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attracted by light. It is quite rare and 

 has nev*er been found except about the 

 Trumpet vine. 



Neither the egg nor the mode of ovipo- 

 sition have been observed, though Miss 

 Mary E. Murtfeldt, of Kirkwood, Mo., 

 who was the first to observe the larva, and 

 has carefully searched for the eggs, believes 

 that they are inserted under the cuticle of 

 the full-grown, green pod, as she has fre- 

 (juently found on such, small blistery eleva- 



the wings being somewhat narrower, the apex of 

 primaries more rounded; by the median vein of 

 secondaries not being naked; by the pocket at 

 the base of the front wings of the S having the 

 opening less oblique and lacking the springs or 

 bristles inside (described in that genus as keep- 

 ing the pocket open), but more particularly by 

 the sculpture of the costal margin of the primar- 

 ies, which is here irregularly undulate with four 

 indentions, deepest in the .; , two basal ones 

 about the middle of the wing in a rather broad 

 and shallow excavation, the third being slight 

 and the fourth, which is subterminal, still more 



[Fig. 15: 



tions, each containing what appeared to be | shallow, and made between a subterminal bulg- 

 particlesof the egg-shell, and concealing a ' ing and the apex: the basal third of wing is 

 minute puncture in the pod through which . strongly convex to shoulder. Antenna; alike in 

 the newly hatched 

 larva had evident- 

 ly entered. The 

 peculiarly flatten- 

 ed and spatulate 

 nature of the ovi- 

 positor rather con- 

 firms this observa- 

 tion. 



The moth is gray- 

 ish in color, — front 

 wings having pur- 

 plish-brown mark- 

 ings with a few or- 

 ange spots -and a 

 white dash at the 

 outer third of the 

 front or costal mar- 

 gin which is char- 

 acteristically wavy. 

 The female (Fig. 



152,/) is somewhat larger than the male 

 (Fig. 152, o)^ and he is at once distin- 

 guished from her by having a curious 

 pocket on the costal border at the base 

 of the front wings. 



The figures here used were made some 

 two years since while we were connected 

 with the Department of Agriculture, and 

 we are indebted to Commissioner LeDuc 

 for the electrotypes. 



Clydonopteron tecom.e : a, part of pod broken 50 as to show 

 larva, nat. size ; /', larva, side view ; c\ head and cervical shield_ of 

 same; rt', cocoon from side ; c, pupa, ventral view; /", hole from which 

 moth' issued ; ^, male moth, expanded ; /t, pocket on his front wing ; 

 /, female moth at rest— hair-lines showing nat. size (after Riley). 



CLYDONOPTERON N. GEN." 

 Comes near (Ectoperia Zellerf but at once dis- 

 tinguished by having distinct, black ocelli, by 



*K\v8a)V, wave, TtTEpJv, wing. 



IHertrage zurKenntniss der Nordamericaniscnsen Nachtfal- 



1875, P- 331 



Verk. K. K. zool.-bo 



Jahrgang, 



both sexes, subcylin- 

 drical, with about 44 

 joints; tapering to tip; 

 abial palpi covered 

 with long porrect 

 scales above and be- 

 ow, produced at up- 

 per middle and lower 

 tip of second and both 

 above and beneath at 

 middle of terminal 

 joint and giving a lat- 

 erally compressed ap- 

 pearance ; the first 

 joint ver)^ short, re- 

 curved, second joint 

 nearly six times as 

 ong, terminal joint 

 rather longer than ba- 

 sal; haustellum short 

 with scales at base; 

 maxillary palpi insig- 

 nificant, in form of 

 two broad bottons 

 covered with hair. 

 Primaries with 13 marginals : Costal vein short, 

 stout, joining subcostal near the base and reach- 

 ing costa at the first indention ; subcostal very 

 stout at base giving off four branches which reach 

 costa successively at the 3d elevation, 3d in- 

 dention, 4th indention and apex, also with 

 one branch beneath ; disc complete ; discal vein 

 incurved, faint; median vein three-forked, the 

 first fork from middle of the wing ; submedian 

 extending to lower apex ; internal vein much 

 bent and anastomosing, just beyond its middle, 

 with the submedian by a faint oblique vein in 

 the direction of the apex. The space between the 

 rounded basal margin and the costal vein is ex- 

 cavated and ends at the shoulder with a stout 

 membranous swelling narrowing toward base and 

 obliquely docked distally, the space occupied on 

 costa being yi the length of the wing and twice 

 as great as on costal vein ; the docked end is 



