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HARRISON G. DYAR. 
Var. inoiiitor Pack.- (Plate iv, tigs. 9-11). 
In tins the green foi’ins a complete band, e.Ycavated aliove the 
middle of the internal margin. Harris gives a good figure of it in 
“ Insects Injurious to Vegetation,” page 420. 
The above varieties are all connected by intergrading forms. 
The larva is elongate, rounded, the dorsal i-egion Hat, nearly level, 
of uniform width, rounded at the extremities; sides nearly jierpen- 
dicular. Head whitish, labrum and sutures of clypeus yellowish ; 
ocelli black ; jaws dark brown ; retracted beneath joint 2. Along 
the subdorsal ridge of the body on each side is a row of elongated 
spinose tubercles, on joints 3 to 18 inclusive; those on joints 3, 4, 
5, 1 1, 12 and 13, about three times as long as the others. The spines 
are short, black, and arise from conical bases. Another lateral row 
of spinous tubercles beginning on joint 3, those on joints G to 12 
situated above the spiracles (none on joint 5) the one on joint 4 
about as long as the subdorsal one, the others of uniform length, 
longer and rather slenderer than the short subdoi-sal ones. A ro'w 
of dorsal and lateral elliptical dej)re.ssions, each containing two ir- 
regular wdiitish dots, only appearing distinctly when the body is 
retracted. The body is covered wdth very minute transparent granu- 
lations. Spiracles very small, circular, projecting, yellowish. 
The larva varies much in color, from sordid ])urplish to green; 
there is a subdorsal band covering the row of tubercles which varies 
from ferruginous through yellow to gi’een (it may be concolorous 
with the body) sometimes narrowly and irregularly edged with black 
or crimson, but always thrice interrupted by a subquadrate spot of 
red or dark brown, viz., between joints 6 and 7, 9 and 10, 11 and 12. 
Length, 12 mm. ; width, 6 mm. ; height, 4 mm. 
Hub . — Atlantic States to Mississippi Valley, South America (?). 
EiicleH elliotii Pearsall (Plate iv, figs. 12, 13). 
1887. — Pearsall, Ent. Anier. ii, 209. 
Closely allied to E. pcenulata, from which it differs only in the 
jtresence of the discal dot and the somewdiat smaller size of the green 
patch which does not reach quite .so near to the costa, nor exactly to 
* This variety comes nearest to Cramer’s figure of cippns. I have had some 
doubt about referring the species to at all, as I have never seen a specimen 
that exactly corresponds to Cramer’s figui-e in which the greeTi band is broken 
into three triangular spots: but this may occur. The figure is too poor to base 
critical remarks upon, but it seems extremely ju’obable that it is the present 
species that was intended. However, if this should not prove satisfactory, there 
are plenty of other names, as may be seen from the above .synonymy. There is 
no doubt about the figure of delphinii. 
