190 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



Larva. — The body above is dark brown, with a slightly reddish tint, and patches 

 of a darker shade along the dorsal region, being the color of the twigs of its food- 

 plant. It remains in the pupa state about a week. 



Pupa. — Body rather stout, wing-covers reaching to the seventh abdominal ring, 

 counting from the end; the tip is acutely conical; anal spine large, acute, much 

 flattened from above dosvnward : bearing two large, curved spines, with two much 

 smaller, curved basal spines ; abdomen with scattered, acute spinules arising from 

 minute black tubercles; pale ash, minutely speckled with darker fine points, with a 

 dark dorsal line extending from the head to the end of the anal spine. Leugth 0.55 

 inch. 



Moth. — Thirty males and ten females. Palpi long. Fore wings foliate; outer edge 

 almost angular. Hind wings slightly scalloped. Body and wings of a uniform 

 ocherous-yellow ; palpi dark in front of the head, tipped with dark brown. Fore 

 wings uniformly ocherous ; a curved, basal, rust-brown line, denticulated on the 

 veins ; beyond, two parallel, more distinct, concolorous lines, the inner a little wavy, 

 directed obliquely to the inner edge; the outer makes aright angle in the submediaa 

 space, crosses the inner line, forming a broad triangular inclosure on the inner edge 

 of the wing; beyond is a broad space just beyond the middle of the wing, usually 

 filled in with a purplish-brown tint, disappearing before reaching the costal space ; 

 sometimes there are two central lines in this space, converging a little below the 

 median vein and forming large ringlets ; this mesial space is bounded externally by 

 a dark rust-brown line, which ends at the same distance from the base of the wing, 

 both on the costa and inner edge; in the first median space it forms a large, sharp 

 projection ; beyond is another concolorous line, which curves inward to where it is 

 usually (not always) interrupted by the projection of the other line, and thence goes 

 straight, though zigzag in its course, to the inner edge of the wing; a similarly 

 colored, more or less zigzag, oblique, apical line extends to the middle of the wing, 

 opposite the projection ; the edge beyond the lines either clear yellow or filled in 

 with lilac-brown ; a small discal dot. Hind wings clear, a little paler than the fore 

 wings, with a faint discal dot, sometimes absent; in the outer third of the wing 

 an angulated, faint, violet-brown line, edged externally with silver, a heavier, dif- 

 fuse, shorter, submarginal, dark brown, zigzag line, with a slight violet tinge; the 

 space between this and the wing suffused with violet-brown, extending only toward 

 the middle of the wing, or sometimes passing beyond the apex. Beneath the wings 

 are yellow ocherous, speckled, especially on the hind pair, with coarse, violet-brown 

 specks. Fore wings clear when covering the hind ones, with three costal spots, the 

 third in the middle of the costa; beyond the angulated outer line is reproduced ; 

 apical oblique line distinct, with a violet-brown cloud below. Hind wings with 

 three regularly scalloped lines; the margin of the wing broadly clouded with violet- 

 brown. Legs yellow ; joints tipped with violet-brown. Abdomen yellow, tinged 

 above with rust-brown. Expanse of wings, male 1.30 to 2.10, female 1.35 inches. 



266. Eupithecia miseridata Grote. 



June 3, 1876. — Found two larvje feeding on oak. Length about 0.63 of an inch, 

 of a yellowish color, with brown markings on the back much like arrow-heads with 

 the points directed towards the head; a brown line over the whole length of the 

 back and a short brown line each side just behind-the head, ending where the last pair 

 of thoracic legs commence. The larva changed to pupa June 12, without constructing 

 a cocoon, suspending itself by the point of the abdomen; it is also of a yellowish 

 color. The moth issued June 23. (Riley's unpublished notes.) 



The caterpillars of this widespread geometrid were common on the 

 liv^e oak at Crescent City, Fla., April 9 to 14. The larviie s])uu a slight 

 cocoon and pupated April 15, the moth emerging at Washington April 

 20. Another moth emerged in Providence April 30. In shape, the 



