54 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. x. 



A NEW SPECIES OF DIRPHIA. 

 By William Schaus. 

 Dirphia carminata. 



Head, collar and body below light brown.. Thorax, base of abdomen and anal 

 hairs light red ; abdomen otherwise black, banded with buff. Primaries light red ; 

 the veins on outer half finely white ; an inner dark spot on costa, one on median, 

 and another on submedian, black, shaded on either side with white : an outer ob- 

 liiiue interrupted black line broadly shaded with white above and below cell and on 

 inner margin. Secondaries : basal half light reddish-brown ; a large dark spot at 

 end of cell ; a dark outer band, outwardly shaded with whitish ; the outer part of 

 wing brownish-black ; the veins finely white ; fringe whitish. Expanse, 95 mm. 

 Habitat. — Jalapa, Mexico. 



THE LARVA OF CARAMA CRETATA. 



By Harrison G. Dyar. 



The larva occurs on the red-bud ( Cenis canadensis') in the vicinity 

 of Washington, D. C, gregariously at first but scattering somewhat 

 over the tree and feeding singly when half grown. They do not 

 wander widely as with the allied Lagoa ci-ispata. Structurally the 

 larvae are as in La^^oa, but in coloration differ markedly, being fur- 

 nished with but thin pale hair, the skin being brightly colored in yel- 

 low, red and black. A somewhat similar modification is seen in the 

 Porto Rican Mcgalopyge knigii, but the continental species is more 

 strongly marked. The last five stages of Carama- cretata came under 

 observation, all essentially alike. 



Larva. Head dark brown ; width about 2 mm. Shape as in Lagoa with hook- 

 less feet on joints 6 and il, besides the usual ones; long pointed everted glands 

 behind the spiracles ; impressed dots situated as in the spined Cochlidiidze. Thick, 

 flattened, joint 2 hood-shaped, smooth, but hairy. Four rows of warts on the 

 thorax, three on the abdomen, normal. Pale yellow subventrally, on the hood and 

 the warts with a circular area around each ; on joints 3-5 and 12-13 deep brown-red 

 dorsally to the lateral wart, shaded, running close to the warts ; on joints 5-II deep 

 black cut by the round spots about the warts of subdorsal row ( i -|- ii ) and incised 

 by semicircular areas about the lateral warts (iii), not reaching below these. De- 

 pressed spaces (l) and (4) white with clear dots, those of (l) paired; (2) repre- 

 sented by dots only. Hairs of two kinds, short and spiny with large basal cones, 

 and long (12 mm. ) feathery ones, white. A few hairs on foot base. 



Cocoon, formed in 'he ground. Dorsal side arched with a low median carina; a 

 narrow hollow margin along each side ; ventral surface flattened with a squarish tube- 

 like projection in the middle ; anterior end with an imperfect flap or lid covered by 

 the arch of the dorsal surface. 



Emergence in July, mature larvce in September ; single brooded. 



