NO. 1209. LIFE HISTORIES OF AMERICAN MOTHS— DYAR. 261 



Stage Y. — Head as ))cfore, the antennae rather long; width, ^ mm. 

 Body the same, nearly colorless, only faintly In'own or vinous tinged, 

 the posterior dorsal marks nearly ol)sol(^te. Marks replaced ))y very 

 dense hair, but the large, diffuse black dorsal patch(\s are present on 

 joints -i to 6 and 9 to 10. Hair bright l)rown with short black tips, 

 all (n^en, only a few long pale ones overhanging the head. A slight, 

 black, crested tuft on the upper side of tubercle i on joint 5, as long as 

 the other hair. Hairs brightest, most reddish centrally, the end and 

 subventral ones without black tips. Feet all pale. Hairs rather long, 

 barbuled, the tips formed by three or four black barbules in a terminal 

 group; the barbules on the shaft concolorous with the hair. The larva 

 looks like a brown hairy gall on the back of the leaf. 



Stage VI. — Head rounded, scarcel}'^ bilobed, pale whitish, a large, 

 thick, inverted U-shaped black mark bordering the cl3^peus and throw- 

 ing out a short spur at the side below\ Antenna? rather long, pale; 

 labrum whitish; width, ^.5 mm. Body flattened ventrally, rounded, 

 thickest at joint 5 and a little depressed at the ends, entirely covered 

 b}' the dense, brush-like hair. Pale yellowish, scarcely translucent, 

 warts concolorous, no marks whatever. Hair dense, even, and regular, 

 pale yellow, spinulose, the ends slighth^ brown tufted. On the sub- 

 dorsal wart of joints 3 and 4 a long, slender, white pencil of two or 

 three hairs, rather densely feathered, spinulose. Warts i to vi all large 

 and rather contiguous, rounded, hemispherical, the single subdorsals 

 of joints 3 and 4 a little elongated transversely. No trace of the tuft 

 on joint 5 of former stage. During the stage the hair becomes dark 

 yellow. 



Stage YII. — Head pale j^ellow, a diffuse reddish shade over the face 

 of each' lobe, the paraclypeal pieces grayish and some gray dots on 

 clypeus; labrum, epistoma, and antenna white; ocelli brown, jaws 

 black at tip; the black U-shaped band entirely absent; width, 3.5 mm. 

 ft Bod}' as before, thickly covered with a brush of yellow hair, even, 



■ spinulose, the ends pointed, not tufted; four slight and slender pencils 

 of white hairs arise from the subdorsal warts of thorax. Body and 

 warts pale 3^ellow like the hairs, without marks. Later the head 

 becomes dark orange red. Other larvae, alike till this stage, came out 

 Avith variously colored hair — bright j^ellow, mouse gray, chocolate 

 brown, and orange red, the color always residing in the distal third of 



^ the hair in the spinulose part, the heads and bodies not affected, being 



■ all alike in color. All the thoracic pencils were white. Later the 



■ color dulls so that there are only two forms, 3'ellow and chocolate 



■ brown, which continue distinct till maturity. 



■ Cocoons composed of the hair felted in a delicate web of silk. I'upa 



■ dark brown, concealed by the cocoon. 



H Food jjlants. — Eugenia hwxlfolla^ E. procei^a. 



