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;Utracted by light. It is quite rare and I the wings being somewhat narrower, the apex of 



has never been found except about the 

 Trumijet vine. 



Neither the egg nor the mode of ovipo- 

 sition have been observed, though Miss 

 Mary E. Murtfeldt, of Kirkwood, Mo., 

 who was the first to observe the larva, and 



primaries more rounded; by the median vein of 

 secondaries not being naked; by the pocliet at 

 the base of the front wings of the fj having the 

 opening less oblique and lacking the springs or 

 bristles inside (described in that genus as keep- 

 ing the pocket open), but more particularly by 

 the sculpture of the costal margin of the primar- 



has carefully searched for the eggs, believes ies, which is here irregularly undulate with four 

 that they are inserted under the cuticle of 

 the full-grown, green pod, as she has fre- 

 (|ucntly found on such, small blistery eleva- 

 tions, each containing what appeared to be 

 particles of the egg-shell, and concealing a 

 minute puncture in the pod through which 



indentions, deepest in the ', , two basal ones 

 about the middle of the wing in a rather broad 

 and shallow excavation, the third being slight 

 and the fourth, which is subterminal, still more 

 shallow, and inade between a subterminal bulg- 

 ing and the apex : the basal third of wing .is 

 strongly convex to shoulder. Antenna alike in 



the newly hatched 

 larva had evident- 

 ly entered. The 

 peculiarly flatten- 

 ed and spatulate 

 nature of the ovi- 

 positor rather con- 

 firms this observa- 

 tion. 



The moth is gray- 

 ish in color, — front 

 wings having pur- 

 plish-brown mark- 

 ings with a few or- 

 angt; spots and a 

 white dash at the 

 outer third of the 

 front or costal mar- 

 gin which is char- 

 acteristically wavy. 

 The female (Fig. 

 P52,/) is somewhat larger than the male 

 (Fig. 152, ,!,'■), and he is at once distin- 

 guished from her by having a curious 

 jiorket on the costal border at the base 

 of the front wings. 



The figures here used were made some 

 two years since while we were connected 

 with the Department of Agriiulture, and 

 uc are indebted to Commissioner LeOuc 

 for the electrotypes. 



CIVDONOPTERON N. GEN.* 

 Comes near CEctoperia Zellerf but at once dis- 

 tinguished by having distinct, black ocelli, by 



*KXvb<aV, wave, TtXtpoV, wing. 



■t ticrlriigc /iir Kenntni-ss der Nord.imericaniscnsen NaLhlfal- 

 Icr, etc., in Vcrk. K. K. zool.-bot. CJes. in Wien, Jahrgaiig, 

 ■875. P- 33' • 



LFig. 1-W.] 



both sexes, subcylin- 

 drical, with about 44 

 joints; tapering to tip; 

 labial palpi covered 

 with long porrect 

 scales above and be- 

 low, produced at up- 

 per middle and lower 

 ^ tip of second and both 

 above and beneath at 

 middle of terminal 

 joint and giving a lat- 

 erally compressed ap- 

 pearance ; the tirst 

 joint very short, re- 

 curved, second joint 

 nearly six times as 

 long, terminal joint 

 rather longer than ba- 

 sal; haustellum short 

 with scales at base; 



ClVDONOPTEKON tecum. t : «. part of pod broken so as to show rmviUor,. r.ol r^I Incio- 



Larva, nat. size; /-, larva, side view; c, head and cervical shield of "laXHiar) paipi insig- 



same; (/, cocoon from side ;<■, pupa, ventral view; y, hole from which nificant, in form of 

 moth issued ; ,^, male moth, e-xpanded ; /(, pocket on his front wing; A y. t 



/, female moth at rest — hair-lines showing nat. size (after Riley"). two broad DOttOnS 



covered with hair. 



Primaries with 13 marginals : Costal vein short, 

 stout, joining subcostal near the base and reach- 

 ing costa at the first indention ; subcostal very 

 stout at base giving off four branches which reach 

 costa successively at the 3d elevation, 3d in- 

 dention, 4th indention and apex, also with 

 one branch beneath ; disc complete ; discal vein 

 incurved, faint; median vein three-forked, the 

 first fork from middle of the wing ; submedian 

 extending to lower apex ; internal vein much 

 bent and anastomosing, just beyond its middle, 

 with the submedian by a faint oblique vein in 

 the direction of the apex. The space between the 

 rounded basal margin and the costal vein is ex- 

 cavated and ends at the shoulder with a stout 

 membranous swelling narrowing toward base and 

 obliquely docked distally, the space occupied on 

 costa being y% the length of the wing and twice 

 as great as on costal vein ; the docked end is 



