

 brown ; in tlie discal space before the linear black discal mark a cinereous area, but this region is 

 discolored with dark brown and continued to the outer edge as two blackisli lines, one being the 

 tifth subcostal venule, the scales over which spread out toward the apex. Outer margin with 

 black and whitish streaks on the venules and in the interspaces. Apex white. 



Hind wings whitish, becoming smoky toward the outer edge, especially on the venules. 

 Beneath, smoky cinereous. On the outer edge of the fore wings is a row of small black dots; ends 

 of the venules black. 



Expanse of wings, S 30 mm.; length of body, S 13 mm. 



In a well-preserved specimen collected by C. A. Shurtlefif at Brookline, Mass. (Coll. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist.), the patagia are much darker than the rest of the thorax; the middle yellowish 

 ashen region is bordered on each side by zigzag lines; on the anterior half it is frosted over with 

 fine whitish scales. The costal third of the wing is white. The dots of the marginal row are each 

 succeeded within by white streaks. Abdomen pale cinereous, darker than the hind wings ; the 

 tip is not so distinctly divided as in conciniKi. ScJiizwra badia may be easily distinguished by its 

 deep reddish brown color, dark patagia, and light bind wings, and by the linear discal spot turning 

 at a high angle outward, and by the reddish shade, or two reddish-brown lines, in the middle 

 beyond. There are also distinct scalloped reddish brown lines at the base and beyond the discal 

 spot. The thorax is also darker red. 



Larva. — "I have found this larva on Vihunmm lentago, and it is certainly not an (JSdemasia. 

 It is without the red hump and black tubercles of OS. concinna, the body being smooth, with dorsal 

 processes on the first, fourth, fifth, (?) and eighth abdominal segments; the sides of the thoracic 

 segments are green, but the usual V-shaped mark is. I believe, absent. I have not been able to 

 obtain the larva recently for more careful description." (Dyar in Psyche, vi, p. 177.) 



I add Dr. Dyar's description of the egg and of Stages I-V. As my nitida is a synonym of 

 concinna, Dyar's description must be that of badia. I am indebted to Dr. Dyar for specimens of 

 hadia forming the subjects of PI. XXV II. 



iiEgg.— More than hemispherical, flat on the base, covered with shallow, rounded, hexagonal 

 areas, not distinctly defined, and becoming obscure and punctiform around the micropyle. 

 Diameter, 0.8 mm.; height, 0.0 mm. Laid three or four together on the under side of a leaf of 

 the food plant ( Vihunium). 



^^Fir.st hirral ,s/o(/e.— On joint 2, two subdorsal seta" on enlarged bases; on joint 5 a single 

 dorsal hump bears tubercle 1; on joints G-U two humps, tubercle Ion each, becoming smaller 

 posteriorly; on joint 12 a low single hump. Head higher than wide, the lobes distinct; pale 

 testaceous brown. Body shining red-brown, finely mottled with yellow, this color rejdaced by 

 clear yellow subdorsally on joints 3, 4, G, 8, and 11, and subventrally on joints 6, 8, and 9; feet 

 dark. The seta^ have rather large, slightly conical, brown, chitinous tubercles, normal in arrange- 

 ment (6 absent), with several on the lower part of the square brown leg plate; seta- slightly 

 enlarged at tip.. Anal feet elevated. 



"■Second s^/rye.— Head bilobed with a tubercle at the apex of each lobe; red-brown with a 

 rounded, pale yellow patch on each side of clypeus above, one on the side of each lobe and the 



