116 INSECUTOR INSCITIj^ MENSTRUUS 



narrowed; gray and brown, finely molded, with a broad lateral paler 

 stripe. Hair fine and dense, not concealing the body color, the second- 

 2uy hear long and short, even except for a radial disturbance at the rather 

 distinct warts i and vi, which bear longer hairs, all soft brown. On joint 

 2, rather distinct subdorseJ and lateraJ weirts. About one-third of the 

 shorter secondary hairs are stiff and with black tips, evidently poisonous. 



Mr. Gugelmann sent four of the communal nests, pendant from 

 branches, each stuffed with the single cocoons. The nests vary greatly 

 in size, evidently owing to the size of the larval colony, and also vary 

 greatly in shape, which is less easy to account for, as they are freely 

 pendant. 



Food plant : Terminalia buceras. 



Family NOTODONTID/E 

 Dicentria rustica Schaus. 



Head elliptical, higher than joint 2, slightly notched at the vertex; 

 brownish stone-color with a broad, straight, vertical band on each lobe, 

 slightly darker, edged with black on each side, vsath a browTi central 

 line ; with or vsathout purple-brown mottlings on the sides and next to the 

 vertical suture ; setae coarse, black, single. Body compressed ; a dorsal 

 horn on joint 5, bearing tubercles i ; joint 8 slightly humped dorsally, 

 joint 9 more so, joint 12 humped; tubercles i of joints 5, 8, 9, and 12 

 enlarged and reddish ; sides of joints 2 to 4 green, lightly dotted with 

 red ; a lateral patch of purple-red mottlings on joint 2 ; a dorsal band of 

 purple-brown, cut on joint 2 by a pale line and divided in the segmental 

 incisures. Rest of the body light purplish, mottled with red-brown dots, 

 lines, and reticulations ; feet openly light, wath marginal and cross lines of 

 red-brown ; a large dorsal whitish patch on joint 5 posteriorly to 8 ante- 

 riorly, widening posteriorly on each segment, openly lined with red, with 

 a central brown dot in joint 7 ; a dorsal white line on joint 1 posteriorly, 

 followed by subdorsal divergent white lines on joint 1 1 and a central 

 white dot ; dorsum of 1 1 to 1 3 narrowly brown, sides pale ; lateral area 

 of 5 to 11 obliquely barred in pale, the areas defined by heavier reticu- 

 lations. Setae coarse, black. Tubercles all small except as above indi- 

 cated. 



The larva is extremely similar to that of Schizura ipomcea. Doubleday. 

 It differs distinctly only in the shape of the white V-mark on joints 10-1 1 . 



Food plant : Terminalia buceras. 



