﻿June, 1895 J Dyar. Notes ON Callimorphas. 59 



NOTES ON T\VO CALLIMORPHAS. 



By Harrison G. Dyar. 



Last Summer Dr. Lintner obtained eggs from some 2 Callimorphas 

 at Keene Valley in the Adirondacks, and gave them to me to raise. 

 There proved to be two species, lecontei and confiisa. 



Haploa lecontei G iter in. 



Egg. — Resembling the eggs oi confiisa but very pale yellow, and 

 scarcely shining. Reticulations small, close, evident and rounded, 

 casting shadows in the depressions ; they differ chiefly from those of 

 confiisa in being deeper and smaller. Diameter . 7 mm. The eggs 

 failed to hatch, though the embryos advanced nearly to the point of bit- 

 ing the shell. 



Haploa confusa Lyman. 



Mr. Lyman has given descriptions of about four stages in Can. Ent., 

 Vol. XIX., p. 186. 



Egg. — Spherical with the base a little flattened, adherent ; smooth, 

 shining rather dark yellow ; reticulations obscure, but becoming evi- 

 dent in certain lights, very narrow, linear, irregular, the meshes mod- 

 erately large. Diameter .7 mm. Mr. Lyman does not mention the 

 reticulations. 



Eirst Stage. — Head shining black over the apices of the lobes, 

 but the whole clypeus pale yellowish; mouth brown ; width .35 mm. 

 Body yellowish, the cervical shield black, bisected ; warts very large, 

 shining black, each with a single long seta. The arrangement is not 

 exactly that of the mature larva as Mr. Lyman states, because wart vi is 

 lacking. AVart iv is situated directly behind the spiracle, as near to 

 iii as to v. A long seta on the leg-plate. 



Second Siage. — Head, cervical shield, anal plate, warts and legs 

 shining black ; body whitish with a broad brown dorsal band, extending 

 to wart iii, but paler centrally so as to be almost reduced to two sub- 

 dorsal bands. Hair black and white mixed, short, bristly; four or 

 more hairs from each wart ; wart vi present, elongate, as distinct as the 

 the others. Width of head .5 mm. Later, dorsally and laterally whit- 

 ish, with a yellowish segmental mark just above wart iv; subdorsal 

 bands slaty brown, connecting dorsally in the incisures. 



Third Stage (inX.tT'^oXzXed. stage?). — Head black, width .6 mm. 

 A broad, irregular grayish white dorsal line; a blackish subdorsal 



