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coloured faint line along the spiracular region; and the segmental divisions also 

 are of this pale colour. In some specimens the hairs are grey ; in others brown. 

 Ventral surface uniformly of the same colour as the ground of the dorsal area; 

 the legs reticulated, and the pro-legs tipped with black." 



The larva is said to feed on Speedwell {Veronica chamacdrys). 

 Among the numerous species of Veronica found in this country is in- 

 this country is included this European species, which is now found in 

 the northeast U. S. and southeastern Canada according to Gray's 

 "Manual". The pupa is described as follows: 



"The pupa is attached by the tail only, is rather long, but slender. The 

 head, which is the thickest part, is abruptly rounded, and has the snout very 

 prominent ; thora.x and abdomen rounded above, rather flattened beneath, and 

 attenuated strongly to the anal point ; eye, leg, and wing-cases fairly prominent, 

 the last prolonged a considerable distance over the abdominal segments. As 

 in the larva, there are two varieties ; in one form, the ground is bright green, 

 and there is little of any other colour, the pale gray abdominal divisions, and 

 two indistinct pale lines on the dorsal area, with several faint purplish spots 

 behind the thorax and on the anal segment, being all that are noticeable. The 

 other form has the ground a dingier green, and there is a distinct purple dorsal 

 stripe, edged on each side with greyish; the abdominal divisions and the tip 

 of the prolonged wing-cases also purple. The pupa is capable of considerable 

 movement, and, on being disturbed, turns up sharply the thorax and higher 

 abdominal segments, so as to bring them quite at right angles with the several 

 posterior segments." 



Tutt records the imago in England in July, rarely in June and 

 August. 



4. Stenoptilia zophodactvla Duponchel. PI. XLII, fig. 16. PI. 

 XLIX, fig. 15. 



Pterophorus zophodactylus Duponchel, Lep. France XI, 668, pi. CCCXIV, f. 4, 

 1838. 



Porritt, Ent. Mo. Mag. XX, 228, 1884 (biol.). 

 Ptcrophonis loewii Zeller, Isis, p. 38, 1847 {fide Hofmann). 



Id., Linn. Ent. VI, 364, 1852. 

 Pterophorus canalis Walker, List Lep. Ins. B. M. XXX, 944, 1864. 

 Mimcseoptilus scmicostatus Zeller, Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wicn. XXIII, 32i, 1873. 

 XStenoplilia semicostata Fernald, Smith's List Lep. N. A. 87, 1891. 



Id., Pter. N. A. 50, 1898. 



Id., Bull. 52 U. S. N. M. 447, 1902. 



Meyrick, Gen. Ins. C, 19, 1910. 



Id., Wagner's Lep. Cat. pars 17, 30, 1913. 



Barnes & McDunnough, Check List 151, 1917. 



