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ATTID.E. 



Phidippus rufus Htz. 

 Phidippus mystaceus Htz. 

 Phidippus borealis Bks. 

 Philseus militaris Htz. 

 Dendryphantes octavus Htz. 

 Icius elegans Htz. 

 Icius similis Bks. 

 Neon nellii Peck. 

 Habrocestum coccatum Htz. 



Habrocestum decorum Blk. 

 Habrocestum borealis Bks. 

 Habrocestum cristatum Htz 

 Ergane borealis Blk. 

 Saitis pulex Htz. 

 Attus palustris Peck. 

 Attus cruciatus Em. 

 Zygoballus iridescens Bks. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME LEPIDOPTEROUS 

 LARVAE. 



By D. W. Coquillett. 



Nola miniuscula Zell. 



Body light bluish-green or light gray, on each of the segments 

 four to eleven is a transverse row of four very large brownish warts, 

 which are thinly covered with short whitish hairs, while below the 

 lowest of each, and on 1, 2, 3 and 12 segments is a smaller 

 greenish or gray wart thinly covered with longer white hairs ; a 

 subdorsal wavy black line on anterior part of body, sometimes ex- 

 tending nearly the entire length of the body ; head small, wholly 

 contractile in the first segment, light brownish, a black dot on each 

 side, spiracles wholly brown ; fourteen legs, none under segment six. 

 Length, 12 mm. 



Found one June 9th and three June nth, 1886, feeding upon a 

 Tenthridinid gall on willow ; they feed upon them from the outside. 

 Two spun whitish, elongate-ovate, tough cocoons June 12. The date 

 of the issuing of the moths was not noted. 



Scepsis wrightii Grote. 



A caterpillar pupated December 14, 1889, and the moth issued 

 February n of the following year. The chrysalis is pale yellowish, 

 marked with a dorsal, lateral and ventral broad black interrupted band 

 and a subdorsal row of black dots. Another caterpillar pupated Feb- 

 ruary 18, 1890, and the moth issued March 21, of the same year. 



