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segments they are orange, white above aud below. Segments 3, 4, and 5 are also pale 

 yellow green, the two latter swollen into a hump. The remaining segments are all 

 bluish green, covered with white dots, and with a darker dorsal line. On segments 

 B, C, 7, and 8 are oblique whitish bands, but ou the posterior segments these are lost 

 in a continuous line to the base of the caudal horn, which is bluish at the base, pale 

 green at the tip, aud white in the center. The anal segment is yellow green, as also 

 are the abdominal legs. The thoracic feet are green, with the sides orange red. 

 Previous to change the caterpillar assumes a purplish leaden hue, the dorsal and 

 lateral lines becoming blackish. One specimen is pinkish, with the four anterior 

 and the anal segment of a brownish cast, and with a dark dorsal stripe. The lateral 

 line is also brown. 



Pupa. — The pupa is purplish brown, with the pink tint over the whole surface 

 slightly mottled. Wing-cases also mottled with black, spaces between the segments 

 pitchy brown. (H. Edwards and Elliot.) 



Moth. — Expanse of wings from 2^ to 3 inches. The upper side of the head and 

 thorax is of a rust-red color, varying to a brownish red, with the tips of the patagijB 

 and a spot on the side of the thorax at the base of the forewings pale gray. The 

 abdomen is fawn-colored, and the segments are narrowly edged with pale yellowish. 

 The forewings are reddish brown with purplish reflections. The basal half is sprinkled 

 with grayish scales and crossed by four curved brownish lines, and there is a discal 

 dot of the same color. The outer part of the wing is of a darker reddish-brown 

 color and crossed by several indistinct paler lines, the inner edge being oblique and 

 straight. The terminal space is colored like the base of the wing. The hind wings 

 are rusty brown. The entire under side is pale rusty brown with indistinct terminal 

 bands on the wings and two faint cross lines on each. (Fernald.) 



2. Antispila nyssw/oliella Clem. 



The larva mines the leaves of Nyssa multiflora iu September. When 

 full fed the larva weaves an oval cocoon within the mine, and cutting 

 the two skins of the leaf into a corresponding form, permits it to fall 

 to the ground. There is thus left an oval hole in the deserted mine. 

 The imagos appear during the following May. 



Larva. — The head is dark brown ; first segment dark brownish ; body very pale 

 green, with dark atoms along the dorsum ; ventral surface with a line of two black 

 spots. After the last molting the first segment is black, aud the dorsal spots become 

 a black vascular line. 



Moth. — Head above dark brown. Face, labial palpi and forefeet shining yellowish 

 ocherous. Antenme dark brown ; basal joint yellowish ocherous. Forewings dark 

 brownwith a greenish reflection, and the base with a bright coppery hue. Near the 

 base is a rather broad, bright golden band, broadest ou the inner margin, where it 

 is nearest the base, and constricted at the fold of the wing ; a spot of the same hue 

 on the costa, at the apical third of the wing, and one on the inner margin, midway 

 between this and the band ; cilia somewhat cippery, and rather grayish at the inner 

 angle. Hind wings purple brown ; cilia grayish ocherous. (Clemens). 



The habits of this larva are like those of A. cornifolieUa. (Chambers.) 

 3. Nepticula nyssceella Clem. 



The larva makes a narrow tortuous mine in the leaves. Imago un- 

 known. (Chambers.) 



4. The sour gum scale. 



Chionaspis nyssee Comstock. 



The following description is taken from Professor Comstock's Report 

 for 1880, p. 316. It is figured on his pi. xvii, f. 4. 



