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taceous, eyes l)lat'k, mouth brown; width 0.1> inni. Body smooth, 

 moderate, minutely conically o-ranular, aci-M distinct, short, stiff, l)lack 

 with enlarged tips> Pale yellow, slightly green tinted, a narrow, 

 brown, broken dorsal line, widening on joints 5 to 9 into arrow- 

 shaped marks (the point anteriorly); a short su])dorbal band on the 

 thorax, and traces of a subventral band on the anterior half. Veater 

 clear, su])ventral fold slightly whitish. Feet ])a]e. Other examples 

 have a faint or distinct brown dorsal and subdcjrsal lines, joining the 

 arrow-shaped, marks. On one example the marks were all large and a 

 brow^n sul)veutral shaded l^and was present, the l)rown color predomi- 

 nating over the yellow ground. 



Pupa. — In a slight web; length 6.5 mm.; dull yellowish green, 

 somewhat translucent, the rings of the al)domen luteous, the anal seg- 

 ment and cremaster brown; dorsal line dull green; sutures of cases 

 finel}^ lined in dark ]>rown. The anal segment has a low rounded 

 process laterally; cremaster slender, rather long, wide and flat, with a 

 terminal row of long hooks. The shape is normal, much as in Oldoro- 

 chlamys chloroleucaria. 



Food plant. — Flowers of golden rod (Solidago sp.) from Bellport, 

 Long Island, New York. A bouquet of these flowers w\as found alive 

 with little Geometrids, consisting of the species here described, C. 

 chlo'roleucaria., and Deptalia insxdaria. 



STERICTA INCRUSTALIS Hulst. 



One of the bred spcciiuens was named by the Rev. Dr. Hulst. The 

 larva is not uncommon in Southern Florida, solitary usually, in an 

 inconspicuous web among the leaves of its food plant. The web is 

 loose and open, suggesting a spider's wel), l)ut the lar^a lies concealed 

 among the leaves. The moths have a curious habit of placing the eggs 

 by preference in an old web of a former larva, where the leaves have 

 not been too closely stripped. This usually happens where the former 

 larva has been parasitized. There are probably six larval stages; I 

 have not determined exactly. 



Fgg. — Flat, like a Cochlidian, singly or as many as six, laid over- 

 lapping like shingles. Elliptical, 1.8 by 1.2 nmi.; surface neatly 

 irregularly reticulate; dark ocher with a colorless i-im, the shell white 

 after the larva has emerged, Emliryo visible, as in the Cochlidians. 



Stage II (or I^). — In an old nest between two leaves stitched 

 together. Head luteous, sutures and a faint line hack from the ocelli 

 l)rown; width about O.-t mm. Body greenish, uniform, no shields, 

 faintly brown lined to the subventral fold. (Incompl(>t(^ly ol)ser\ed.) 



Stage IV. — Resting out straight in the center of a loose open web 

 among the leaves. Head held out flat, flattened, clypeus rather high; 

 face luteous, sutures brown, but on the sides of the l()l)es an^ three 

 black lines with four alternatino* white ones from the mouth hack- 



