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the subventral region, the shields not cornified. Marks as before. 

 The reticulation.s on the sides indicate a waved sii])dorsaJ line. The 

 larva sits among the dead leaves on the ground, sluggish, covered by 

 a soft web. 



Stage VI. — Head 1..55 mm., small, rounded, pale brown, faintly 

 reticulate with dark red l)rown; ocelli black; seta^ short, pale, from 

 small black tubercles. Body narrow at joint 2, otherwise thick and 

 robust, flattened ventrally, feet short, joint 18 small. Pale brown, 

 marbled reticulate with dark red brown, an obscure and partly broken 

 dorsal line of reticulations. Tubercles and spiracles black, tubercle 

 iv of joints 5 to 8 below the spiracle, of 9 and 10 opposite the lower 

 angle, of 11 nearly in line with tubercle v, only a little al)ove it, of 12 

 below the lower angle of the spiracle. Shields scarcely cornified, the 

 anal plate more so than the cervical shield, both nearly unmarked and 

 more luteous than the bodj', but not contrasting. Setw obsolete except 

 subventrally. 



Stage VII. — Head l.S mm. As in the former stage exactly. 



Stage YIII. — Head 2.1 mm., rounded, not bilobed, pale dullocher, 

 neatly reticulate with red brown, paler on the vertex, the clypeal sut- 

 ures and ocelli darker. Body 3"ellow, ochraceous, reticulate with red; 

 a dorsal red brown line not crossing the cervical shield or anal plate, 

 diffuse, but narrow and distinct. An irregular waved lateral line, 

 caused by the reticulations being darker brown, in an arc of which 

 tubercle iii is the approximate center on each segment. Tubercles 

 distinct, luteous black, setaj obsolete, except subventrally. Spiracles 

 black; shields and plate not cornified, colored like the body, but not 

 distinctly reticulate, their tubercles luteous brown. Body moderately 

 robust, a little flattened ventrally, of equal width, not tapering, ieet 

 equal, short. 



Eggs from Bellport, New York, laid June 12, hatched June IT; last 

 larval molt September 15, with hibernation in the last stage; pupa- 

 tion May 1. 



The number of stages is probably subject to some variation. Some 

 of the full-grown larvfe after hibernation had th(» width of head only 

 1.8 mm., but they did not molt again, pupating in this stage. 



RENIA SOBRIALIS Walker. 



Eggs were ol)tained from moths of Renia lanmlis early in June, 

 and moths of R. whrlalii^ emerged in August. The two so-called spe- 

 cies are thus seen to be seasonal forms of one, as suggested by Prof. 

 John B. Smith in his monograph of the Deltoids.^ The specimens 

 were from Washington, D. C, and the larvfe fed on dry leaves, lying 

 concealed under them, but not forming a web, as CJiyfolita iii(/rhid(di>< 

 does. 



1 Bull. 48, U. S. Nat. Museum, \k 72. 



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