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of a broad, lighter brown shading along each side of the median line of the meso- and 

 meta-thorax and first abdominal segment. Piliferous warts small, black and project- 

 ing. Stigmata yellow, with narrow black annulus. Behind the two first abdominal 

 stigmata there is a dull black patch, that behind the second being largest. The ver- 

 tex of the head is bilobed and the lobes rounded at tip. Color of the head dark 

 cherry-brown, the tij} of the lobes lighter. The lower margin of the head and of the 

 clypens somewhat whitish. Its surface is quite smooth, though there are some very 

 delicate transverse wrinkles. 



The second larva measures 1^ inches in length, and is quite pale gray, with more 

 or less distinct, irregular blackish lines and spots. A very fine black line borders 

 each side of the two posterior thoracic and first abdominal segments, whilst on the 

 other segments this line borders a more or less elongated, lozenge-shaped, paler gray, 

 medio-dorsal space. The piliferous warts are of the color of the body, with black 

 tips. Stigmata whitish, with black annulns. The dull black patch is only present 

 behind the second stigma. Head coucolorous with body ; the two lobes are marked 

 in front with a transverse, dark cherry-brown band. 



The third larva is about If inches in length, and very similar to the second one in 

 coloration, though the color of the middle of the body is somewhat more purplish. 

 On each of the two posterior thoracic and first abdominal segments is a paler gray 

 triangular spot, a somewhat squarish, gray spot on the fifth and sixth abdominal 

 segments, and on each side of the median line on the eighth segments is an oblique 

 blackish line, both of which meet posteriorly on the median line. The purplish 

 stripes of the lobes of the head are present. (Riley's unpublished notes.) 



Pupa. — Pale mahogany-brown ; cremaster very long and sharp, straight, with no 

 lateral setae. (Described from a broken specimen). 



Moth. — It may be recognized by the deeply scalloped wings, and the large head, 

 which is rather swollen in front. It is whitish gray, the wings clear, not bordered 

 with brown. The fore wings with two distinct, heavy, black lines, the inner very 

 near the base of the wing, regularly curved, a little pointed on the costa. Outer line 

 bent at right angles on the basal third of the first median vein, the line thence going 

 straight to the costa, though zigzag in its course ; from the rectangular bend, the line 

 follows a course snbparallel to the median line, where it again turns rectangularly, 

 ending on the middle of the inner edge of the wing. An inner reddish-brown line is 

 parallel and near it below the median vein, and above passes just within the faint 

 discal dot. Beyond this line the wing is speckled with transverse short, linear spots. 

 A scalloped marginal, distinct black line. Expanse of wings, 1.80 to 1.90 inches. 



2li3. Eubifja quernaria (Abbot and Smith). 



Guenee states on the authority of Abbot's drawing that the cater- 

 pillar of this moth lives in April and May, in Georgia, on a species of 

 Qmrcus. In the manuscript drawing of Abbot's in the library of the 

 Boston Society of Natural History the food-plant drawn is Cratcegus 

 australis T. and G. 



Larva. — Body stouter and shorter than in the larva of Amphldasis cognataria. 

 Head angular; protboracic segments swollen ; a tubercle on the back of the third, 

 the lower part of the side of the first, and on the back of the penultimate segment. 

 The body is, in the painting, colored slate-gray, with irregular dark spots and longi- 

 tudinal slashes. 



Moth. — Female. Body stout, abdomen thick, with a dorsal row of four large tufts, 

 the fourth white, the others dark. Antennae black. Head in front and palpi black- 

 brown ; vertex white, rounded behind by a black thread-line; thorax white, with 

 two black spots in the center, and spotted with black posteriorly. Abdomen white 

 on the outer third, with a white interrupted line on each segment, spotted thickly 



