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?. The type of this species was a. S . I think the present 

 is the first descriptive notice of the other sex. The forewings are 

 greenish black, with metallic reflection, purplish at the posterior 

 margin. Hind wings dull black, opaque, except at the base, 

 which is more or less transparent. Fringes of both wings brown 

 black. Under side of wings wholly purplish black, nervules with 

 a greenish shade. Antennae and head dull black. Thorax green- 

 ish black, with the tegulae deep orange in front. Abdomen steel 

 black, with the 4th segment wholly deep orange. The "tails," so 

 characteristic of the 6 , are are wanting in this sex. The palpi 

 are deep orange below, bluish above. Legs and under side wholly 

 greenish black. 



Exp. wings 26 mm. 



2 ?. Georgia. H.K.Morrison. 



Types. Coll. E. L. Graef. F. Tepper. 



This singular form is certainly not congeneric with y^geria 

 acemi, AL.pyri, etc., the abdominal appendages of the <^, and the 

 opacity of the forewings serving to distinguish it. I propose for 

 it the generic name of SOSPITA. 



THE LIFE-HISTORY OF EUSTROTIA CARNEOLA, 



GUENEE. 

 By D. W. Coquillett. 



Egg. — Button-shaped, grooved vertically, pale yellowish 

 white ; in the centre of the upper side is a reddish dot, and a short 

 distance outside of this is a reddish circle ; transverse diameter 

 about y^ mm. 



Larva. — First stage. — Body green, marked with a subdorsal 

 white line and a stigmatal white stripe ; piliferous spots obsolete ; 

 head and venter green, unmarked ; sixteen legs ;* length 10 mm. 



Second stage. — Same as in the first, except that there is a 

 white dorsal line and the piliferous spots are white ; length 13 

 mm. 



Third and last stage. — Body green, sometimes tinged with 

 pink ; sutures of the segments sometimes yellow or brown ; a 

 white dorsaUine usually edged with black; a white subdorsal line 

 and a white stigmatal stripe ; subdorsal surface sometimes tinged 

 with black or purple ; spiracles white, ringed with brown or black ; 

 head and venter green, unmarked ; length 19 mm. 



*Dr. Packard, in his " Guide to tbe Study of Insects" (p. 316), erroneously says that the 

 larvae of Erastria {EusUotia) have only three pairs of abdominal legs. 



