SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT 



PsYCHOJiORPHA EPiMENis, Drury — Larva. — General appearance bluish. The 

 oTound-color is, howevfr, pure white, and the apparent bluish cast is entirely owing to 

 the ocular delusion produced by the white with the transverse black bands as in Alypia 

 ocfomaculata. Transversely banded with four black stripes to each joint, the third and 

 fourth being usually rather wider apart than the other two, and diverging at the lower 

 sides, where they make room for two more or letis conspicuous dark spots placed one 

 below the other; the third on some of the middle joints is frequently broken, with an 

 anterior curve, just above stigmata, and on joints 2 and 3 it is twice as thick as the rest. 

 Cervical shield, hump on joint 11, anal plate, legs and venter, dull pale orange. Joint 1 

 with about 14 large shiny piliferous black spots, 8 of which form two rows on the cervi- 

 cal shield (those in the anterior row being largest and farthest apart,) and six of which 

 are lateral, namely, three each side, with more or less distinct dusky marks between 

 and in front of them. The spots on the hump are usually placed as at Figure 20, c, but 

 vary very much, though the four principal ones on the top are generally placed in a 

 square. The anal plate is marked with 8 such spots, very much as in the cervical 

 shield, but smaller. The tips of the thoracic legs are black, and the other legs and 

 venter are also spotted. Head gamboge-yellow, inclining to orange, with S principal 

 and other minor black piliferous spots. The ordinary piliferous spots are small, and 

 except two dorsal ones which are in the white space between the second and third 

 bands, they are not easily detected. There are a ftw very minute pale lateral specks in 

 the first and second pale bands. The hairs are pale and not generally longer than the 

 spots from which they originate. The stigmata are also quite small and round. Venter 

 pale, with dark mottlings and rows of spots on the legjoints. The abdominal prolegs 

 decrease in size from the last to the first pair, and the larva curves the thoracic 

 joints and is a half-looper, especially when young. Average length about one inch. 

 Described from numerous specimens. 



Chrysalis.— A.\ersige length 0.37 inch ; reddish-brown ; rugose, especially on dor- 

 sum of abdominal joints, but distinguished principally by the truncated apex, which 

 has a large horizontally-compressed, ear-like, horny projection at each upper and 

 outer edge. — 3rd Rep. p. 64. 



2. THE BEAUTIFUL WOOD ^YWYR—Eudryas grata, Fabr. 



(Ord. Lepidoptera ; Fam. Zyg.enid^e.) 



This worm (Fig. 22, a) may at once be distinguished from the fore- 

 going by having six black stripes to each joint [h) instead of four, by 



the ground-color being slightly bluish, 

 liifM €'^^kveKn TOl'illW/MlfS the middle of each joint being orange, 

 f!jril3 ^.Mfflf'li-il^fef^^'^^ and the black spots being more nu- 



merous. It feeds on the Virginia 

 Creeper as well as on the Grape-vine, 

 hiding on the underside of the leaves 

 when at rest, but not drawing them 

 laiged joiut, side view; c, cervical shield together With web. On the authority 



IVom behind; d, anal hump from behind; /■ t\t /i t "D„.„i^„ ^e t~\.^^v.^^ T14"~ 



e,/, top and side views of egg. ' of Mr. (jT. J. Bowles, ot Q.uebec, Mr. 



William Saunders, of London, Ont., gives, also, as one of its food- 

 plants, the Hop-vine.* It is most numerous in late summer and in fall 



♦First Ann. Hep. on the Noxious lus. of Out., p. 160. 



