DESCRIPTIVE. 7 



then bent ontwanls, slightly incnrveil ;it iliseal fold, obliqne below vein i and 

 inonrved at snbniedian fold; subterniinal line whitish, defined on inner side 

 by a triangular brown patch from costa to vein 6, angled inwards above vein 

 5, then outwards to tei'uien at vein 4 and defined by an oblique blackish mark 

 on inner side, then indistinct, oblique, waved, with a sinuous whitish line 

 before it; the termen red-brown with white line before it slightly defined by 

 black on inner side, incurved from vein 7 to 4 where it angles outwards, then 

 waved; cilia red-brown with yellowish line at base. Hind wing ochreous whit- 

 ii^h tinged with red-brown especially on terminal area ; a slight brown dis- 

 coidal bar; cilia whitish; the underside whitish, the costal area tinged with 

 ochreous and slightly irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal bar, postmediau 

 line bent outwards below costa, then crenulate, traces of a diffused subterniinal 

 line, three small black spots on termen below apex defined by whitish on inner 

 side. 



9 . Ciround-color much darker red-brown. 



The synonymy is as follows: 



Eriopus floridensis Guenee. Noct., vol. 2, p. 292 (1852) ; Smith. Cat. Noct. 

 X. Amer.. p. 309. 

 Eriopus elegantuliis Herrich-Schaeffer. Corresp.-Blatt. zool. min. Xer. 



Regens. 1868, p. 117. 

 Cdlldpistria floridensis Guenee (auct.). 



THE LARVA. 



The larva (see fig. 1) is slender, with forelegs and prolegs normal 

 and well developed. The head is small, wider than long, greenish 

 in life, or pale yelloAv in inflated specimens, with the V-mark strongly 

 marked. While this species is very variable in general color, there 

 is one characteristic mark which extends transversel.y across the 

 anterior border of the thorax in a blackish, line and abruptly back- 

 ward under the spiracles to the second thoracic segment, and some- 

 times nearly to the anal segment. The thoracic plate is about twice 

 as wide as long, and not very strongly marked. 



The general color varies from yellow to bright green to dark, 

 nearly black. In the palest form the thoracic border may extend 

 nearly to the third j' int of the thorax and then cease, or reappear in 

 short, longitudinal dashes just below each spiracle. In the forms 

 which are a little darker these lines are more pronounced, and simi- 

 lar transverse dashes mark the dorsal surface of the last three ab- 

 dominal segments. In the more strongly marked form, shown in 

 the figure at the left, these transverse bands are of a maroon color 

 and very conspicuous. In most forms, and especially in the dark 

 ones, one of which is shoiwn at the right in the figure, there is a 

 conspicuous longitudinal white line just above the stigmata or spira- 

 cles. This is almost lacking in the entirely grown forms. These 

 two extreme color variants are so different that if observed sepa- 

 rately they would not naturally be associated with the same insect, 

 the last form presenting a decidedly velvety appearance. 



The length is If inch (33 mm.) and the width 0.2 inch (-1 mm.). 



