LIFE HISTORIES OF AMERICAN MOTHS— D YAR. 2 7 5 



oiiiil. a little elono-ate vertically and seeming to be slightly arranged 

 in vertical lines; a slight obsolescence at vertical inicropyle. No ribs, 

 })ut faintl}^ indicated vertical groovings, a suggestion rather than any 

 tangible structure, seen only in certain lights. Color translucent 

 green. Diameter 1.2 mm., height 0.3 mm. (The agg Avas accidentally 

 destroyed, so that there is a possibility of its being wrongl}^ deter- 

 mined.) 



Stojje III. — Head round and full, the sutures obscure, free from 

 joint 2; mouth not projecting; pale green, ocelli black, tubercles 

 ])rown, making it look speckled; mouth brownish; width 0.0 mm. 

 Body slender, the incisures well marked, anal feet stretched out pos- 

 teriorly. Abdominal feet on joints 7 to 10, very small on 7, small on 

 8, normal on 9 and 10. Pale green, smooth, translucent, incisures a 

 little shining, tubercles small, brown, i and iii the largest, iv sub- 

 stigmatal posteriorly. Seta? long, dusky, rather coarse. No shields, 

 the corresponding tubercles brown as on the body. Tubercle vi pale, 

 without brown coloration. 



Stage IV. — Head slightly bilobed; ocelli ])lack, four above in a 

 curved row, two below in line posteriorly with the antennas; clj^peus 

 reaching half way to vertex; width 0.8 mm. Pale green, tubercles 

 brown, sette black. Bod}" as before, the tuljercles brown, ib of thorax 

 and ii of abdomen in a large spot, the others small. 



Stage V. — Head 1.4 mm. Soft green, tubercles all roundedly red 

 brown, ii large. Body slender, feet of joint 7 somewhat small. 

 Tubercle iv fully to the middle of the spiracle on joint 5, below the 

 spiracle on 6, becoming higher posteriori}^ at 10 nearly opposite the 

 middle, on 11 lower but only substigmatal, on V2 below the lower cor- 

 ner. Setee long, dark dorsally, pale subventrally. A faint broken 

 reddish lateral line below tubercle ii. 



Stage VI. — The same; head 1.8 mm. The reddish lateral line is 

 faint and broken, with some similar spots below, irregular, avoiding 

 the tubercles. The merest trace of a similar nai-row subdorsal line 

 along tubercles i and ii. Otherwise no change from the previous 

 stage, green, the tubercles brown. The color is soft and translucent, 

 but the food not visible, not shining. 



Stage VII. — Head 2.2 mm. Green, the tubercles on head and ))ody 

 brownish red; traces of a broken subdorsal (tubercles i and ii), lateral, 

 suprastigmatal (iii) lines and very faint subventral mottlings. Spir- 

 acle of joint 12 three times as large as the others. Tubercle iv bc^ow 

 the lower corner of spiracle as before. Claspers of feet very large, 

 the anal feet divergent. Rather slender and a little flattened, nar- 

 rower posteriorly, Seta3 distinct, black. 



Pupa in a slight web in the ground. 



Food plant a species of Eugenia, probably E. luxifolia. Larva 

 from Palm Beach, Florida. 



