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Fig. 20. — Eiipsetidoso7na involufa, (^ . 



Eitpscudosomafloridum, Grote, Can. Ent. siv. p. 187 (1882); Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 205. 

 IJiickcBfes immaculata, Graef. Ent. Am. iii. p. 42 (1887) ; Kii'by, Cat. Het. 



p. 236. 



^ilky white ; palpi above, a bar on frons, and anteniife fuscous 



vertex of head j-ellow 

 pectus crimson in front 

 legs fuscous above ; ab- 

 domen crimson above 

 with dorsal series of white 

 points ; the 1st and two 

 terminal segments and 

 the ventral surface 

 white. Fore wing with 

 the costal edge fuscous ; 

 curved fuscous lines below the cell and vein 2 and above 5, 



Ab. 1. florida. Fore wing with the two fuscous lines obsolete. 

 Hab. U.S.A., Florida, Palm Beach (Bi/ar) 1 5 ; Mexico ; 

 Cuba ; TEiifiDAD, 1 $ {Broadtuay); Goiana ; Sueinam ; Brazil, 

 Pernambuco 1 5 (II. i\^ Ridley). ' Exp. 40-44 millim. 

 Erfri, Dyar, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1900, p. 2r)8. 



Somewhat conoidal, base flat, apex slightly produced ; yello^\ash 

 green with amber shades, later opaque whitish green ; reticulations 

 small, regular, rounded hexagonal, slightly raised, forming a ring of 

 small ceils round the micropyle, which is slightly oft' the centre ; 

 laid on back of leaf in a mass or scattered. 



Barva. Stage 1. Head somewhat rounded and bilobed ; clypeus 

 high; antenna3 moderate; primary sctfe short, black, distinct; 

 i. and ii. rather near vertex, iii. at middle of lobe, iv. near ocelli, 

 three behind ocelli (one inclosed) and two above antennae ; jaws 

 brown ; ocelli black. Body arctiform, with large tubercles and 

 thick spinulose white hair ; segments contracted ; no shields ; 

 tubercles i, o + i. 6 + ii. a on somites 2-3 distinctly united on a 

 flattened fan-shaped wart ; ii. h small, posterior ; iv. large ; vi. 

 dark : on abdominal somites i. small, dark ; iv. stigmatal, posterior, 

 rather small ; v. larger ; setae single, no subprimaries ; body a 

 little flattened ; the lateral tubercles, especially on somites 2-4, a 

 little prominent. Colour transparent whitish, tubercles ii., iii. on 

 somites 10, 11, 12 anteriorly dark oehreous ; hairs white. 



Stage 2. Head flattened before, distinctly bilobed ; somites 2 to 

 4 largest, 1 retracted and weak, 12 small ; warts moderate, spherical, 

 with rather dense, white, stiff sinnulose hair, longest on somites 2, 

 ?>, few on 1 : prespiracular and subventral warts present ; on somites 

 2-3 one wart above the stigmatal wart round, produced ; on 

 abdominal somites i. small, ii. large, iii., iv., v. small, vi. larger 

 on the subventral fold ; no anal plate but warts on the flap. 

 Colour luteous white, the sides tinged with pale vinous, deeper near 

 subdorsal tubercles of somites 2, 3, and below warts ii., iii. of 

 somites 4, 5, and 9, more distinct on 10-12, forming oblique 

 orange-red streaks from wart ii. on somites 11, 12. 



