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these requirements : domesticity, character of the. toothed claws in 

 the female carrying with it a face to face union of the sexes, and 

 strictly diurnal habits. 



Class I, Hexapoda. 



Order V, LEPIDOPTERA. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE LARVA OF TORTRICID A 

 FISKEANA DYAR. 



• By Harrison G. Dyar, 



Washington, D. C. 



A single larva of this species was found at Tryon, North Carolina, 

 on a Ceanothus bush, September 28, 1905. The adult emerged the 

 following year, a female specimen, agreeing in coloration with the 

 male. The larva is structurally a Lithacodes, and it will be better to 

 refer the species to that genus, which differs as adult but slightly from 

 Tortricidia. 



Stage VII. Elliptical, rather elongate, tail subquadrate but not incised on the 

 sides V^^ fasciola, not prominent. Dorsum rather over one-third in the dorsal as 

 pect, gently arched, narrowed to the ends ; sides oblique, concave, the upper half 

 nearly perpendicular, the lower more oblique to the lateral ridge. Subventral region 

 retracted ; head within the hood, which is again within joint 3. Setae obsolete, very 

 small, without raised tubercles ; skin smooth, with rather sparse round clear granules, 

 alike all over, without humps or irregularities even on the lateral ridge. The de- 

 pressed spaces are without sharp, or even defined edges, the granulation running 

 right across ; they are of considerable depth, with the usual glands in the bottom. 

 Dark yellow green, a little suffued with yellow in the dorsal space ; a narrow yellow 

 line in the subdorsal ridge, waved, touching depressed spaces (3) at the outcurves of 

 the segmentary arcs, not joining at the ends ; a similar but more diffused and rather 

 paler line in the dorsal space, covering depressed spaces (2) at the incurves of the 

 arcs, obsolete at the ends, meeting the subdorsal line intersegmentarily to form a row 

 of dark green ellipses on the upper edge of the subdorsal ridge. A narrow yellow 

 line along the lateral ridge, broken exactly above each spiracle, that is segmentarily 

 posteriorly; no hne on joint 3 transversely. Depressed spaces (i) single, annular, 

 yellow, with glandular centers; (2) and (3) smaller, obscured by the yellow bands; 

 (4) with a small yellow dot above and a large arc below, green centered; (5) and 

 (6) in line above the lateral ridge, (5) large, segmentary, (6) small intersegmentary. 

 Length, mature, 8 mm. 



Cocoon. Small, rounded, brown, spun in the crevices or under bark. The 

 larva left its plant without much change of color at first, but became pale yellowish 

 on the second day. It wandered about till it encountered some bark, when it con- 

 structed its cocoon between two pieces. 



