NO. 1140. NORTH AMERICAN NOCTUIDAE— SMITH AND DYAR. 81 



0.9 mm. Body white, warts I to III black, the rest pale, pointed conic, 

 with a crown of liairs ; all the body thickly covered with short second- 

 ary hairs enlarged at the tips. Tubercles I and II on joint 12 form a 

 square. Dorsum broadly streaked with dark brown, cut by dorsal and 

 subdorsal white lines. Hair black and white, even some of the second- 

 ary ones black. Warts normal, IV rather small, all nearly in a single 

 transverse line. 



Stage IV. — Head black, a geminate white spot at apex of clypeus 

 and white streaks on the sides; apices of lobes jjointed, i)ale brown; 

 width, 1.4 mm. Body whitish as before; dorsal and subdorsal lines 

 white, distinct ; sides shaded with brownish, joint 13 pale. Secondary 

 hairs short, club-shaped. Tubercles actually pale, but more or less 

 closely ringed with dusky brown. Later a broad faint reddish i^atch 

 covers tubercles I, II on joints of abdomen. 



Stage V. — Head bilobed, black, dark red on the apices of the lobes ; 

 width, 2.5 mm. Body dull purplish, dorsal line pale, shading into 

 reddish in the center of each segment around tubercles I and II; sub- 

 dorsal space purple; subdorsal line white, bordered below with purple; 

 a faint reddish stigmata! line. Warts black, I and II containing pale 

 rings, joint 12 nearly all black dorsally. Thoracic feet and leg j^lates 

 black. Hair black dorsally, white subventrally, the secondary ones 

 much reduced, short, fine, black, not evident with a lens, pointed tipped, 

 numerous, but long and white subventrally. Cervical shield black, 

 tubercles pale. 



Stage YI, — Head large, slightly bilobed; median suture deep before 

 the vertex, but shallow behind; flat in front; blackish mahogany red, 

 shining, darker below; clypeus black, with the sutures purplish; sides 

 posteriorly mottled with pale; width, 3.5 to 3.8 mm. Body purplish or 

 flesh color, of even width, joint 12 enlarged dorsally in a rounded quad- 

 rate elevation which bears tubercles I and II on the corners and pul- 

 sates centrally. Warts slight, consisting of an aggregation of three 

 to ten i)iliferous tubercles with a slightly enlarged common base; IV 

 rather small. Hair thin, long, reddish, with a few short, j)ale secondary 

 ones subventrally, but the secondary coating in general nearly absent. 

 The lilac color of the body shades into blackish subventrally. Dor- 

 sally a broad blackish band, marked with a series of black patches on 

 joints 5 to 11, each throwing out a lateral spur which curves around 

 wart II, and containing the pale tubeicles I and two red spots situated 

 in the dorsal line. Sometimes the red spots are connected into a single 

 hourglass-shaped spot. The hump on joint 12 is uniformly black. 

 Tubercle I shining blue-black at base; II in a small yellowish white 

 patch. A faint lateral black line above tubercle III. Spiracles black 

 with white center. Length, 25 mm. 



Cocoon. — A thin web spun in the earth or "covered with a leaf." 

 (Harris.) 



Pupa. — Light brown, abdomen tapering, the segments rather coarsely 

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