Eleventh Report of the State Entomologist 



137 



greenish-yellow, which is quite similar to that of E, nitidalis. The jaws 

 and surrounding mouth-parts are black ; from both sides of the head issue 

 some fine hairs; the stigmata are yellowish; the warty tubercles on the 

 segments are arranged as in E. 7iitidalis, only they are not so prominent 

 or black but green, and the hairs issuing therefrom are very fine and 

 almost invisible to the naked eye; the legs are the same in both species 

 (Ashmead, loc. cit.). 



The pupa is about seven-twelfths of an inch long, yellow-brown, darker 

 and tapering to a point at the tail. It is generally inclosed in a loosely 

 woven web in the folds of a leaf, though it has been found in the soft pulp 

 of the melon. 



The moths into which they develop have wings of a pearly iridescent 

 whiteness, except a narrow black border, and measure, when extended, 

 an inch across. Their legs ^. -j; 



and bodies present the same _^ ^"X^'j'^y^^ 



glistening whiteness, and 

 the abdomen terminates 

 in a curious moveable tuft 

 of white appendages like 

 feathers of a pretty buff 

 color, tipped with black 

 and white (Fig. 3). 



Guenee describes the 

 moth as follows : " Wings 

 of a beautiful pearly white 

 color; the superiors with a 

 broad costal band and a 

 border equally broad, the 

 inferiors with a border 

 gradually diminishing to- 

 ward the anal angle which 

 it does not reach, of a 

 shining brown color. The 

 costal band has two small 

 teeth at the place of the cellular spots. Anterior half of the thorax 

 and nearly the whole of the shoulder-cover, brown. Abdomen white, 

 more or less tinged with yellowish-brown in the female, with a large 

 shining-brown dorsal spot on the last segment : the anal brush formed 

 of shining scales, of a leaden-brown color, with some other scales of a 

 yellow-fawn at their base, arranged especially on each side." 



Fig. 3.— The melon-caterpillar and moth, Eudioptis 

 HVALiNATA. (From Comstock.) 



