415 A. HE. Verrill— The Bermuda Tslands. 363 
crooked or wavy and mostly geminate; a round spot edged with the 
same. Hind wings have nearly the same ground color proximally, 
with a slightly paler transverse band, bordered distally with a rather 
darker wide brown band; margin pale. Expanse, about 38™™, or 
1.5 inches. 
The mature larva* is slender, nearly cylindrical, smooth ; prolegs 
on segments 9, 10, 13 ; body yellowish white with many brown or 
blackish, mottled, double lines ; dorsal line reddish brown, double ; 
subdorsal composed of six black lines, with a black spot between the 
5th and 6th segments ; four reddish lateral lines; a pair of black 
lines just above the stigmata ; a red one along the stigmata; and a 
pair of red ones below them ; ventral stripes darker ; spiracles with 
black edges ; head white, lined with faint brown and reddish mark- 
ings. It ‘is nocturnal in habits; when disturbed it curls itself up, 
the body forming an abrupt angle at the 5th joint, the thoracic feet 
touching the prolegs. Common according to Jones. Feeds on grass. 
Whole United States east of Rocky Mountains; Labrador; Cuba; 
South America. 
Plusia ow Gn.; J. B. Smith, Catal. Noct., p. 252, 1893; Morrison, 
Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, p. 219=P. fratella Grote, Bull. Buffalo 
Soc. N. H., xi, p. 161. Plate xcviii, figures 7, 8. 
Fore wings lustrous yellowish brown, specked and variegated with 
darker brown, and with a subapical patch of dark brown ; faint 
oblique cross-bands of gray; silvery spot bilobed, bordered exter- 
nally with dark brown. Under wings shining yellowish or golden 
brown with a distal band of dark brown and a whitish margin. 
Under side of wings yellowish brown, faintly banded with darker ; 
body tawny brown. An elegantly colored species. Expanse 32-40™™, 
The larva is undescribed; food-plants are not known.t 
Range, New England to Oregon, California, Texas, Florida, ete. 
Green Geometrid Moth. (Synchlora denticulata Walk. (?)=excur- 
varia Packard), 
Mr. H. G. Dyar thinks that our two specimens are probably this 
species, but they are too much injured for positive identification. 
The body and wings are bright, light green, the fore-wings crossed 
by two irregular, narrow, faint whitish lines. Taken in summer. 
T. G. Gosling. Larva eats leaves and flowers of various weeds. 
* For full descriptions of all stages, see H. G. Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 
xxili, pp. 276-8, 1901. +See Addenda. 
