Schizura leptinoides Grofr. 



The L\i4ns were laid bv a species «»f Sc-///':///<r and sent by Miss 

 l-jiiily L. Morton, who is {|uite sure that it was .Sr/z/zuni /</>// //c/i/rs. 

 riiey were laid June 3, at New Windsor, N. \ ., they hatched June 

 r2, all the others l)eing out of the shell by noon of the next day. 

 1 did not carry it beyond the hrst staj>e, but have little doubt but 

 that Miss Morton's identification of the moth was correit. 



/:Xi^-. — 'I'ransverse diameter 1 mm. of the same size and shape 

 as those of .V. ipoimue. Hemispherical, motlerately hijj^h, and under 

 a hi,Lih Tolles lens seen to be very finely pitted ; under a ^ inch ob- 

 jective of Tolles the surface is seen to be divided into 5 and 6-sided 

 areas, with a distinct raised edge ; the surface smooth and more 

 often without the bead, so common in eggs of .V. ipoiiUiC. 



Towards and at the micropylar region the cells become 

 longer, minuter and more crowded, and in this res|)ect the egg 

 seems to differ from those of S. ipoiiuuc, in wiiich the areas are 

 more or less obsolete in the micropylar region. 



Frcshy hatched larva.'- — Length. 3 mm. The head is very large, 

 nearlv twiie as wide as the boilv ; ileep iioney \elh)W. 



I'rothoracic segment of the same tint as the head, but green 

 behintl. The rest of the body is pale yellowish green, with rather 

 large honey-yellow warts. The ist and 8th abdominal segments 

 are deep cherry-red, while the sides of the 2d to 7th segments 

 above the legs are the same color. On the ist and <Sth segments 

 is a pair of dorsal cherry-red tubercles, those on the ist somewhat 

 larger than those on the 8th segment ; those on segments 2 to 7 

 are small, of nearly uniform size, ami concolorous with the 

 greenish yellow segments. The ^\\(\ of the body, including the 

 anal legs and the 9th and loth segments, is upheld as usual in the 

 genus. The thoracic and first four pairs of abdominal legs are 

 dark. The anal legs smaller than those in front and are pale, 

 being of the same color as the end of the body. The glandular 

 hairs are distinctly seen to be bulbous at the tip, and long and 

 une(iual in length ; the two longest ones, /. t\ those on the pro- 

 thoracic segment being about three times as long as the body is 

 thick. 



Compared with the larva of .V. ipotiwic of the same stage, the 

 two dorsal warts on the prothoracic segment appear to be a little 

 ■^mailer. The glandular hairs seen under a Jj inch objective, are 

 of the same length, and general shape as in .V. if>oiiu-a\ but do not 

 appear to be (juite so bulbous. 



Within the (;%^ the larva lies with the front of the head lu-.xt 



