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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Professor Needham bred the A g r a y 1 e a and sent me the 

 larva and cases. The metamorphoses of A g r a y 1 e a and many 

 other European forms have been described recently in an admira- 

 ble way by Herr A. J. Silfvenius of Helsingfors. 



Agraylea multipunctata Curt. 



McLachlan, Rev. & Synopsis, p.SUG, describes the species as 

 follows: 



Antennae blackish fuscous. Body blackish fuscous; abdomen 

 greenish in life; blackish in dry examples with pale lateral lines; 

 the ventral surface clothed with silky yellowish hairs. Head and 

 pronotum clothed with greyish yellow hairs. Legs subtestaceous 

 with fuscous femora; clothed with pale hairs. Anterior wings 

 ordinarily blackish, with numerous distinct golden-j'ellow mark- 

 ings, mostly forming spots, but usually there is also a long and 

 broad space near the apex of the costal margin, about two elon- 

 gate spaces on the inner margin, and two or three apical spots 

 extending into the fringes which are otherwise dark (but these 

 markings are very variable; individuals occur in which they are 

 entirely absent, the wings then being wholly blackish, or in which 

 they invade the whole wing, obliterating the dark ground and 

 causing the insect to appear pale cinereous). Posterior wings 

 cinereous grey, with concolorous, slightly iridescent fringes. 



In the (^ there appears to be a bilobed shining yellowish plate 

 under the margin of the last dorsal segment. Superior (interme- 

 diate?) appendages in the form of two contiguous yellowish 

 bands, very strongly curved downwards; from between them 

 escapes the penis, which is dark, straight, iipdirected, its apex 

 dilated and truncate. Inferior appendages, viewed ventrally, 

 very distant, upcurved, yellowish, subcylindrical, but they are 

 apparently connected with two upcurved contiguous median 

 processes, seen from the middle of the ventral margin, more slen- 

 der than the appendages and blackish at the tips; internally, on 

 either side of these, is a triangular piece. Lobe of the ante- 

 penultimate ventral segment long, fiatlcncd and adpressed dilated 

 gradually to the apex, w^hich is shallowly excised and narrowly 

 blackish ; the colour otherwise testaceous ; at the base of this lobe 

 is a subtriangular blunt tooth. 



In the $ the abdomen ends in a stout upcurved ovipositor, and 

 there is the usual small sharp tooth on the antepenultimate ven- 

 tral segment. 



Expanse 71/2-9 mm. 



