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edly green on the back; head pale yellow, the mandibles light 

 brown. A fine but clear yellowish white line forms the dorsal 

 stripe ; there is a much broader stripe of the same color along the 

 spiracular region, and the space between it and the spiracles is 

 prickled with streaks and spots of the same color. Spiracles 

 black, hairs grayish. Ventral surface, legs and prolegs uniformly 

 pale green. The pupa, although attached by the tail, was laid flat 

 along the top of the cage." (Porritt.) 



PTEROPHORDS CRETIDACTYLUS. 



Pterophorus cretidactylus Fitch, N. Y. Rep., Vol. I., p. 849 (1854). 

 (Edematophorus occidentalis Wlsm., Pter. Cal. and Ore., p. 37, 



Plate II., figs. 13,14 (1880). 

 Plerophorus cretidactylus Fern., Can. Ent, Vol. XXV., p. 96 



(1893). 



Expanse of wings, 26 mm. Head whitish ochreous, slightly 

 tinged with fawn color on the front ; palpi fawn color ; antennae 

 whitish, faintly spotted with fawn color ; thorax whitish ochreous. 

 Abdomen fawn color. Fore and middle legs white, with dark, 

 brush-like tufts on the joints ; hind legs tinged with fawn color, 

 whitish on the inner sides; segments slightly thickened, not an- 

 nulated. 



Fore wings whitisn ochreous, the costa, apex and hind margin 

 tinged with fawn color ; a dark fawn-colored spot before the base 

 of the fissure, more or less connected obliquely with an elongated 

 spot of the same color on the costa ; a light space on each side of 

 the costal spot. Fringes whitish ochreous, tinged with pale fawn 

 color. Hind wings and fringes lustrous, pale fawn color. 



Habitat. New York, California. Early stages and food plant 

 unknown. 



PTEROPHORUS EUPATORII. 



(Edematophorus cretidactylus Zell., Lep. Westk. Am., p. 22 (1874). 

 (Edematophorus cretidactylus Wlsm., Pter. Cal. and Ore., p. 35 



(1880). 

 (Edematophorus cretidactylus Kell., Bull. Buf. Soc., Vol. IV., p. 2 



(1882). 

 Alucita eupatorii Fern., Can. Ent, Vol. XXV., p. 96 (1893). 



Expanse of wings, 22-24 mm. Head dull reddish brown; 

 thorax pale brown; legs brown, darker at the middle and ends 

 of the tibiae ; segments of the tarsi white at the base and brown 

 at the tips ; spurs white in the middle and brown at the tips. 



