[93] THE LARVA OF HOMOHADENA BADISTRIGA. 205 



XVI. THE LARVA OF HOMOHADENA BADISTRIGA. 





Hadena badistriga GROTE: in Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., hr., p. 20. 1872. 

 EomoJiadena badistriga GROTE : in Bui. Buf . Soc. Nat. Sci., i. p. 180. 1873. 



The young larvae, three-eighths of an inch in length, were 

 discovered on May 30th, at Schenectady, N. Y., feeding on 

 the leaves of the honeysuckle. 



The mature larva measures 1.12 in. long, by .18 in. diameter. 

 Head small, about one-third the breadth of the central seg- 

 ment, flesh-colored, spotted with dull green and with the 

 frontal triangle bordered within and without by black ; ocelli 

 black. 



Body cylindrical on segments 3-9, the last three rapidly 

 tapering, the last one being less than half as broad as the 

 central ones ; the second segment (head not counted) slightly 

 smaller than these, and the first a little broader than the 

 twelfth; surface smooth, without hairs, except the usual 

 minute setse of the setiferous spots, conspicuously striped as 

 follows: a broad substigmatal band, traversed by longitud- 

 inal waved lines, limited above by a black line on the 

 thoracic segments which becomes obsolete on the fourth seg- 

 ment; a somewhat narrower stigmatal band of dull green 



a whitish line traversing the stigmata, dividing the band 

 equally in different shades of green ; a subdorsal pale band 

 limited above by a black line which is more distinct on the 

 central segments where also the band is paler ; above this 

 a black stripe commencing on the fourth segment, becom- 

 ing more marked on the central segments, and terminating 

 on the ninth this line bordered above by a correspond- 

 ing one of white; dorsal stripe geminate, whitish on the 

 thoracic and terminal segments intermediately, expanding 

 between the middle of each segment and its posterior portion 

 to inclose a mesial black spot or spots resting on the incisure 



bordered outwardly by olive-green, which by being broken 

 at the incisures gives the conspicuous dorsal feature of two 

 oblique dashes traversing the segments and approximating 



