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Full-grown larva about 50 to 65 mm. in length, the thickness of an ordi- 

 nary goo8e-(]uill at the abdominal segments, tapering from the fourth seg- 

 ment to the head. The ornamentation consists of alternate green and 

 white longitudinal strijies, the dorsal stripe green, spotted with red, the red 

 spots, when the larva is in repose, sometimes forming a stripe. The head 

 is angular; front red, with a white or pinkish white border; the collar 

 green. Legs green, prolegs red. Last segment bordered with red. In 

 repose the liead appears to be set on the body at an angle of 50° or 60°, so 

 that a line drawn along the back to the tip of the head would be longer 

 than one drawn over the insertion of the legs. This larva bears a striking 

 resemblance, in shape, color, and manner of feeding, to the larva of the 

 European Achatea spreta Fab., as given in Curtis' Genera of Lisects, pi. 

 117, and it is noteworthy that the food-plant, pine, is the same for both 

 species. A. spreta tapers less, and has no red markings, but in other 

 respects is very similar, and one would like to know whether its attitude, 

 when not feeding, is like that of E. Harrisii, namely, stretched at full 

 length on the twig of its food [)lant. I took the larva in September, in 

 New Jersey. (IF. V. Andrews, October, 1876.) 



Elleina pineum. Descr., by Lintner, in Ent. Contr., i 

 (1873), 38. 



[Note. References to Roisdiival's work on the Sphiiigirlae (1874), which was not 

 obtained in tune for this issue, will be given in the continuation of this article.] 



Arctia arge. Brief descr., by Harris, in Ins. Inj. Veg., 346. 

 Fuller descr., by Harris, in Ent. Corr., 286-287; another, by 

 S. H. Peabody, in Can. Ent., vi (1874), 98. 



This moth is by no means rare, but 1 find iaw people acquaintsd with its 

 larva. Full grown it presents the following appearance : Length 38 to 

 45 mm.; cylindrical, that is, of about the same size from end to end. 

 Ground color dark brown, with a dorsal and two subdorsal longitudinal 

 lilac or brownish-pink stripes, the shade varying sometimes; dorsal stripe 

 the broadest. Two rows of short oblique lines in the region of the stig- 

 mata. Legs black; prolegs reddish-brown. Body sparsely haired; tlie 

 hairs brown, proceeding from eight tubercles on each segment; hairs about 

 the stigmata reddish-brown. The very small larva;, when first hatched, look 

 like a bundle of very long brown hairs. After the second moult the lines 

 appear distinctly, under a low power. Food-plants, Rumex and Plantago; 

 the former preferred. The eggs are white when deposited, and then pink- 

 ish; they hatched out in about ten days. (TF. V. Andretvs, Nov., 1876.) 



B. Pickman Mann. 



{To be continued.) 



