December 1895.] 



PSYCHE. 



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previous note: .64, .S, i.o, 1.3, 1.6. 

 2.[, 2.6, 3.3 mm. The piesent larvae 

 exhibited .65, .8, i 3, 2.2, 3.3, thus 

 omitting every alternate stage after the 

 second. In my larva formerly described, 

 the last four measurements of the nor- 

 mal series were actually observed, and 

 the larva must have had as many as 

 seven stages, omitting normal iii, or 

 perhaps eight, including iii. It is prob- 

 able that in Dr. Packard's example but 

 two stages were omitted, although we 

 cannot say which, as lie does not give 

 us measurements of the head. Miss 

 Soule's was doubtless the same as my 

 last. 



I will not describe the egg and larval 

 stages in detail, as there is Init little to 

 add to the accounts already published. 

 The arrangement of the hairs may be 

 mentioned, as it is decidedly peculiar. 



There is no primitive first stage. On 

 hatching, the hairs are abundant, arising 

 from low, flat granular wart areas, 

 whose position is most difficult to deter- 

 mine positively, as they are obscuied bv 

 the hairs, and when the latter are 

 removed are difficult to distinguish, 

 being merely concolorous granular 



areas. After repeated observation, I 

 believe the accompanying cut represeirts 



Ap.itelodes torrefacta. 



their arrangement correctlv. The liairs 

 are represented as partly removed. On 

 the abdomen i, ii, iii normal, iv very 

 large and v small, vi large, the base of 

 the leg hairy. On the last two thoracic 

 segments three warts above the stigma- 

 tal wart, the middle one moved back 

 out of line with the others, stigmatal 

 and subventral warts normal. I could 

 not deti;rmine the exact period at which 

 the secondary hairs appeared : probably 

 in stage ii, though in my notes I state 

 "secondary hairs not seen, if present 

 can not distinguish them from those 

 bending over from the warts." In the 

 last stage, the secondary coating is well 

 developed. 



DEIDAMIA INSCRJPTA. 



On June 11 I found two larvae on a grape- 

 vine, and a few days later five more on 

 Ampelopsis (jititiquefolia. The record is 

 taken from the first two. 



Length \ inch. Head round, green, with 

 4 very faint yellow face-lines. Body bright 

 green, transversely striated with opaque 

 yellow. 3rd and 4th segments very slightly 

 enlarged, too slightly to be noticed except 



by an entomologist. From the outer face- 

 lines to the caudal horn extended subdorsal 

 lines of yellow, edged above with dark 

 green. A stigmatal yellow edge ran from 

 the first segment into the first oblique on 

 each side. There were eight yellow obliques 

 the eighth being under the caudal horn, and 

 running backward t'rom that. .\nal shield 

 edged with yellow. Caudal horn long, 

 slender, straight, black, rough. Feet yellow, 

 props green, venter plain green. 



