778 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



Pupa. — Moderately slender, thorax spotted with brown, wings slashed and spotted 

 with brown ; abdomen with a dorsal and two lateral rows of irregular spots, and the 

 segments also surrounded by a circle of spots. Terminal spine moderately large, not 

 corrugated below, above coarsely pitted with more or less confluent punctures, the 

 «nd bearing two long, straight, stout bristles, a pair of small bristles on the upperside 

 near the end of the spine ; a small pair beneath, and a larger pair, one on each side. 

 Length, 13™™. 



The moth. — Smoky hyaline ash color, often whitish ; head ocheroua. Palpi rather 

 stout, ascending, passing a little beyond the front; third joint rather long, conical. 

 Antennae ocherous, ashen above, with long, delicate, fine, close-set, black pectina. 

 tions. Body pale cinereous, with an almost imperceptible ocherous tinge. Fore 

 w^ings with a basal, slightly curved, dark, diffuse line, which is especially marked 

 on the veins; discal dot distinct but diffuse, rather larger than in T. fiscellaria; 

 an outer, not very oblique, slightly sinuate, dusky line, sometimes angulated on the 

 first median venule in both wings; it is thickened on the venules, curving inward a 

 little toward the base ; the wings are rather thickly flaked with smoky strigaj, espe- 

 cially on the costa and outer edge. Hind wings without any discal dot ; the single 

 line a little curved, not reaching to the costa ; wings very transparent at the base. 

 Beneath, whitish, very transparent; the lines faintly appear; no discal dot; costa 

 tinged slightly with ocherous. Hind wings scarcely angulated, the angle being 

 almost obsolete. Expanse of wings, 38™™. 



This is a very variable species, in rubbed examples being unusually 

 pale transparent ashen, but dusky in fresh specimens. The lines are 

 arranged much as in E. fiscellaria, but where the wings are slightly 

 rubbed they are represented by a series of punctures on the venules. 

 The unusually long, filiform, closely set pectinations of the antennae, and 

 the granite-gray wings, with dusky lines, not tinged with ocherous, 

 will distinguish it from the other species. It varies greatly, the lines in 

 one female being twice as far apart as in another, and the outer line in 

 some being almost straight, in others a little bent. If I had had Mr. 

 Grote's types alone of male U. bibularia and female pellucidaria, I 

 should have regarded them as distinct; but, with the addition of other 

 specimens of both sexes, I have felt compelled to unite them, as the 

 species seems to be as variable as in T. fiscellaria. One Kentucky 

 female expands only SO™"". 



104. The pine measuring worm. 



Paraphia aubatomaria Guen6e. 



Order Lepidoptera ; family PHALiENiD^. 



Feeding on the pine, a brown measuring worm, the moth appearing June 24. 

 <( Saunders.) 



The caterpillar of this moth is not known farther than that its color 

 is brown. 



The moth is a delicate species with deeply serrated and angulated wings. The 

 present species differs from the others of the genus by its whitish color, being rarely 

 somewhat ocherous, while the base and outer edge of the fore wings are as pale as 

 the middle portion ; the under side of the wings are rather pale. The wings expand 

 1.30 to 1.70 inches. 



