350 REPORT 4, UNITED STATES ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



leaves of Malva rotundifolia at Giesborougb Point, D. C. The moths 

 from these larvae began issuing December 1, and more than a dozen 

 had made their appearance by Dec. 4. 



ANOMIS TEXAN a n, sp. 



[Plate II, Figs. 4, 5, 6.] 



Another species of the genus Anomis, determined by Mr. A. E. Grote 

 as A. exacta Htibn. (and so marked on our plate II), but which is really 

 quite distinct from that species ^^, occurs in parts of the South. A. 

 exacta is one of the so-called West Indian forms of the genus, and ap- 

 pears in the British Museum Catalogue from Santo Domingo, Vene- 

 zuela, and Para, but does not occur, so far as we know, in the United 

 States. The species under consideration hitherto confounded with it, 

 occurs in Texas and we have described it as Anomis texana. In the 

 summer and fall of 1878, a number of pupse and one larva were col- 

 lected by Judge William J. Jones, then one of our field agents, at Vir- 

 ginia Point, near Galveston, Tex. Most of these were reared to the 

 adult state. The larvae and pupae are strikingly like those of Aletia, 

 but careful observation will enable one to distinguish them. The moth 

 can be distinguished at a glance. 



The full grown larva (Plate II, Pig. 4) seems precisely like Aletia struct- 

 urally even to the minutest dots on the head and the position of the 

 piliferous spots; but in reality it differs in lacking the first pair of pro- 

 legs, which are not only atrophied but entirely aborted. It is distin- 

 guished by the more confused and mottled coloration ; the medio-dorsal 

 line is more broken and is illy defined ; the dorsum proper is more varie- 

 gated with olivaceous; the subdorsal and supra-stigmatal lines are 

 also less distinctly defined and are narrower and more broken. The 

 stigmata! region is more mottled with pale and dark olivaceous, verging 

 upon ferruginous, and the piliferous spots are not relieved by the same 

 bold white annulus ; the stigmata have a narrower black border, and 

 the black spots of head and anal shield are smaller, while the reticulate 

 veining of the head is of a deeper brown. The front pair of abdominal 

 legs, as just stated, is aborted, with, no trace of hoolvlets. 



In structural characters the pupa (Plate II, Fig. 5) seems identical 

 with Aletia. It may be distinguished by the fact that it is somewhat 

 smaller, darker in color, not so glossy as Alelia, and is somewhat more 

 coarsely granulated. 



The moth (Plate II, Figs. 6, 6rt) is well represented on the plate and 

 will require no extended description. 



Leucania unipuncta Haworth. 



[Plate V.J 



This insect, well known in this country in its larva state as the 

 <* Northern Army Worm," has, first and last, occasioned a great deal of 

 discussion and even controversy in agricultural reports and journals 



