March, igoi.] DyaR : PyRALID LaRV^ FROM FLORIDA. 21 



teriorly ; cervical shield large, weak, translucent whitish, more translucent centrally 

 and anteriorly, the whitish parts black dotted and a marginal black line. Body 

 whitish, the food giving a green tint. A double yellow dorsal line enclosing the 

 greenish dorsal vessel ; a single substigmatal line on joints 3 to 13 anteriorly, wavy 

 edged and a little broken ; sides a little whitened, with a broken white lateral line 

 above tubercle iii, obscurely dusky edged above. Tubercles i to iii white, hair 

 tubercles black with a distant white ring, absent on iii which therefore looks smaller ; 

 iv -|- V obscurely white ringed and vi also on the apodal segments. Anal flap 

 greenish marbled with white. Spiracles light red, that of joint 5 lower than the rest, 

 feet short, pale. 



Food-plant : Capparis jamaicensis ; living between leaves firmly- 

 spun together. 



Dichogama bergii Mdschl. 



LafZ'a. Head round, ape.\ below joint two, clypeus high, reaching cervical 

 shield in the ordinary position of retraction, whitish with scattered patches of dark 

 brown; width 1.7 mm. Body pale red, scarcely marked ; cervical shield transparent, 

 faintly spotted ; subdorsal (above i), lateral (between ii and iii) and stigmatal lines 

 distinct, whitish, reaching joints 3 to 13 ; dorsal vessel reddish ; spaces between 

 dorsal and lateral lines and between lateral and stigmatal filled in with black ; brown- 

 ish mottlings on subventral fold, subventer colorless. Body a little flattened ; setse 

 long and pale. 



■ Food-plant: Capparis cynophallophora ; living among leaves firmly 

 spun together. 



Epicorsia mellinalis Hi'ibn. 



Larva. Head orange, antenna; whitish, jaws, eyes and ends of antennae black ; 

 setae rather long, pale. Body tapering somewhat posteriorly ; semitransparent shin- 

 ing dull greenish, subdorsal and stigmatal lines yellow orange. Cervical- shield nearly 

 white with many irregular black spots. Tubercles black, edged with white, white 

 centrally but the hair tubercle again black ; a single dorsal spot in front of the anal 

 plate which is colored like the cervical shield. Thoracic feet black. 



Food-plant : Citharexyluni villosiiin ; curling a leaf and spinning a 

 web over the top. 



Terastia meticulosalis Gicen. 



Larva. Head rounded, paraclypeal pieces reaching vertex ; blackish brown, 

 sutures and sides black, labrum pale ; width 1. 9 mm. Cervical shield moderate, 

 brown, bisected ; anal plate large, pale brown. Body large, robust, pale luteous, 

 faintly coarsely mottled with reddish leaving obscure broken pale addorsal, subdorsal, 

 stigmatal and traces of subventral lines ; dorsal vessel darker. Skin not shining ; 

 minutely granular ; segments 2-annulate. Tubercles large, luteous ; il arger than ii, 

 iii large, iiia before and above spiracle, iv and v united, one above the other. Spir- 

 acle of joint 12 more dorsally placed than the others. 



Foodplant : Erythrina herbacea. The larva is an internal feeder, 



