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Pupa.—Of the usual Phycid appearance; rather slender, the abdominal tip blunt, 
with six long slender up-curved bristles. Length 9™™. 
Moth. (Fig. 4.)—1 male. Fore-wings long and narrow, stone-gray, with no reddish 
or brownish tints. Head, palpi, and body dark gray with white scales intermixed. 
Fore-wings dark and light gray; a broad basal 
light pitch; before the middle of the wing a white 
zigzag line composed of a costal and median scal- 
lop. A square whitish distal patch, and half way 
betweenit and the outer margin is anarrow white 
zigzag line inclosed on each side by a dark border, 
the line being deeply angulated three times. Edge 
of the wing next to the base of the fringe deep 
black, interrupted by narrow pale gray spots: 
Fringe dusky, with fine white scales. Legs 
banded with black and gray. Hind wings pale gray. Expanse of wings 22™™; 
length of body 10™™. (Identified by Prof. C. H. Fernald.) 
Fic. 4.—Moth of Spruce Cone-worm 
(enlarged, original). 
THE GREEN-STRIPED PHYCID WORM. 
(Meroptera pravella Gr.) 
This a common insect on the Willow, occurring at Brunswick, Me., 
August 20, and through the month. It spins a web on the under side 
of the leaf, and pupates from the 15th to 20th of September, the moth 
in confinement appearing (in the breeding cage at Providence) the end 
of May (the 25th-31st). The caterpillar, which is longitudinally striped 
with light and dark green with black slashes on each side of the head, 
varies Somewhat; in some there are only four slashes on the head, with 
no other markings. The moth differs from Phycis rubrifasciella on the 
Hickory in having no cross-band of raised scales, while the insect is 
much darker, and the palpi are twice as broad. 
DESCRIPTIVE.—Larva.—Body of the usual form, tapering from near the head to the 
end. Head of the usual size, not quite so broad as the prothoracic segment ; green, 
slashed vertically and mottled with large and small brown or jet-black spots. Pro- 
thoracic segment a little swollen; the shield not striped like the rest of the body. — 
Body with narrow alternating light and dark green stripes; brown along the back, 
and inclosing a large round green spot on each segment; the brown portion with 
three interrupted green lines, one median and two lateral. Piliferous dots minute, 
not conspicuous. Length, 15™™, 
Pupa.—Of the usual Phycid shape; mahogany-brown; end of the terminal apdom- 
inal spine smooth, shining, convex, and ending in a stout curved lateral spine on 
each side. Length 10™™, 
Moth.—Body and fore wings dark gray, with brick-red scales and bands. Palpi very 
broad, especially the second joint ; dark gray ; vertex of head light gray, with dark 
scales; antenne blackish. Prothoracice scales and shoulder tippets (patagia) dull 
brick-red ; middle (disk) of thorax gray. Fore wings dark, dusky gray, with scattered 
pale gray seales; base of wings dull brick-red; a broad, diffuse band of the same color 
crosses the basal fourth of the wing; on the outer fourth of the wings is a similar 
broad, diffuse, dull brick-red band, sending a diffuse longitudinal stripe towards the 
basal band; an incomplete transverse pale gray line, curved outward in the middle 
of the wing, borders the inside of the outer reddish band. Costal edge dusky, the 
reddish bands not reaching it. Fringe of the same dull slate-color as the hind wings. 
Expanse of wings, 20™™. (Identified by Prof. C. H. Fernald.) 
