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11 ; joints C-S suffused with jjiiikisli dorsally. The area on the sides of joints 2— t and the bases of 

 the feet on joints 7-10 below the substigiuatal line translucent whitish, with sparse, dotted, 

 brown reticulations. Horn (5 mm. lonj;-, tapering, the distal half slender. When full grown 

 the larva becomes paler throughout, though different individuals vary in shade. Feeds solitary 

 ou the edge of a leaf." 



Food phmf.—SnVix, Populus (Thaxter); white birch [Betula papyrifcra). maple, beech; apple, 

 (Beuteiimiiller); "a larva was found ou the ground under an elm tree" (Dyar); "a more general 

 feeder than lejitiMoidc.s" (Dyar). 



Geographk-al distribution. — So far as yet known, an iiihabitaut of the northern portion of the 

 Appalachian subprovince. 



Frauconia, N. H. (Mrs. Slosson); Roxbury, Mass., (Sanborn, Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist.); Kittery, 

 Me. (Thaxter, French); Plattsburg, N. Y. (Hudson); New York (II. Edwards); northern Kentucky 

 (Sanborn, Mus. Comp. Zool.); Massachusetts, New York, Champlain, 111. (French); New Y'ork 

 (Dyar); Seattle, Wash. (Dyar); rennsylvania, British Columbia (Palm); Keene Valley, New Y'ork 

 (Dyar). 



Schizura conciuua (Abbot .aud Smith). 

 (I'l. VI, figs.l and 2,,?, 3, 9.) 



Phala-na concinna Abbot and Smith, Nat. Hist. Lep. Ins. Georgia, ii, p. 169, I'l. LXXXV, 1797. 



Notodoiila concinna Harris, Rep. Ins. inj. Veg. Mass., p. 309, 1841; Treatise ou Ins. inj.Veg., third edit., 



pp. 425, 426, larva Kg. 210, PL VI, fig. 11, 1862 (colored tig. of moth). 

 Edema concinna Walk , Cat. Lep. Het. Br. Mus.. v, p. 1030, 1855. 

 Notodonta concinna Fitch, Third Hep. uox. Ins. N. York, p. 342, 1856. 

 Edema concinna Morris, Synopsis Leji. N. Amer., p. 242, 1862. 

 (Edemasia concinna Pack., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., iii, p. 360, 1864. 

 (Edemasia niiida Pack., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., iii, p. 360, 1864. 

 Notodonta concinna Riley, Amer. Ent., ii, p. 27, Sept. and Oct., 1869. (Figures larva, pupa, and moth, the 



latter copied from Harris.) 

 Heterocampa salicis Edwards, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., vii.p. 121, 1876. 

 (Edemasia concinna Grote, New Check List N. Amer. Moths, p. 19, 1882. 

 ■(Edemasia niiida Grote, New Check List N. Amer. Moths, p. 19, 1882. 



Riley, Report Entomologist U. S. Dept. Agr. for 1884, p. 411, 18S5. 



Packard, Filth Reii. U. S. Ent. Comm. Forest Ins., p. 457, 1890. 

 Xolodonta concinna Dimmock (Anna K.), Psyche, iv, p. 279, 1885. 



Dryocampa riversii Behr., Proc. Cal. Acad. Sc. (2) ii, p. 94, 1890. (S. salieis,Jide Dyar in letter). 

 (Edemasia coiiciniia Smith, List.. Lep. Bor. Amer., p. 30, 1891. 

 (Edemasia salicis Dyar, Psyche, vi, p. 177, 1891. 



Kirby, Syu. Cat. Lep. Het., i, p. 567, 1892. 

 (Edemasia nitida Smith, List Lep. Bor. Amer., ]>. 30, 1891. 



Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lep. Het., i, p. 567, 1892. 

 Schizm-a concinna Neum. and Dyar, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, xxi, p. 202, .June, 1894; .louru. N. Y. Ent. Soc. 

 ii, p. 116, Sept., 1894. 



Larva. 



(PI. XXVI, figs. 5, .50-5/.) 



Abbot and Smith, Nat. Hist. Lep. Ins. Georgia, ii, p. 169, Tab. LXXXV, 1797. (All stages figured.) 



Fitch. Third Rep. Nox. Ins. N. Y'ork, p. 342, 18.56. 



ffarris, Treat, Ins. inj. Veg., 3d edit., p. 125, 1862, moth, PI. VI, fig. 11, larva, fig. 210 iu text. 



Ent. Corresp., p. 303, PI. I, fig. 3, 1869. (Larva). 

 Marten, Trans. Dept. Agr. 111., xviii. Append., p. 120, 1880. 

 Sannders, Can. Ent., xiii, p. 138, 1881; 12th Rep. Ent. Soc. Ontario, p. 21, 1882; Ins. luj. Forests, p. 03. 1883 



(compiled, figs, copied from Riley and Harris). 

 Edwards and Elliot. Papilio, iii, p. 130, 1883. 



Beutenm idler, Entoniologica Americana, iii, p. 157, 1887. (List of food plants.) 

 Eileti, Rep. Ent. U. S. Dept. Agr. for 1884, p. 411, 1885 (figs, of larva, pupa, and moth). 

 Bimmock, Anna A'., Psycho, iv, p. 279, 1885. 



Packard, Fifth Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm. ou Forest Ins., p. 4.57, 1890. (Larval Stages II, III, V.) 

 Proc, Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xxiv, p. 531, 1890. (Egg and larval Stages II, IV, V.) 

 Jourii. N. York Ent. Soc, i, p. 68-69, ,Juue, 1893. (Larval Stages I, II.) 

 Dijar, Psyche, vi, p. 177, 1891. (Stages III to V of (Edemasia salicis.) 



