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JMature Larva. — Head rather light oraiige-red, the mouth paler and jaws 

 black. Palpi black, the base and two rings white. Scattered black hairs, 

 width of head 5 mm.; cervical spot and anal plates orange-red, with a few 

 short black hairs, liody black, with four lateral pale yellow lines, narrower 

 than the intervening spaces, the upper two replaced on joint 2 by the cervical 

 spot, and all somewhat broken on joint 13, barely reaching the anal plates. 

 Three ventral lines, one interrupted by the bases of the legs on each side, the 

 third in the center of the venter, interrupted on joint 13. The bases of the 

 legs are orange-red and also corresponding spots on the legless segments. 

 Thoracic feet black, abdominal with a black band outwardly, the anal feet 

 nearly all black; a number of rather long whitish hairs scattered over the body. 



Food-plant: Vaccuihini stamincutn. 



Datana floridana Graef 



Graef, Ikill. Brookl. Ent. Soc. vol. ii, p. 37. 

 Koebele Bull. Brookl. Ent. Soc. vol. iv, p. 21.* 



This is described as "dark brown, with a purpHsh flush" on 

 primaries. The third and fourth lines are obsolete, leaving but three 

 lines. This species is close to D. palmii, and seems to differ only in 

 the greater abundance of the brown scales, causing the fainter lines 

 to become lost and the purplish color to be less distinct. A specinien 

 kindly loaned me by Prof Lintner and labeled "from Elliot, Da- 

 tana floridana Graef, var. 9 N. York," cannot be this species, but 

 is D. pabnii. The lines are all present, the ground color is distinctly 

 of a lilac shade, and it only differs from my specimens oi pabnii in 

 being of a slightly duller shade and in having the secondaries more 

 heavily tinged with brown. The larvae appear to differ. Mr. 

 Koebele describes that of D. floridana as "black, with eleven par- 

 allel yellowish lines (he does not give their width ) ; the head, the 

 summit of the body segment, the anal coverings, and the summits 

 of the legs, deep mahogany red. ..." 



Mr. Beutenmiiller, in his table, gives the lines as wider than the 

 intervening spaces (in D. pabnii they are narrower, but not much 

 so). The larva is unknown to me. 



Datana modesta Beutenmiiller. 



lieut.. Psyche, vol. v, p. 299 (1890). 



This species is unknown to me. If the yellowish ocherous 

 patch, mentioned by the describer, prove a constant feature, as it 

 probably will, it-will serve as a good distinctive character. The larva 

 is unknown. 



Kissimmee, Fla. 



