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rounded ovipositor; ostium plate weakly developed; ductus simple, not 

 much longer than bursa, which is elongate-ovate with finely granulated 

 walls. 



A well-defined genus, world-wide in distribution, including some of the 

 largest species in the family. All are borers in the vines or underground 

 tubers of plants of the family Cucurbitaceae. The extreme hairiness of 

 the posterior tibiae and tarsi is characteristic of all the species. 



KEY TO NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF MELITTIA 



Forewing dark olive-green, scales rough; abdomen red, spotted with black on 

 dorsum cucurbitae (Harris) 



Forewing dark olive-green, scales rough, pearly; abdomen orange-red, banded 

 with black; tibiae marked with black grandis (Strecker) 



Forewing pale olive, scales rough, pearly; abdomen olive-green on back, red and 

 black at sides grandis hermosa, new variety 



Forewing grayish slate-colored, scales smooth; abdomen slate-colored on dor- 

 sum, size small snowii Hy. Edwards 



Forewing blue-black and orange, abdomen blue-black. . .magnifica Beutenmiiller 



Forewing olive-green, scales smooth; hindwing of male transparent; hindwing 

 of female orange-red; tibiae and tarsi marked with black. 



gloriosa Hy. Edwards 



Hindwing of female transparent, orange at base. 



gloriosa race lindseyi Barnes and Benjamin 



MELITTIA CUCURBITAE (Harris) 



Plate 3, Figure 23 ; Plate 12, Figures 54, 54a; Plate 16, Figure 84 



Aegcria cucurbitae Harris, New England Farmer, vol. 7, p. 33, 1828. — Riley, Second 

 report on the noxious and other insects of the State of Missouri, p. 64, 1870. — 

 Reed, Rep. Ent. Soc. Ontario, 1871, pp. 89-90. — Marten, Tenth report of the 

 State entomologist on the noxious and beneficial insects of the State of Illinois, 

 1880, p. 107, 1881.— Saunders, Insects injurious to fruits, p. 361, 1883.— Kent, 

 Insect Life, vol. 1, p. 17, 1888.— Packard, 9th Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. 

 Terr. (Hayden), 1875, p. 769, 1877. — French, in Thomas, Seventh report of the 

 State entomologist on the noxious and beneficial insects of the State of Illinois, 

 1877, p. 173, 1878. — McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and 

 the United States of America, pt. 2, No. 8777, 1939. 



Trochilium ceto Westwood, The cabinet of Oriental entomology, pi. 30, fig. 6, 1848. 



Meliitia ceto Walker, List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection 

 of the British Museum, pt. 8, p. 66, 1856. — Druce, Biologia Centrali-Americana, 

 Lepidoptera, vol. 1, p. 32, 1883. — Hy. Edwards, Papilio, vol. 3, p. 157, 1883. — 

 Smith, Catalogue of insects found in New Jersey, p. 288, 1890; 13th Ann. Rep. 

 New Jersey Agr. Exp. Stat., p. 499, 1892. — Kellicott, Insect Life, vol. 5, pp. 

 82, 85, 1892. — Comstock, Manual for the study of insects, p. 262, 1895. — Webster, 

 Ohio Farmer, vol. — , p. 157, 1895. — Slingerland, Rural New Yorker, vol. 54, 

 p. 261, 1895.— Quaintance, Florida Agr. Exp. Stat. Bull. 34, p. 293, 1896. 



Meliitia cticurbitae Walker, List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the 

 collection of the British Museum, pt. 8, p. 66, 1856. — Packard, Guide to the 

 study of insects . . ., p. 279, 1869. — Lintner, Country Gentleman, vol. 43, 

 p. 551, 1878.— French, Prairie Farmer, vol. 50, p. — , 1879. — Coleman, Papilio, 

 vol. 2, p. 50, 1882.— Hulst, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, vol. 6, p. 10, 1883.— Doran, 

 Bienn. Rep. Comm. Agr. Tennessee for 1885-86, p. 207, 1887.— Smith, Insect 



