Report of the State Entomologist. 177 



The Mature Larva Described. 



The following description of a nearly matured larva of Nephelodes 

 violans, drawn by me from an example taken from beneath a stone, 

 at Centre, N. Y., on June 13th, was overlooked in my preparation 

 of the notice of the insect in the First Report on the Insects of 

 New York: 



Head brown, mouth rounded, broader than long, breadth 0.15 inch; 

 mandibles blackish. Collar glossy black, traversed by three yellow 

 lines, which are continued over the body as a dorsal and subdorsal 

 sharply defined, pale, dull green stripes — the dorsal stripe slightly 

 narrower than the others ; the three, in their continuation over the 

 caudal plate, become j^ellow-green. In addition to these — an obscure 

 narrow lateral green line, and a substigmatal stripe which is broader 

 than the other three, and terminates in the anal prolegs ; the small 

 black stigmata rest on the upper margin of this stripe. The body 

 is of a glossy bronze-green color, with a slightly shagreened appear- 

 ance above, and beneath paler green. The legs and prolegs are 

 obscure green ; the latter marked outwardly with a glossy black 

 crescentic spot. When held up to the light in a plane with the 

 eye, the body shows short whitish hairs at the setiferous points. 



The larva fed on grass, and passed its final molting three days after 

 its capture. It subsequently gave the moth, but the date of its emer- 

 gence and of its pupation were not noted. 



Homoptera lunata (Drury), 



As A KosE Pest, 



(Ord. Lepidoptera: Fam. Noctuid^.) 



Phalcena ( Noctua) lunata Drury: Illus. Nat. Hist., i, 1770, pi. 20, fig. 3; 



(without name); Id. App., ii, 1773 (named). 

 Phalcena (Noctua) ediisa Drury: 111. Nat. Hist.., App., ii, 1773, pi. 24, fig. 4. 

 Noctua lunata Westw.-Drury : HI. Exot. Ent., i, 1837, p. 37, pi. 20, flg. 3. 

 Erebus etiztsa Westw.-Drury: 111. Exot. Ent., ii, 1837, p. 46, pi. 24, flg. 4. 

 Homoptera lunata Guen^e: Sp. Gen. Lep.— Noct., iii, 1852, p. 12. 

 H. edusa Guenee: Id. ib., p. 14. 



H. Saundersii Betkvs'e : in Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., iv, 1865, p. 215. 



H. lunata and edusa. Bean : in Canad. Ent., ix, 1877, p. 174. 



H. " " Lintner: Ent. Oontrib., iv, 1878, p. 108-9; 



H. " " 30th Eept. N. Y. St. Mus. N. H., 1878, p. 220. 



H. lunata. French: in Canad. Entomol., xiv, 1882, pp. 130-134. 



H. edusa. Grote : Ch. List. N. A. Moths, 1882, p. 42, No. 1301, 



ff, lunata. Lintner: in Count, Gent,, xlix, 1884, p. 737. 



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