[FLETCHER & GIBSON] SOME SPECIES OF CANADIAN LEPIDOPTERA 61 
on face slender and dark. Thoracic shield dark, brownish-green. Body 
im most specimens green, the U-shaped marks dark green. Dorsal 
stripe pale green, or yellowish green, margined as before. Lateral 
stripe blackish, or very dark green. Stigmatal band is now broken up 
and just above the spiracles there is a stripe of the same colour and size 
as the lateral stripe. The stigmatal band of yellowish white is still 
present (on segments 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 12 and 13, running to base of anal 
feet) and on segments 7, 8, 9, 10, the oblique dashes are large and con- 
tinue almost to base of abdominal feet. These dashes are greenish 
white. The markings on the body—streaks, shading, etc.—are all of 
a dark green. Spiracles white, ringed with black. In some specimens 
the body is of a reddish colour which is due to the pale portion of the 
skin being of a pinkish tinge, with dorsal stripe and stigmatal band 
almost of the same colour. Feet concolorous with venter; claspers of 
prolegs pinkish. 
Length of mature larva 38 to 40 mm. 
On the 4th September, a few of the larve entered the earth and 
the others buried on the 5th, 6th and 7th September. 
Pupa.—Length 17-19 mm., 6.5-7 mm. wide; colour chestnut brown, 
shining, wing cases and thorax slightly wrinkled; abdominal segments 
rather coarsely pitted. ‘Cremaster roughened, with two stout diverging 
spines. 
On 29th May, 1902, 4 of the moths emerged, and 3 others on 2nd 
June. 
XYLINA DISPOSITA, Morrison. 
Eggs obtained at Ottawa from a female moth taken in May, 1902; 
laid singly, and in clusters of from 3 to 20. 
Eqg.—Of a flattened dome shape; 0.6 mm. in diameter, 0.35 mm. 
high, with about 32 ribs, cross strie distinct. Colour at first pale 
yellowish, turning later to a crimson red, and before hatching to a 
blackish red. 
Stage I.—Length at first 2 mm. Head 0.3 mm. wide, blackish. 
Body at first dirty whitish, after feeding pale greenish. Skin smooth, 
shiny, under a lens finely pitted. Thoracic shield dull blackish. No 
markings on body. A faint pulsating dorsal vessel is visible. Tubercles 
inconspicuous, slightly paler than skin, dark in centre, each bearing a 
single short black hair. Feet concolorous with body. 
Stage II.—Length 4.2 mm. Head 0.5 mm. wide, rounded, whitish, 
ocelli black. Body pale green. Tubercles white, large, conspicuous, 
each bearing a short pale hair. A faint dorsal stripe is now present, also 
a more distinct lateral stripe, both white. There is also a pale whitish, 
Sec. IV., 1907. 4. 
