270 PROCEEBTNOS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vm. xxm. 



the dor.suin of joints 6 to 10 broadly gray white, cut by a slendor 

 dusky dorsal line; joints i and i2, except dorsally on joint 12, dull 

 orange. All the rest blackish purple with narrow white line on the 

 subventral fold; feet and venter pale, nearly colorless, A short black 

 tuft from the upper side of wart ii on joints 5 and 12, forming a 

 paired tuft on joint 5, single on joint 12. Other hair moderately 

 dense, not concealing the body, fine, sordid reddish and ])lackish 

 mixed, with some long white ones at the ends. The general tint of 

 the hair is a reddish brown. Warts pale, slightly flesh-colored, mod- 

 erate, round. With growth the color becomes more sordid, the white 

 suffused with dull red, the dark purple parts lighter and more pur- 

 plish, only joint 5 remaining dark. Warts surrounded by white rings; 

 ■feet reddish. 



Stage V. — Head broad, not high, full and round, scarcely bilobed; 

 clypeus reaching nearly to the top of the front; shining black, epis- 

 toma narrowly and the base of antennae white; width 2.5 mm. Body 

 sordid gray; subdorsally on joints 6 to 10 and 12, the ground color 

 is lighter and pale salmon tinted; warts all pale salmon color. Hair 

 rather uniform, moderately dense, reddish, nuich the color of dead 

 leaves, but lighter and somewhat salmon colored like the warts. The 

 long hairs anteriorly and posteriorly are whitish. A narrow whitish 

 stripe along the stigmatal fold of joints 5 to 12. Feet pale, slightly 

 reddish. Warts large, round, i, iv, and v a trifle smaller, all well 

 alternating, arctiiform. Joint 2 much retracted, with slight warts; 

 two subdorsal warts on joints 3 and 4, ib and iii present as distinct 

 rudiments. Hair spinulose, sharp pointed. No tufts, the dorsal hair 

 not even keeled. Spiracles black rimmed. Later the larva is uni- 

 formly sordid grayish with a dusky dorsal line, the hair pinkish 

 brown, slightly darker dorsally on joints 5 and 12. White substig- 

 matal band obsolete except intersegmentally, 



/Stage VI. — Head shining lilack, basal joint of antenna? reddish, 

 epistoma slightly paler at the sides, mostly black; width 4 mm. Body 

 fleshy brown with a vascular dorsal blackish stripe; warts and hair 

 light pinkish brown. Hair regular, dense, with numerous longer 

 coneolorous ones at the ends. White subventral band (above wart v) 

 present in the incisures only, obscure. Feet reddish. The hair is 

 densely spinulose; seen at right angles it is pale pinkish brown; seen 

 obliquely it is much darker and more reddish brown. 



Cocooii elliptical, rather thin, composed of hair and silk, spun among 

 leaves, not entir(^ly concealing the pupa. 



Pupa dark mahoganj^ l)rown, shaped as in Halisidota. 



Food 'plant. — Giiettarda elliptica. 



