NORTH AMKinCAN NOCTUIDAE— SMITH AND DYAIL 137 



The anterior legs of the male are stout, the epiphysis small and inserted 

 at about the middle. In all essentials it is like alharufa and the 

 genitalia of the male are of the same type. 



LARVA. 



CoM.sTOfic, Man. Stud. Ins. (189:3), .308, (ig. 374 (hamamelis). 



EfKi. — Less than heniisi»hcrical, well leticuhited, the vertical ribs low 

 and rounded, the cross lines distinct; cells at the ai)ex without ribs, 

 very small at the mi(;ropyle; diameter, 0.8 nun.; height, 0.5 mm. 



Stafje 11. — Head whitish; Avidth, 0..55 mm. Body translucent, nearly 

 colorless, the food showing green. Warts normal, colorless, 1 to III 

 elongated, each wart with four to six colorless hairs, the central jirimi- 

 tive seta the hmgest. Warts I and II nearly in line on Joint VI. 



Htayc III. — Width of head, O.H mm. All nearly colorless whitish, 

 hairs all pale. Tubercles I to III distinctly elongated, with tlie hairs 

 in a crown at the vertex. A few very small secondary hairs. 



Stage IV. — Head whitish, with a trji(;e of brown mottlings on the 

 lobes; width, 1.4 mm. Body whitish or greenish, translucent, tuber- 

 cles I to 111 yellow with a single seta and crown of hairs, contrasting, 

 the rest whitish; several hairs on wart VI. A broken yellowish dorsal 

 line, a broken double lateral one over warts II and III and a narrow 

 straight stigmatal line. iSubventer and feet whitish. A few little 

 spine-like secondary hairs. 



Stage V. — Head pale whitish, faintly mottled with brown in front; 

 width, 2.2 mm. Body translucent whitish, with no marks below 

 wart II, or the bands of the preceding stage yellowish aiul interrupted. 

 Warts I and II, surrounded by a brown ring; a faint brown dorsal 

 shading. Tubercles with but one hair, except VI, which has several 

 hairs. Secondary hairs absent. 



Stage Vf. — Il.ead dull i)urplish red, pale whitish over the clypeus; 

 lower i)art and (central suture, the upper two-thirds' mottled with spots 

 comi)osed of grou])s of little whitish dots in clusters; width, 3.3 mm. 

 Body brown, pale whitish vcntrally: warts yeHow, single haired. A 

 series of large, rounded, oblicpie, pale yellow patches on joints 3 to 12, 

 covering warts I and II, tinted with orange and each extending a little 

 on to the next segment. Two latciral rows of similar spots, smaller and 

 interrupted, not oblifjue. Spiracles white with bhu^k borders. Later 

 the si)ots may become wholly suffused with red, becoming orange color. 

 The skin has a covering of microscopic ])ile, absent on the tubercles. 



Cocoon. — Composed " of bits of wood and grains of earth on or near 

 the surface" of the ground (Goodell). 



Pupa. — Light brown, shining, abdominal segments regularly tapering, 

 sparsely but distinctly punctured almost to the posterior border; wing 

 cases slightly grooved and shagreened. ('remaster rather prominent, 

 rounded, slightly flattened; dorsal hook small, slender, bent backward 



