172 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



becoming browu ou the outer angle of the frout edge of the wing and paler toward 

 the hinder and inner angle. The under surface of the wings is much paler than the 

 upper. The body ia dark brown; its hinder portion banded with lines of a paler 

 hue. Expanse of wings, If inches. (Saunders.) 



232. Taniocampa incerta Hnfn. {Orihosia instabilia Fitch). 



Professor Riley has fouud, feeding on the oak, small whitish larvae, 

 with a yellow-browQ head aud a row of red spots oq each side of th& 

 body. One folded a leaf within which it spun a loose, white silken 

 web, open at both ends. It transformed within this, but deserted it 

 and entered the ground August 14. It also feeds ou the hickory and 

 sassafras. (Unpublished notes.) 



233. Jodia rufago Hiibu. 



Professor Riley states that this is one of the early Noctuids, speci- 

 mens of which were collected on sugar at Washington April 15, 1884, 

 aud commenced to deposit their eggs the following day. The eggs are 

 yellowish-white, globular, and finely ribbed. They hatch in about seven 

 days, and the young larvte commence to feed at once on the leaves of 

 cherry and oak. They are yellowish- white, with a pale yellow head and 

 black piliferous warts. They molt at intervals of three to four days, 

 the last stage lasting about ten days, when, by the end of May, all 

 enter the ground for transformation, apparently not appearing as moths 

 before the following spring. (Unpublished notes.) 



234. Panopoda carneicosta Guen. 



Larv3B of this species were found August 25, 1884, in Virginia, feed- 

 ing on the oak, and a moth issued September 23. The same specie* 

 was also found at Atlanta, Ga. 



Larva. — The full-grown larva is about 42'"™ in length, rather slender, of a dark 

 green color, with orange-yellow subdorsal line, and an oblique, fine, yellow line each 

 side of each segment. (Riley'.s unpublished notes.) 



Moth. — Wings rounded, entire ; of a violet-ash color, with the outer margin washed 

 with browu, and an indistinct submarginal series of white points, shaded with black- 

 ish or reddish. Fore wings with three distinct brown lines; the extrabasilar straight; 

 the extradiscal sinuous, curved, and the median diffuse line straight, passing beyond 

 the reniforra dot, which is black, very distinct, L-shaped, the lower branch of which 

 is prolonged to a point under the orbicular, which is reduced to a black dot. Hind 

 wings with a scarcely visible extradiscal line. Wings beneath gray, powdered with, 

 reddish, not spotted or banded. Prothorax reddish brown. Expanse of wings 46""'". 

 (Guen^e.) 



235. Panopoda rufimargo Hiibn. 



This moth has been bred from the oak by Mr. R. Thaxter {Psyche ii, 35). 



Moth. — Wings gray powdered with dark brown; the fore wings with two medi.an 

 lines very rambling {^cart^ea), almost parallel, very wavy, but not toothed, fine and 

 continuous, rust-red, lined with a yellow thread. The hind wings with a single sim- 

 ilar line, starting from the anal angle, but disappearing two-thirds across the wings. 

 Fore wings with the costa rust-red and the orbicular spot reduced to a dot, the ren- 

 iforra being larger and tear-like. Expanse of wings 45™™. 



