41G 



PSYCHE. 



[October 1S99. 



double ventral line. The lower two of the 

 side lines are somewhat broken by large 

 white spots on the anterior portion of joints 

 6 and 7. Lines lost on the thorax. Other 

 examples are more heavily shaded with dark 

 brown so that the lines are broken, especially 

 centrally on the segments. 



Stage IV. Head flat before, sides and ver- 

 tex continuous and of even width, a slight 

 shallow notch. Face with an irregular pale 

 mark composed of a white clypeus and four 

 confluent dots, surrounded by a dark brown 

 border, dotted with white; sides and vertex 

 white, mottled with brown, especially in the 

 center of the side posteriorly and in vertical 

 notch; width about i. 5 mm. Body cylin- 

 drical with slight subventral ridge, thorax 

 somewhat smaller; anal plate large, trian- 

 gular, not cornified ; tubercle iii in a slightly 

 elevated black spot. Brown, finely streaked 

 longitudinally with white, intermixed with 

 a few black dots. An obscurely double, 

 blackish dorsal line, each side of which on 

 joints 6, 7 and 8 are two white dots, the 

 anterior one nearest the line. Thorax sub- 

 ventrally and a dot befoie the spiracle on 

 joint 5, an oblique subventral dash on joints 

 5 to 10 and joints 11 to 13 subventrally black. 

 All rather obscurely marked, brown, resem- 

 bling bark. During the stage the color pales 

 loan almost whitish brown making the white 

 linings obscure and the black dots prominent. 



Stage V. Head as before, the sides and 

 vertex pale, faintly marbled with pale lu- 

 teous; width about 2 mm. Body straight, 

 cylindrical, rather short and robust, smaller 

 than the head; a slight dorsal elevation on 

 joint 12 composed of the prominent tuber- 

 cles i ; anal plate and leg shields large. Pale 

 wood brown, speckled with black; i. e. the 

 tubercles and some irregular dots, besides a 

 narrow double dorsal line, black. The line 

 is pulverulent and fainter in the incisures. 

 A similar, browner ventral line. Feet pale; 

 a dark subventral shade on thorax. Setae 

 obscure; dorsal tubercles a little prominent. 



Stage VI. Head square, face flat, rounded. 



slightly narrowed above; broadly, shallowly 

 bilobed, equal in thickness above and below ; 

 clypeus high, the paraclypeal pieces reaching 

 the vertical notch; width 2.S mm. Color 

 pale wood brown, face strongly mottled with 

 dark brown around the margin ; clypeus and 

 an area on either side pale; sides faintly 

 marbled with pale brown, most distinctly on 

 vertex. Body cylindrical, rather robust, neck 

 slightly narrowed; smooth, tubercles i on 

 joint 12 produced; subventral fold slightly 

 prominent, waved; anal shields large, 

 rounded. Thoracic feet rather small, equal. 

 Pale wood brown, faintly mottled with red- 

 brown ; a narrow, geminate, pulverulent, 

 black dorsal line, slightly broadening into a 

 shade on joints 12 and 13. Medio-ventral 

 line pale and reddish; a broad, double, dif- 

 fuse, shaded subventral black band. Tuber- 

 cles and several dots in lateral region black, 

 spiracles black ringed; feet slightly lined 

 with black at base. Variation not marked. 

 The lateral dots may be faint or distinct, 

 rarely connected into a broad lateral shade, 

 bordered above by a waved subdorsal line and 

 reaching over lateral region to below sub- 

 ventral fold. The usual form is pale brown 

 with single dorsal and paired subventral 

 blackish bands; tubercles i of joint 12 conic- 

 ally produced. 



Cocoon a coarse net of brown silk between 

 leaves. The larvae refused oak, but fed 

 readily on persimmon and apple. Found at 

 Brookhaven, Long Island, N. Y., eggs June 

 loth, mature larvae Auirust loth. 



A NEW MELOID BEETLE PARASITIC 

 ON ANTHOPHORA. 



Leoiiia neome.xicaiia, n. sp. — Length about 

 II millim. Black, including legs and anten- 

 nae ; elytra fulvous. Form of L,. rileyi, 

 with a rather sparse black pubescence ; 

 mandibles stout, curved, entire, blunt at tip; 

 antennae stout, lo-jointed, first joint cam- 

 panulate, shorter and more abruptly swollen 



