NO.1140. NORTH AMERICAN NOCTU IDA E— SMITH AND DYAR. 121 



LARVA. 



Le Baron, First Kept. 111. Stiitd Entoin., 1871, p. 52, — Marten, Trans. Dept. 

 Agr.,111., IWO, XVIII, p. i:{l.— CofiUiiJ.KTT, I'apilio, 18.81, 1, p. (i.— Saindkks, 

 Ins. Inj. Fruits, 1883, p. 166, figs. 174, 175. 



8ta<jc IT. — Head wliite with four bliu;k dots on osicli lobe, ()n(^ on tlie 

 side, one on tlie eye, and one beside the clypeus; width, (),(> mm. IJody 

 white with dark brown patches dorsally on joints 2, 5, 8-9, and 12. 

 Warts black; a narrow, white dorsal line. The Wiirts beai- a long- seta 

 and bushy crown of small hairs with <'nlarj.^e(l ends; a few secondary 

 hairs. Joint 1-5 with warts i and II in a s<iuare. 



tituge III. — Head wliite with black spots as before; lobes i)ointed; 

 width, 0,9 mm. Body white, the warts all black, ])ointed coni<- with 

 a crown of hairs, thickly covered with short secondary hairs with 

 enlar<;ed tips. Dorsum broadly streaked with dark brown, cut by 

 dorsal and subdorsal white lines. Hairs black ami white. 



Htiuje IV. — Head bilolx'd, whitish, a larj^-e mottled bhick ])atch below 

 the vertex divided centrally, one over the eye, and another close to it 

 beside the clypeus; width, 1,7 mm. Body greenish with a series of 

 dark dorsal segmentary ])atclies. Warts daik, th<»se on the sides nar- 

 rowly so. Primary and secondary hairs much as before. 



Sfafje V. — Head dotted with black down the face, cut across the mid- 

 dle by a i)ale whitish band; ai)ices of lobes ])ale bioun; width, li.rt mm. 

 Body green, a chocolate brown dorsal stri]>e reaching wart II, narrow 

 on joint 13, but reaching the anal plate, broadened on the cervical 

 shield. Hairs few, black and white. 



*S7«//e VI. — Head brown at the apices of the lobes, shading into pink- 

 ish below, mottled with black spots, especially on the front angles and 

 in a triangular i)atch on the ocelli, sides and labium nearly white; 

 width,.'}.? to 4 mm. Body higher than wide, joint 12 angularly ele- 

 vated, pointed; soft green, a narrow, rather faint, yellow subdorsal 

 line just below wart Jl borders a velvety, brownish black dorsal space, 

 narrowed at the incisures of joints 5 to 11 and a little at joint 12, con- 

 tinued very narrowly to the end of the body, wi<lened on the cervical 

 shield. Spiracles white with black rim. Ohispers of feet pinkish. 

 Warts low with only two or three hairs, I to III bla(;k, IV to VI pale, 

 only one hair from IV, many short ones from V and VI. Sonie pale 

 8e(;ondary hairs subventrally. The dorsal hairs arc long, though 

 sparse. 



Food plants. — (Sugar i)lum, apple, birch, jnountain ash. 



