NO. 1140. 



NORTH AMERICAN NOCTUIDAE— SMITH AND DTAR. 



183 



LARVA. 



Mei.siiki.mek, Harris's Corresp., 1869, p. 114.— Harris, Ent. Corr., 1809, p. 174, 

 fig. 25.— Packard, Guide, 1869, p. 304.— Goouiilk, Cau. Ent., 1886, XVIII, 

 p. 58. — Dyah, Ent. News, 1895, VI, p. .340. 



Htafic V. — Width of head, 1.7 mm,; shaped as in the next stage, 



HtiKjc VI. — Width of head, 2.2 mm. Slightly bilobed, clypeus very 

 higli, a long conical tubercle before the apex of each lobe, pointing 

 oblifiuely iorward, bearing tlie upper epicranial seta on its upper aspect 

 before the tip; setae short, stiff. 



Stage VII, — Head slightly bilobed, higher than wide, smooth and 

 rounded, no tubercles; width, 3.3 mm. Black with a rtMldish shade 

 in the sutures, shining. Body compressed, higher than wide; feet, 

 especially the abdominal, very long. Joints 5-7 slender and arched, 12 

 very strongly hanii)ed, tubercles I and II in an elevated square, the 

 lower part of the segment small, so that Joint 13 witli the anal feet is 

 placed nearly directly beneath it. Tubercles large, chitinous on the 

 hum])ed parts, elsewhere small, reduced to single setae, except VI, 

 which bears many, and II on thorax, which bears two, setae. Hair stiff", 

 long, especially on the huini)ed parts, white. Cervical shield atta<;hed 

 to the head by a lirm membrane, the anterior dorsal pair of hairs being 

 attached at the tip to the labrum of the head case of the preceding 

 stage, forming a string of cast heads. Color black, shading into red- 

 brown on the anterior side on the hump on joint 12 and thoracic feet. 

 Sides of joints 7 to 10 streaked and washed with whitish flesh-color, 

 joining over the back centrally. The larvae are solitary, wagging the 

 string of cast heads from side to side when disturbed. 



Cocoon. — A hole of the diameter of the body of the larva bored in 

 wood '' one-fourth inch horizontally, then down about 2 inches like a 

 woodpe(;kei's hole in miniature, the ojjening covered with thin parch- 

 ment like silk very near the color of the bark. The chips are wadded 

 up into balls about the size of B shot" (Goodhue). 



Food plants. — Winterberry, lilac. 



list of the genera and species. 

 Pantheinae. 



PANTHEA Hubner. 



1. fiircilla Packard. 



2. <;igaiitca French. 



3. porLlandia (irote. 



4. acronyctoides Walker. 



leucovielana Morrison. 



DEMAS Stephens. 

 1. propinquilinca Grote. 



DEMAS Stephens — Continued. 



2. llavicornLs Smith. 



3. palata Grote. 



CHARADRA Walker. 



1. deridensGueni^e. 



circulifera Walker, 

 contifjua Walker. 



2. dispulsa Morrison. 



3. decora Morrison. 



