November, 1902] 



PSYCHE. 



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salts: (No distinction noted from the 

 otiier tribe, Nemeobiini.) 



Subfamily LYCAENINAE. 



Butterfly : Labial palpi well developed, 

 porrect, half or more ot the middle joint 

 surpassing the face. Fore wings with 

 excessively brief, hardly perceptible 

 internal nervure ; hind wings channeled 

 on basal half to receive the abdomen, 

 without precostal nervure, the costal 

 nervure running nearly to the end of 

 costal margin. Fore tarsi of $ armed 

 abundantly beneath and at tip with 

 spines. Generally unspotted and with- 

 out bars above. Egg'- No converging 

 septae in the foveolae. Caterpillar at 

 birth : Body with chitinous dorsal shields 



of greater or less extent and distinctness 

 only on the first thoracic and last dorsal 

 segments; no substigmatal indurated 

 shields; series of chitinous annuli on 

 the sides of the body. Mature cater- 

 pillar: Body with rare exceptions (Feni- 

 eca) distinctly onisciform ; head relative- 

 ly small, being less, generally far less, 

 than half as broad as the middle of the 

 body, usually completely, always at least 

 partially retractile within the segment 

 behind it. Chrysalis : Short, plump, 

 rounded, and nowhere (except in Feni 

 seca) angulate, the abdomen rounded 

 and falling rapidly behind, (excepting in 

 Feniseca) without protuberant cremas- 

 ter ; body sparsely or densely clothed 

 with short hairs or other dermal appen- 

 dages. 



LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOMETRIDAE. — XXXVII. 



BY HARRISON G. DVAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Deilinia carnearia Ilulst. The ? type is 

 in the National Museum. A female before 

 me from which eggs were obtained, is not 

 like the type, the ground color of fore wings 

 being ashen, the lines thicker and more dif- 

 fuse, the one through th. discal dot wanting; 

 terminal gray space moro angularly bent and 

 edged within with blackish and carneous. 

 An exact mate to it (?) is in the Museum, 

 bred on Ceanothus in California by Mr. A. 

 Koebele. Others of Koebele"s specimens, of 

 which hardly two are alike, are nearer Hulst's 

 type and one $ matches it, except that the 

 terminal gray shade is obsolete. I collected 

 an equally variable series of moths with the 

 $ that laid the eggs. D. falcataria Pack, 

 and D. perpallidaria Grote are probably 



only varieties of this species; if so, the spe- 

 cies must be caWsA falcalaria. But I have 

 not examined the other types. 



Egg. — Elliptical, one end strongly de- 

 pressed, wedge shaped, the sides narrow but 

 not flattened ; micropylar end roundly trun- 

 cate. About iS longitudinal, parallel lines, 

 stopping sharply at the edge of the trunca- 

 tion, a little confused at the other end ; 

 slightly waved, narrow, raised, joined by neat 

 cross lines, similar, forming transversely 

 elongate parallelograms, alternating in suc- 

 cessive rows. Fine pores at the joinings of 

 these reticulations. Green, turning sordid 

 Crimson. Size .8 X .6 X -4 mm. Hatched 

 in six days. 



Stage I. — Head round, not bilobed, mouth 



