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peus short, squarely truncate, immaculate. Antennse two-tliirds as long 

 as the body, third joint three and a half times as long as wide, joint 

 four fully one-quarcer shorter than three, brown-black above, dull lu- 

 teous beneath, except joints one and two, which ai'e black, tipped below 

 with luteous. Thorax with the wing scales honey-yellow, and the 

 cenchri whitish. Ahdomcn, basal membrane whitish; ovipositor honey- 

 yellow, its sheath black. Legs honey-yellow, or paler, with the six tar- 

 sal tips, and sometimes the extreme tips of hinder tibiae and of the 

 tarsal joints one-quarter pale dusky. Wings sub-hyaline ; veins black ; 

 costa honey-yellow, stigma dusky, edged all round with honey-yellow, 

 especially below. 



% . " Differs as follows : — The antennte a little longer, and as usual, 

 vertically more dilated, joint three being only two and a half times as 

 lono- as wide. The coxae, except their tips and the basal half of the 

 femora are black ; the extreme tip of the hinder tibiae, and all but the 

 extreme base of the tarsus dusk. Anal forceps honey-yellow." 



Davenport, Iowa. (Walsh.) Me. (Packard.) N. Y. (Calverley.) 

 49 9 . 4 % . (Walsh.) 2 9 . (Norton.) Mr. Walsh bred these 

 Sept. 2, twelve from larvae found on the cultivated gooseberry. This 

 is the Pristlphora atn'pes of my collection and 3ISS. 



" Larva — A pale, grass-green worm, about half inch long, without 

 any black dots on its body, and with a black head; after the last 

 moult the head becoming principally green, with a lateral brown-black 

 stripe commencing at the eye spot, and more or less distinctly confluent 

 with the other one on the top of the head, where it is also more or less 

 confluent with a large central brown-black spot on the face. When 

 immature the larva has a darker dorsal line and a lateral yellowish line 

 above the spiracles, the space below which line is darker than the 

 back. Head black. Legs brown, except the sutures." 



Mr. Walsh found these larvx in great numbers on the gooseberry 

 and currant, about the last of June and early in July, and the second 

 brood in August, from which last he bred the above described imago. 

 They strip the ])lants of the leaves, not gathering in numbers on any 

 jKirticular leaf luir boring round holes through the leaves when young. 

 The second brood spun their cocoons on the bushes on which they fed, 

 and came forth August 26th, and during the last week in August. 

 Doubtless their eggs are laid in the twigs of these same bushes, so that 

 the larva in coming forth find their appropriate food close at hand. 



