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Gypsochroa sitellata (Gn.)= Philereme albosignata Pack.; Jones.* 
Plate xeviil, figure 9. 
Both pairs of wings elaborately variegated and mottled with dark 
brown and pale buff or brownish yellow; costal margin of fore wings 
with alternate irregular spots of the two colors ; an indistinct band 
of the lighter color ; a narrow, distal, marginal line of alternating 
blackish brown and white spots; body colored like the wings. 
Expanse 30™™, or 1.25 inches. The larva, which feeds on Pisonia 
aculeata (t. Dyar), in Florida, is green mottled with irregular lines 
and spots of darker yellowish green and specked with blackish. 
Melon-moth; Melon-worm. (Diaphana hyalinata L.= Margaronia 
hyalinata= Eudioptis hyalinata in Geddes.\+ Figure 136. 
This moth is a beautiful insect, with shining white wings, bor- 
dered with black; the abdomen is tufted at tip with buff, edged 
with black and white. The young larve eat the leaves of melons, 
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squashes, and cucumbers; older ones burrow in the stalks and fruit. 
a] ) ; 
137 
Figure 136.—Melon-moth ; a, imago, nat. size; b, larva. Figure 137.—Cucum- 
ber-moth ; Pickle-worm (Diaphana nitidalis}; a, imago, nat. size; b, larva 
and its burrow in a young cucumber. Both from Webster’s International 
Dictionary ; after Saunders. 
Mature larve are translucent yellowish green, with scattered hairs; 
length, 30™™. It is often very injurious in the southern United 
States. Recorded by Jones in 1876 as abundant. Oct., L. Mowbray. 
Pickle-worm or Cucumber-moth (Diaphana nitidalis= Marga- 
ronia, or Hudioptis, nitidalis (Cram.), fig. 137, whose larva bores in 
* Mr. H. G. Dyar has given me the following synonymy: Gypsochroa sitellata 
Gn.)=hesitata Gu.; Dyar, Psyche, ix, p. 59, 1900 (life history) =impauperata 
Walk.=Philereme albosignata Pack.; Jones, 1876. 
+ Mr. H. G. Dyar gives me the following additional names for this species : 
Botys lucernalis Hubn.; Jones ; marginalis Stoll.; hyalinatalis Guen. 
