2G2 PSYCHE. 



[October, igoi 



Monomoriiim pliaraonis L. Mvrmica rubra var. sabuleta Meiinert. 



Solenopsis molesta Sai-. " scabrinodis var. schencki Em. 



Plieidole pilifera Rog. Tetramoriiini caespitiim L. 



Stenamma brevicorne Mavr. Cremaslogaster liiieolata Sav. 



Aphaeiiogaster tennesseensis Mavr. 



" fulva Rog. 



M\iinica rubra L,, var. sulcinodoides Em. 



" " subsp. scabrinodis Nvl. Strumigenys sp. 



Tribe Cryptoccridtte. 



LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOMETRIDAE.— XXVI. 



BY I[..\RR[Sl)N O. DYAR, WA.SHINGTON, D. C. 



Ahopliila poiitetaria Ilarr. {iiii/iiiiii;a/ii with liulhous tips, most distinrt on tlie bod^'. 



Pack.). Tiiis injurious ]ar\;i has lioen dc- Moderate, ratlier robust, not elongated, the 



scribed in a gener.-d way liy tlte principal central segments not longer than thick. Feet 



writers on economic entomology and its normal, moderately developed, but a very 



habits have been made known. Eggs were short, unused pair on joint 9 marked in black 



received at the Department of Agriculture like the plantae of the other abdominal feet, 



from W. R. Smith, liaving evidentlj passed Shields membranous; cervical shield divided' 



the winter. Tliey l]alclied April iSth and into two semicircular parts, the flat side 



were matured in May. Wild larvae have anteriorly, smoky, darker on the edges, bor- 



been found by mc as late as June 6th at Bell- dcred hy blackish tubercles; anal plate and 



port, N. ^■., feeding on oak and hickory. leg shields unmarked, faintly smoky. Body 



Tlie present larvae were fed on apple. greenish yellow, striped with smoky black- 



E<fg. Laid in a dense mass twice as long ish in broatl dorsal (reaching but not enelos- 



as broad, reaching half \yay around a twig. ing tubercles i and ii), broad subdorsal and a 



Subcylindrical, flattened, basal end a little broad shade below the subventral fold, dif- 



roundcd, slightly annularly bulging ; micro- fused ventrally. Tubercles distinct, rounded, 



pylar end truncate, liroadly rimmed, the cen- little elevated, black in pale rings. Thoracic 



ter elliptical, a little depressed with a niicro- feet pale, faintly sujoky. With growth the 



pylar depressed dot. Surface slightly shin- dark shades become fainter and the larva 



ing, obscurely reticulate, the truncate end looks green with obscure paler lines, 



irregularly shagreencd, sometimes dotdjly Stage II. Mead rounded, erect, slightly 



ringed. I^eaden gray, uniform for a single bilobed, flattened before; very pale green, 



egg, though the flat topped mass looks a immaculate or the lobes faintly gray shaded ; 



little mottled. Size .6X.55X.4 mm. width about .6 mm. Ocelli black, not large ; 



Stage I. Head round with full lobes, clypeus rather high. Body cylindrical, nor- 



hroadened abo\e, the mouth projecting, the mal, not elongated ; feet normal with a short, 



clypeus rather high, held nearly erect; pale unused pair on joint 9, which, however, bear 



luteous, the sutures narrowly and the pos- crochets; claspers pale. Tubercles slightly 



terior rim of lobes and mouth brown ; ocelli elevated but concolorous, not contrasted ; 



black ; width .3 mm. Setae short and pale setae short, pale. Green with scarcely paler 



