January icjoo.] PSYCHE. 11 



Stage IV. Head i-ounded bilobed. full, the U. S. entomological coinmission are four 



pale wood brown, faintiv mottled with red de.scriptions, two of larvae on oak, and two 



blown, the upper tubercles black ; width 1.4 on pine and spruce. I have shown above 



ram. Bodv rather slender, smooth, pale that the pupa described (p. 777) as "• aemiiiu- 



greenish brown, faintly, finely, longitudin- dari'a" should be credited to felliiciilaria, 



ally lined with whitish, the tubercles rather and probably the pupa described. on p. 841 



broadly black marked. A subventral black- as "/err'/rfrtrm" belongs to the same, judging 



ish shade line posteriorly. The pale lines from 'the food plant. On p. 1S6 " fervi- 



are numerous, edged finely with dark brown, din/ii"i& described, possibly correctly: but 



crinkly and a little mottled, sotne of the more probably it is fisceUaria Gn.. as the 



edgings broader and blacker than the others. moths "reared from the live oak in Florida 



Stage V. Head whitish, mottled, dotted bv Dr. Riley "(/.<•. Mr. Koebele) are of that 



in patches with grav, tubei'cles and sutures species, and Abbot's locality is southern, 



of clypeus black ; width 1.7 mm. Body green- Following this is a description of " enttropi- 



ish white, slightly tinged with brown, a aria" but obviously incorrect, as it differs 



little lined and maibled with brownish and totally from Goodell's correct one, which is 



gray, as before ; tubercles black, setae pale. referred to, without comment on the marked 



Shields concolorous with the body. Vari- discrepancy. The description is taken from 



ation in color as in the ne.xt stage. the books of the Department of Agriculture 



Stage VI. Head rounded, full, slightly (uo. 3904), and llie bred moth before me 



bilobed, the clvpeus small, somewhat de- proves it to refer to fisceUaria Gn. 



pressed; width 2.2 mm Whitish green with The larvae of fellncidaria . atiiasiaria, 



gray dottings over the lobes, tubercles repre- fisceUaria {s.ni\ ferridaria also.') are alike 



sented by black spots. Body cylindrical, at maturity, within the normal range of 



smooth, uniform, colored as before. The variation, so that they cannot be distin- 



bred larvae were rather brightly colored. guished with certainty. As to the earlier 



Ground color pale, nearly all whitish green, stages, I am not yet fully informed; but 



the black dashes heavy subdorsally inter- hope to be able to bring out the characters 



segmentally ; orange shading on the cervical before this series of papers is closed. 



shield, and in the subdorsal pale line, which ^^^ ^^^^ LEoSi-v.-In Psyche, Oct., 



is the only distinct line. The orange sb.-id- ^g^^^ ^ ^^^ j discussed Leonia, and its ally 



ings are above the black dashes, which in ,, . -.i ^ u • • .1 4. .1 



= Hornia, without remembering that the name 



turn border the pale line below. Anal plate r ■ \ x. n „„„„.„ 



' ' Leonia was proposed bv tjrav many veais 



orange shaded: tubercles represented bv / o \ <■ <■ ht 11 t^i „„ 



" ' ■ ago (1840) for a genus of Mollusca. Ihere 



black spots. Another collected example . , ," •■ 1 . . 1 .i,„ 



^ _ '^ seems to be no alternative but to change the 



was uniformlv brownish, heavily mottled, ri 1 'j t i -n " 



-' ' name of ihe meloid Leonia, so I will propose 



only the subdorsal line, and a few streaks , \. .-. . r j- i. • 1 



to substitute Leoitidia. n. n. It is perhaps a 



showing the whitish green ground color. .. ,• » , 1 .1 •. • 1 j 



^ » » matter of taste whether it is regiirded as a 



Food flaiti oak. The larvae are colored ,. .■ . , <■ ij 



•^ distinct genus, or subgenus of Hornia. 



like the bark, and probably rest upon it. A T n A C k- II 

 single brood in the year, the winter p;issed 



as pupa. Larvae from Brookhaven. Long Correction of .vn Error. — In Psyche, 



Island, N.Y. Eggs, June 12th, mature larvae vol. vii, p. 252 (June, 1S95), I described an 



not till late September or October; the de- interesting Tineid larva, feeding on Rubus, 



velopment very slow. :is " Biitalis basilaris Zell, "depending upon 



The descriptions of the larvae of Therina the supposed accuracy of the determination 



are in some confusion. In the 5th report of made for me by Prof. C. H. Fernald. The 



