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none on joint 3; anterior niarjiin of joint 9, and of snbjoint with 

 a continnous row of smaller, anteriorly curved hooks; joints 7 

 and 8 unarmed dorvsally; ventrally joints 6, 7 and 8 have each 

 four minor hooks. 



Cocoon. Length 3.5mm. Neater than that of any other spe- 

 cies known to me, being formed of fine threads, lined with gel- 

 atinous ones. The web is quite dense, uniform, with well de- 

 fined, sometimes thickened ribs. The cocoon is always securely 

 fastened singly to leaf or 8tick, and if many are fastened on 

 the same leaf, they do not crowd each other. It fits snugly 

 about the pupa, which is so securely anchored inside as to be 

 with diflficulty extricated. 



Several female specimens taken by Messrs MacG^illivray and 

 Houghton at Axton N. Y. in company with S. v i 1 1 a t u m 

 agree perfectly with Coquillett's description, though not so well 

 with Riley's. Coquillett's des(rii)lion of the female in United 

 States Dep't Agric. bulletin 1(1, new scries, reads as follows: 



Abdomen of female gray, marked with a velvet-black fascia 

 on segments 3 and 4, and sometimes with two subdorsal spots 

 of the same color on 2, 5 and 6; thorax bluish gray with three 

 black vittae. 



The blue color on the abdomen si>oken of by Riley in his de- 

 scription is not distinguishable in the dried cotype specimen, 

 the posterior segments appearing grayish. In the male the 

 thorax is velvety black, with a few pale yellow hairs, specially 

 anteriorly and posteriorly. The abdomen is velvet-black, the 

 posterior margins of segments sometimes pale. The fore tibi^i 

 possesses a single spur, the middle and hind ones each with a 

 pair [pl.38, fig.l2]. All tarsal claws of the male trifid [pl.38, 

 fig.l8] ; of the female bifid [pl.38, fig.l6]. 



It may be mentioned that what Riley calls mentum I have 

 termed labium. To Riley's description of the larvae may be 

 added that the a])ical pair of bristles of the mandible is not 

 ju'esent or at least is not differentiated from the other hairs; 

 the labrum and hy])0])harynx [pi. 33, fig.ll, 3] resemble those 

 of other species; the labium has four ]i:iirs of setae [pi. 33, fig.4], 

 one of which is quite small; the maxillary i»alpus has no setae 

 on the last joint, and but few hair-s on Die basal joint. No 

 spines are apparent at liii of llic last abdominal joint of pupae, 



