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an irrc,LCnlar livid purplish slripc l)c<;inniii,y; on the 3cl ihoracic 

 sey;mt'nt. Tlurc arc no hairs along the back ami those aioni:; the side 

 arc tmtisnally short and arc pa/e ii:;rayish in color. The body beneath 

 is black, with a median livid pinkisii line alonj^ the abdominal 

 segments, widening between the abdominal legs, and ending on the 

 7th segment, the end of the body, including the anal legs, being 

 black. 



Notodonta stragula Lirotc 



This larva occured on the as]x-n al Mrunswick, Me., .\ugust 

 14. In the stage before that described and figured in my report ; 

 it feeds on the edge of the leaf. 



.SV<?{,'c III? — Length 12 mm. Head large and broad, wider 

 than the body, and flattened in front, narrowing towards the 

 verte.x, where' it is slightly bilobed, and bearing a broad, straight? 

 ilark amber-brown band on each side, edged with ]Kde whit- 

 ish on the outside. The body is a rich puri^lish, becoming darker 

 below and on the under side, with no reddish tints such as occur in the 

 next stax'^c. 'I'he nutant i)rojection on the 2d abdominal segment is 

 large and well developed and inclined backward, ichilc the 2d one is 

 irry small, much smaller than in the next stage, being about one-third 

 as large as the one in front. The dorsal hunij) on the <Sth abtlominal 

 segment is conical, with a broad median lilac amber-brown band 

 passing back on to the suranal plate, and forwards over the projec- 

 tion in front to the head. The sides of the humps are stained 

 whitish and ochreous, with two short, wavy stains in front, one set 

 on each siile of the body. The thoracic legs are dark ; the abdo- 

 minal legs paler and nearly concolorous with the jx-culiar, velvety 

 purple of the body, and somewhat darker. I'he piliferous warts are 

 small, but pale and distinct. On the side of the prothoracic seg- 

 ment above the legs is a short, narrow, horizontal pale-yellow line. 



For a description of the fully grown larva, see I'roc. Bost. Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., Vol. x\iv, ]). 524, and for a description and figure of 

 stage IV. see my report on Forest Insects, p. 563, PI. v, fig. i. 



Pheosia rimosa Packard. 



Mr. Dyar has described (Psyche, Vol. vi, p. 196) at length all 

 the stages (five) of this species {P. diniidiata H.S.) from California, 

 where it feeds on poplar and willow. 



The eggs and freshly hatched young w-ere observed on the 

 under side of the leaves of the aspen, the 26th of July and ist of 



