150 PROCEEDINGS OP THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxvi. 



Abdomen cylindrical-ovate, pointed at the apex; dark brown stripe 

 across segments two to seven near their anterior edges; dorsal plates, 

 except nine and ten, shaded more or less with brown; three or four 

 moderatel}^ stout brown spines stand out prominentl}' upon the pale 

 yellow sides of segments two to eight; terminal spines long, stout, and 

 dark colored; tip of abdomen dark brown. 



Redescribed from eight females. 



J/"«/f. — Length about 0.7 mm. (0.64 to 0.80 mm); width of meso- 

 thorax 0.195 mm. (0.18 to 0.23 mm.). General color pale yellow 

 darkest upon pterothorax. 



Eyes somewhat smaller than those of female. Antennaj about two 

 and one-third times as long as the head. Relative lengths of segments 

 as follows: 



4.3 8 11 10.8 7.9 10.1 iTe 2 



Wings large and reaching beyond the tip of the abdomen. End of 

 abdomen (ninth segment) Iduntly conical; tenth segment retracted and 

 not reaching the tip of the ninth; nine bears four pairs of long, stout, 

 dark spines, of which one pair stands on each side near the anterior 

 end of the segment, and one pair on each side near the tip; near the 

 middle above stand two short spines. 



Described from four specimens. 



Food 2)lants,—A\Mi^., apple, asparagus, aster (cultivated), bind- 

 weed, blackberry, buttercup, canna, cherry, clover, cone-flower, dan- 

 delion, dog-tooth violet, English pea, golden rod, grasses, hardback, 

 heal-all, heliotrope, honeysuckle, hydrangea, lilies, mesquite, orange,' I 

 pea, peach, pear, pink, plum, potato, raspberry, red clover, rose, I 

 shrubby Althea, smartweed, SoUdago HcoJor, Sj^imnthes simplex, I 

 squash, strawberry, sunflower, sw^eet william, wheat. 



IlaUtat.—CoMiovmix, District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, 

 Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York.' 



The following descriptions of early stages are taken from Quain- 

 tance : "■ 



Egg.—^izo. 0.25 by 0.1 mm.; clear whitish in color; oblono-, curved 

 in shape. 



Larva, first stage.— L&ng{h^^oui().h\nm.^ width of thorax nearly 

 1 nun.; body fusiform, gradually tapering c-audad from fifth or sixth 

 abdonnnal seguient. Color, clear whitish; eyes reddish. Antennae 

 distinctly tour-jointed; basal joint cylindrical, short; second somewhat 

 urn-shaped, with distinct distal rim, about as long as broad; third joint 

 conical, apex of cone united to second; fourth fusiform, widest near 

 basal fourth, quite as long as other three joints together. Joints two, 

 ttirei^, and four ringed, two and three rather obscurelv, but on fourth 

 joint the rings are qui^ e^nounced, where, on distal part, they 



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