NO.1209. LIFE HISTORIES OF AMERICAN MOTHS— DYAR. 277 



sepaiuted on the centnil segments, iv al)()\e tlKvspiraclc. nc^irh in line 

 with iii. Setfe dusky, feet pak>. 



Stage TIL — Head round, large, free from joint 2, slightly bilohod, 

 clypeus rather small; Avhitish, with five nearly parallel brown bands on 

 each lobe, continuous with the lines on the ])ody. They are a little 

 irregular and lighter brown in the center of each. Width 0.8 mm. 

 Bod}' slender ])ut uniform, a little flattened ventrally; abdominal feet 

 on joints 9, 10, and 13. Pale greenish yellow, with dark-brown lines 

 al)out as wide as the intervening spaces. These are single, narrow, 

 ])roken dorsal, double subdorsal, lateral, substigmatal, subventral, and 

 pedal lines. The pairs are approximate, filled in between with yel- 

 lowish brown, or might be called single lines, paler centrall3\ The 

 pedal line is only obscurely geminate. Tubercles and setae black, the 

 former minute. Abdominal feet pale, brown spotted, the anal pair 

 lined. Thoracic feet reddish. 



Stage IV. — Head large for the liody, round, full, scarcely bilobed; 

 white, with geminate, brown, pale-brown filled lines as before, the cen- 

 tral white space over the suture the widest. Abdominal feet as before, 

 lines the same; also a single medio- ventral line. A geminate l)lackish 

 dot in the subdorsal band in the incisure 5 to fi. The single dorsal 

 line is nearly obsolete. 



Stage V. — Head rounded, full, very large, one and a half times as 

 wide as the body, projecting well above joint 2, smooth, not bilobed; 

 pale 3^ellowish, with man}^ brown lines reaching from the mouth to occi- 

 put, parallel, curved, eleven on each side, obscurely in pairs; clypeus 

 pale, as also the median suture somewhat broadly, and antenna?; width 

 1.5 mm. Body slender; no feet on joints 7 and 8; pale yellow, finely 

 lined with brown; three lines and a broader median one below the 

 subventral fold; fold yellowish, eight lines above it, namely, geminate 

 dorsal, three subdorsal, united by a dark shade into a broad sul^dorsal 

 band, dou})le lateral, and double superstigmatal. The substigmatal 

 pale interval is the subventral fold, and is \'ellower than the rest. No 

 shields nor plates; legs brown lined. Black dots in the incisure 5 to 

 6; tubercles obsolete; setas rather large. 



Stage VI. — No change. The antennie arc long, twice the length of 

 the mouth. The head is large, making the larva club-shaped, joint 2 

 widening to meet it; width 2.2 to 2.5 mm. Lines very fine, brown, 

 crinkly, some breaking down; dorsal line fine, geminate; subdorsal of 

 four lines filled in with an olivaceous shade, black dotted in the incis- 

 ure 5 to 6; double lateral, single superstigmatal, single stigmatal, single 

 substigmatal lines; broad subventral of four lines filled in with brown 

 like the subdorsal; dark-brown medio-ventral with three lines between 

 it and the subventral line, alternating reddish and brown. All on a 

 pale 3'ellow field, a little whitish in the dorsal space. Feet pale, brown 



