NO. 1209. LIFE HISTORIES OF AMERICAN MOTHS— D YAR. 271 



INGURA BURSERiE Dyar. 



/Stage I. — Head greenish luteous, ocelli black, mouth In-own; width, 

 0.3 mm. Body thickest anteriorly, feet normal; translucent yellow, 

 green tinted. Tubercles small, all neatly black, i to v present; no 

 shields, the leg plates dusky. 



Stage II. — Head 0.5 mm. Green, no marks, four l)la('k tubercles 

 on the cervical shield. Shape as in the next stage. Tubercles obso- 

 lete, setae pale, short. Skin translucent, the dorsal vessel showing 

 darker. 



Stage III. — Head slightly squarish, bilobed, green, the jaws brown; 

 clypeus reaching about half way to vertex; width, 0.8 nun. Body 

 cylindrical, thickest in front on joints 2 to 5, tapering posteriorly, 

 especialh' on joint 13. Feet normal, the anal pair divergent. Green, 

 a yellow subdorsal line on joints 5 to 13 anteriorly. Shields not 

 cornitied; four black tu])orcles on the anterior edge of the cervical 

 shield; all else colorless; tubercle iv substigmatal posteriorly; seta? 

 pale. 



Stage IV. — Head as before, ocelli l)lack, clypeus reaching less than 

 half w^ay to vertex; width, 1.3 mm., small in proportion to the body. 

 Green, the food showing darker; subdorsal line yellow, on joints 3 to 

 13 anteriorly, with irregular yellow specks iii front on joints 2 and 3. 

 No shields, the black tubercles on the anterior edge of joint 2 are 

 white edged. A yellow stigmatal line on joints 2 to 12. Feet nor- 

 mal, with long claspers. 



Stage Y. — Head rounded, soft green, the ocelli black, five in a semi- 

 circle and one ])elow l)ohind the antenna, the third the largest; jaws 

 brown; width, l.S nun. Translucent green, the food darker; sub- 

 dorsal line from joint 3 to anal plate, stigmatal from 2 to 12 ante- 

 riorly, narrow, yellow. Rather numerous, irregular yellow dots 

 scattered over the l)ody and on the anal feet. Spiracles reddish; 

 tubercles small, concolorous, seta? pale. Six tubercles on the cervical 

 shield, the two upper anterior ones black; no cornitied shields. 

 Tubercle iv ])elow the spiracle on joints 7 to 10, in line with tubercle 

 V on joint 11, below the spiracle on joint 12. 



StageVI. — Head 2.1- mm. As before, but the l)lack dots on joint 2 

 are minute and inconspicuous. Yellow subdorsal and stigmatal lines 

 distinct, the irregular spots numerous. Slight, dull, reddish, mottlings 

 about tulxn-cles iii and v. 



Cocoon in the sand or between leaves on the ground, tln^ Knaves 

 partly bitten up. 



Food jc>Z«^^,— "Gumbo-limbo"' {Bursera gnmmifera)\ larva^ from 

 Palm Beach, Florida. 



