NO. 1140. NORTH AMERICAN NOCTUIDAE— SMITH AND DYAR. 87 



green; a pale, broken, yellowish subdorsal line. "Warts concolorous; 

 hairs more numerous than before, more than one long one from each 

 wart, pale, except some of the long dorsal ones. In another specimen 

 a series of dorsal creamy white patches composed of a bar connecting 

 tubercles I reaching back on the sides to II and again connected by a 

 narrow line behind II. These are small on joints 3 and 4. large on 5 to 

 13, that on 12 with both transverse lines large. 



^taye IV. — Head bilobed, whitish, faintly brown mottled on the upper 

 part of the face; width, 1.8 mm. Body green, with a yellow subdorsal 

 line between tubercles I and II, divergent on the thorax. Hairs few, 

 black and white; warts concolorous, I and II forming a square on joint 

 12. A few fine secondary hairs laterally, seen under a half-inch object- 

 ive. Later the dorsal space becomes faintly touched with brown on 

 joints 2 to 12 between the yellow lines. In another specimen there 

 were white dorsal patches as before, but red centered, the transverse 

 bars broken by the red, the side parts fusing into the usual subdorsal 

 line. 



Stage V. — Head green, mottled with red brown on a white ground 

 over the apex of the lobes and face; clypeus green; width, 2.5 mm. 

 Body green, a red dorsal line on the narrow ridge like dorsal space 

 edged with yellow along warts II, reaching joint 13 and marked with 

 blackish on the thorax and joint 12. Hairs thin, dark dorsally, white 

 snbventrally, and supplemented by secondary ones. Later the color of 

 the head becomes yellowisli ; dorsal band brownish red, darker on 

 joints 3 to 5, broken by yellow in the incisures, obsolete on joint 2, 

 enlarged on 12 and reaching 13. 



Stage VI. — Head bilobed, shining black, with a red patch at the apex 

 of each lobe, slightly shagreened, tl»e coarse setae pale; width, 3.7 mm. 

 Body dull black, the warts (except I) pale brown, with central hair and 

 tiny crown of reddish hairs, the brownish setae resembling the rather 

 numerous secondary hairs. A dorsal bright red stripe on joints 3 to 11, 

 narrowly edged with velvety black, broken broadly in the incisures. 

 Joint 12 black on top, slightly elevated; feet pale. 



Another larva had but five stages, with the following widths of head: 

 .3, .5, 1, 2.2, 3.6 mm. 



Cocoon. — " Spun up above ground, covered with small fragments of 

 wood" (Riley). 



Food plants. — Wild cherry, fire cherry, choke cherry. 



ACRONYCTA HASTA Guen6e. 

 (Plates I, fig. 14; IV, fig. 2, adult; XVIII, fig. 30, leg; XX, fig. 13, male genitalia.) 



Acronycta hasia Guenke, Spec. Gen., Noct., 1852, I, p. 45.— Walker, Cat. Brit. 



Mu8., Het., 1856, IX, p. 54. 

 Apatela haata Grote, Papilio, 1883, III, p. 67. 

 Acronycta telum Giiknee, Spec. Gen., Noct,, 1852, I, p. 45.— Walker, Cat. Brit. 



Mu8., Het., 1856, IX, p. 54. 

 Apatela telum Grote, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., 1883, VI, p. 571. 



