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spiracles ; the band is irregularly edged above and below with dark brown. Some- 

 times a narrow white medio-ventral hairline is present, narrowly edged on each side 

 with dark brown, and inclosed by the same reddish-brown tint as along the back. 

 Length, 24 to 30""". 



Pupa. — Body green, becoming usually brown ; thorax green above, spotted with 

 brown, the wings and legs pea-green, with two subdorsal white stripes along the abdo- 

 men, and a lateral white stripe; beneath, four longitudinal brown stripes. The pupa 

 often becomes brown, and the wings slashed with light brown, the antennae and fore- 

 legs of the same color, while the middle and hind legs are white. The terminal spine 

 is rather slender, long, ending in two long, large, excurved hooks ; a pair of much 

 smaller ones at their base, and two pairs on the sides, i. e. one pair on the sides near the 

 base, and the other farther underneath. Length, 11 to 15™™. 



Moth. — With unusually broad, transparent wings, which are white or pale ash. 

 Head deep yellow. Forewings crossed by two black lines, the inner with four scal- 

 lops, the outer line sinuous, scalloped, with a great curve outward between the sub- 

 costal and the third median venule. Opposite tbe discal dots are three acute, smaller 

 scallops, all of equal size. Fringe whitish, distinctly checkered with black on the 

 ends of the venules. Hind wings with a scalloped outer line, often obsolete toward 

 the costal edge, varying in its distance from the outer edge ; beyond this line the 

 wing is darker than at the base. Expanse of wings, 33™™. Its range, so far as 

 known, is from Maine and Canada to the Middle States. 



108. Eufidonia notataria (Walk.). 



This moth is common in the Northern States in dry pine woods and 

 open fields with scattered pine bushes, in June and early in July. Its 

 flight is rather weak and vacillating, as in many geometrid moths. 

 The genus differs from both Ematurga and Fidonia in the presence of 

 six instead of five subcostal venules, the first being long and free. It 

 also differs in the long, somewhat swollen hind tibiae, and the unusually 

 short, rather stout tarsi. The moth is white, with brown spots and 

 bands, and with feathery antennae. Mr. L. W. Goodell has reared it 

 at Amherst, Mass., from caterpillars found on the white pine. He has 

 since sent me the following notes on this moth : 



I got the eggs of F. notataria, from a moth confined in a box. They were laid 

 July 3, hatched August 11 and 12, and pupated September 17 to 24. No cocoon was 

 made. The moths appeared May 25 to June 4. I have often found the larv£e in dif- 

 ferent stages of growth from the first of August to October. The larvse closely re- 

 semble the leaves of the pine on which they feed, and are difficult to find, but are 

 easily captured by beating the branches. I think it must be double brooded, though 

 I have never found the larvae of the first brood. I did not preserve any of the larvae, 

 which I much regret. 



Egg. — Oblong, covered with hexagonal depressions and bright green in color. 

 Length, 0.6™™; width, 0.3™™. Duration of egg-stage, twelve days. 



Young larva. —Length, 2™"' ; head twice as wide as the body, round and deep ocher 

 yellow ; body dull yellowish green, with a faint paler stigmatal stripe. 



Mature larva. — Body of uniform thickness, deep green, with a narrow subdorsal and 

 stigmatal white stripe, and a dorsal greenish-white hair line ; dorsal space pale green • 

 ventral space yellowish green. Head brownish green, with a lateral white stripe, 

 which is a continuation of the spiracular stripe of the body. Length at rest, 25 to 

 26™™ ; when crawling, 26 to 27™™ ; duration of larval stage thirty-five to forty days. 



Pupa. — Brown, the spaces between the segments and a dorsal line darker; wings 

 dark green. Subterranean. (L. W. Goodell.) 



