90 EEV. A. MILES MOSS ON THE 



frequently taken on a species of wild Nicotiana with the small putty-coloured cocoons 

 of the parasite standing out erect all over its body. 



The pupa is practically identical with the two foregoing species, and was not 

 iigured. 



47. Pkotoparce scutata. (Plate VIII. e.) 

 R. & J. p. 80. 



General Distribution. — Venezuela ; Colombia ; Ecuador ; Peru. 



A species confined to the Interior, and only figured in the final instar of the larva. 

 The moth was bred from a few larvee found on Datura cornigera, locally known as 

 '■'• floripondiar The seven cream-white oblique stripes mark the division betAveen 

 the ventral area which is bhie-green, and the dorsal which is apple-green. The leg- 

 segments are of the same hue, and are sprinkled over with small yellow tubercles. 

 A few white dots are similarly scattered about the abdominal segments. Head blue- 

 green. Legs ochre and black. Claspers fringed with ochre. Anal flap yellow- 

 bordered. Horn warm green, covered with minute red points. Spiracles black in 

 light rings. The pupa was unfigured, but in all outward respects was very similar to 

 the foregoing species. 



53 «. Protoparce rustica rustica. (Plates VIII. a-c ; XV. h.) 

 R. & J. p. 84. 



General Distribution. — Tropical and temperate America and the larger West Indian 

 Islands ; common. 



One of the commonest species of the seaboard in the larval condition, but never 

 obtained from the Interior. Moth less commonly seen though often attracted to light. 



The larva is frequently found feeding on a border shrub known as Bignonia 

 jasniinifoUa in the main gardens and plazas of Lima. Adult larva snaps loudly when 

 first disturbed. Prior to pupation and before leaving the plant the larva becomes a 

 dirty pink colour and laves its entire body with a sticky and frothy substance emitted 

 by the mouth. Frass of clear hexagonal formation, large and black, but strikingly 

 bigger and of a yellow-green colour when the larva has been feeding on the local ash, 

 Fraodnus viridis. 



Puparium a large subterranean cavity. 



Ova. — Singly on under side of leaves oi Bignonia, Duranta, Verbena, Ash, etc. Large, 

 opalescent green, and slightly oval. 



Larva. — First and second instars (unfigured). Clear yellow-green with seven yellow 

 oblique stripes. Very long and thin, with long straight horn only slightly elevated. 



Third instar (fig. a). Sometimes yellow-green, more commonly grey-green inclining 

 to white. Oblique stripes, now white, finely edged with pink above, and the horn, 

 which is still long, rather rough and slightly bent down at the tip, is also nearly white, 



