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Description of Mature Larva. 

 Length 21 mm. = .84 inch. General color dirty white, often with a red- 

 dish brown tinge on dorsum, sometimes forming two broad brownish bands. 

 Head luteous, smooth shining, sparsely set with hair, maculate with small red- 

 brown dots which sometimes cover nearly the entire head, but more usually 

 make a triangular blotch on the vertex and a lateral oblique band. The cer- 

 vical shield is like the head, and is similarly maculate with brown. Sometimes 

 the markings are faint and scarcely noticeable, and sometimes they form a 

 distinct central mark with margins of shield also brown. The following seo;- 

 ments to the 12th have each four obvious smooth piliferous spots, scarcely 

 tubercles, each bearing a single hair. They are all on the anterior part of 

 the segment, one on each side of the middle, the other just above the stigmata. 

 On segments 8 to 11 are two small, smooth dots, bearing each a single hair 

 on the posterior part of the segment. Segment 12 has a smooth square in 

 the centre bearing two hairs, and a round, smooth spot each side. Segment 

 13 is like 12, save that the spots are much reduced, and there is an oval anal 

 shield, the posterior edge of which is roughened. The legs are whitish, pro- 

 legs with a complete circle of hooks. In general form the larva is slightly 

 depressed, and at first sight resembles a noctuid more nearly than a pyralid. 



The larva spins a rather flattened cocoon of a quite dense tex- 

 ture inside the stem and changes to a blackish brown pupa about .56 

 inches ^ 14 mm. in length. The pupa is quite slender compared 

 with the larva, the wing cases long, the abdominal segments trans- 

 versely wrinkled. 



The duration of the pupa stage is short, not exceeding ten days 

 and probably less. 



On the occasion of a collecting trip to the sea-shore by Mr. 

 Schwarz, Mr. Wenzel and ye editor, Mr. Wenzel suggested that it 

 might be a good idea in order to promote good feeling and social 

 intercourse among the collectors of New York, Philadelphia and 

 intermediate points, to arrange for a field meeting at some central 

 point. The suggestion was well received, and at a recent meeting 

 of the Feltman Collecting Social of Philadelphia, ye editor was re- 

 quested to present the matter to the Brooklyn Entomological So- 

 ciety and to the Newark Entomological Society. The latter society 

 at their last meeting in February acted upon the suggestion, appoint- 

 ing Mr. Machesney and ye editor a committee to confer with com- 

 mittees from the other societies, and to arrange the necessary de- 

 tails. The Brooklyn Entomological Society, likewise took favorable 

 action at their March meeting, appointing Mr. Roberts and ye editor 

 as the committee. The Feltman Club appointed as its representa- 

 tives Messrs. Wenzel and Dr. Castle. In an informal way the com- 

 mittee has considered dates and localities, the former being rather 

 definitely set as July 4th, while the locality is still somewhat indefi- 

 nite. It is the desire of the committee to get together at this field 

 meeting as many of the entomologists and collectors as possible, in 

 order that they may become personally acquainted, and all, whether 

 members of the vSocieties named or not, are heartily invited to join. 

 Full particulars will be published in the June number of Ent. Amer. 

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