ign6] DYAR—LIFE HISTORIES OF XORTH AMERICAX TEOMETRIPAE 
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LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOMETRIDAE.— LXV. 
BY HARRISON G. DYAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. 
Eois rotimdopennata Packard. The moths differ a little from Packard's 
description as noted hy me ( Proc. F'. S. Nat. Mas.. \’ol. XXVH. ]>. 902-003, 
1904, I 
Egg. Elliptical, flattened above and below, sunken concave toward the 
depressed end, no truncation, the micropylar end full and rounded. Reticu- 
lations large, irregularly hexagonal, raised, sharp and smooth, smaller in the 
indentation. Cell areas reticular shagreened. Dead leaf brown, the whole of 
the antemicropylar flattening blackish brown, a less prominent shatle in the 
indentation; size ,6.x .45 x .35 mm. Laid more or less in rows ohliqtiely over- 
lapping, the brown end down, its color caused hy the brown mucilage with 
which the eggs are glued on. 
Stage L Head rounded, free, dark brownish black, not shining. Body 
long and slender, curled in S shape, the segments tinely annulate, elongated : 
dark brown ; a narrow, straight, distinct white dorsal line, a broader but less 
distinct substigmatal one ; joints ten to thirteen ])aler and with a white subdorstd 
line added. Thoracic feet blackish ; tubercles small, brown ; setae short, capitate, 
obscure. 
Stage //. Head squarish hilohed, the lobes slightly conically produced be- 
fore, dull brown-black with short, scale-like white setae; width .4 mm. Body 
small, slender, elongate, finely annulate, suhventral ridge narrowly prominent,' 
subdentate by the annulets. Dark vinous brown, almost black. A narrow white 
dorsal line, traces of a subdorsal one at the ends and a more distinct line on 
the suhventral fold, all dotted by the annulets. In dorsal view the segments 
are cuneiformly widened posteriorly. Tltoracic feet black, abdominal ones 
brown, the anal pair diluted anteriorly. Tubercles and seta; minute, the latter 
scale-like. 
Stage III. Head highly liilohed, the lobes subconic; lirown-black with sliort 
white setae; width .6 mm. Body moderately elongate, the se.gments cuneiform. 
