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legs, and plates on prolegs black. Dorsum of body dull black, with a white 

 mid-dorsal stripe, extending onto the cervical and anal plates; a broad white 

 lateral band, more or less suffused with pinkish and sometimes with yellow; 

 under side grayish white. Pupa formed in a gallery in dead wood or bark, the 

 entire summer passed in the pupal stage. Pupa stout, somewhat flattened, dark 

 brown; with the anal prolegs preserving their hooks and taking the place of a 

 cremaster; located on the ventral surface well before the end of the body. Moth 

 emerging in September to November; and apparently hibernating. 

 Maryland; Missouri. 



4. E. longimaculella Chambers. White, often slightly grayish. A black dot on 

 vertex and front of thorax, and two on disc of thorax; two black arinulations on 

 third segments of palpus. Fore wing with a rounded black spot at end of cell 

 and one below it and slightly farther out. Base of costal edge black; a strong 

 black dash on outer half of cell below middle, and shorter one on base of R; also 

 three at middle of wing below costa, one beyond cell, and one before middle of 

 fold; rarely with the second dash in. the cell, shown by the next species, trace- 

 able. Hind wing light gray. 22 mm. (Hyponomeuta Chambers). 



Caterpillar in a very flimsy web on stoneseed (Lithospemnum) . Head dull black. 

 Body purplish black, cervical shield large, bright orange, bisected by a yellow line; 

 tubercles concolorous. Neck white; white or yellowish transverse bands behind 

 second and third segments of thorax and fifth and sixth segments of abdomen, the 

 anterior ones slender dorsally and expanded below. Feet all ringed with black. 

 Moth in May and July; larva in July. 



New York to Kentucky. Xew York: Plattsburg. Ithaca. 



5. E. zelleriella Chambers. Closely similar to E. lonyimaculella. A heavy black 

 bar on base of costa, one toward base, and one in outer part of cell, obliterating 

 the discal dot; one in subterminal region opposite the last, larger than in longi- 

 maculella; and several streaks toward costa. 18 mm. 



Caterpillar on Phaoelia dubia, living almost completely exposed. Head black, 

 rounded, with a gray spot on upper part of front, and a rounded spot on each 

 side, separated from the frontal spot by the black adfrontal sclerite. Tubercles 

 of body, except vii, in large rounded velvety black spots; thoracic feet black, 

 prolegs white. Body white with diffuse yellow dorsal, and even less definite lateral 

 bands. Pro- and mesothorax and first segment of abdomen banded in front with 

 black; smoky ventrally. Abdomen with rounded black dorsal spots on segments 

 and smaller ones on incisures; with broad subdorsal gray shades, defined on lower 

 side, and joined by lateral obliqtie ones. Anal plate sooty. Caterpillar found 

 in May; moth emerging the following April. 



Montreal, Quebec to Wisconsin, and south to Texas 1 , apparently rarer north- 

 ward. 



11. SCHIFFERMUELLERIA Hiibner 



((Ecophora, in part; Callima Clemens, not Kallima Westwood; Epi- 



callima Dyar) 



Palpi very long, recurved, smooth; second segment thickened, third slender, 

 shorter. Antenna without pecten; tongue developed. Fore wing rather narrow, 

 sublanceolate, with oblique outer margin, with all veins preserved, R4 and R 8 

 stalked, both running to costa, the rest free, and Cu 2 nearly straight. Hind wings 

 narrower, lanceolate but rounded at apex, with all veins preserved, M, rather 

 nearer to M 3 than to Mjj M 3 and Cu t connate. Brilliantly marked species. 



