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"Lan-a: Length, 0.55 inch; diameter, 0.10 inch; form sub-cylindrical. 

 Color, when young, ding>--white, with a tinge of green, becoming at maturity 

 pale glaucous, often varying, especially in the late Fall brood, to dull salmon. 

 Dorsal hairs proceeding from prominent tubercles, and of two sizes in each tuft, 

 each of the shorter ones tipped with a minute pellucid bead of viscid fluid, to 

 which pollen and bits of leaves often adhere. Lateral ridge well defined. Pro- 

 legs long and narrow. When mature, the larva weaves a dense mat of silk, 

 upon which it extends itself, remaining quiescent for two or three days, the 

 dorsal surface acquiring, meanwhile, a translucent lilaceous hue, with three 

 greenish-white longitudinal stripes, of which the mediodorsal is most distinct 

 and continuous. 



"Pupa, with ventral surface closely appressed to the mat of silk, to which 

 the anal liooks are firmly attached. An upright or inverted horizontal position 

 seems to be preferred, although there is no thoracic band or other support for 

 the anterior part of the body. 



"Average length 0.45 ; diameter same as larva, tapering rather abruptly 

 from seventh abdominal segment backward. Wing sheaths narrow, free at 

 the blunt-tips. Dorsum with prominent subdorsal ridges. Color and markings 

 quite variable. In the spring brood commonly dull green, with indistinct yel- 

 low lateral stripes. In the Fall brood the dorsum is pale yellow, or flesh color, 

 with two fine indistinct mediodorsal lines of lilac color; sub-dorsal ridge pale, 

 inclining to lilac on outer side. In sub-dorsal space are two nearly continuous, 

 quite heavy, black or fuscous lines, separated by a broad, pale stripe, from two 

 narrow, interrupted, dark hnes, one beneath, the other, above stigmata. On 

 the thorax the dark stripes are represented by two slightly diverging dashes 

 on each side. Situated in the sub-dorsal ridge, at the posterior edge of each 

 segment, are a pair of small, geminate piliferous warts, each bearing a sparse 

 tuft of light sprangling hairs. The last larval skin, rolled into a little hairy ball, 

 is often supported over the back of the chrysalis, raised above it on the hairs 

 of the sub-dorsal ridges. The pupa is quite active and irritable, striking about 

 in all directions when meddled with." 



39. OiDAEMATOPHORUs VENAPUNCTUS Barnes & Lindsey. PI. XLV, 



fig. 19. PI. LIV, fig. 6. 

 Ocdciiiatoplwriis vcnapnncius Barnes & Lindsey, in Heinrich, Jn. Agr. Re- 

 search XX, 827, 1921. 

 ^Edcmatophorus vcnapunctus Heinrich, Jn, Agr. Research XX, 827, 1921 (biol.) 



The original description is as follows : 



"Head whitish ochreous between the antennae, elsewhere light brown. An- 

 tennae and palpi pale brownish ochreous, almost white, the latter short, oblique 

 or porrect. Thorax and legs of the same shade of pale brownish ochreous, the 

 fore and middle legs tinged with brown inside. Abdomen similar both above 

 and below, with a fine, brown, middorsal line. 



"Primaries concolorous with thorax, darker toward costa, especially in 

 first lobe, though this shade is scarcely evident in some specimens. Just before 



