28 ARCTIAD^. 



F/upseudosoma floridum, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 187 (1882) ; Kirbj-, Cat. 



Het. p. 205. 

 Euchcetes immacidata, Graef. Ent. Am. iii. p. 42 (1887) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 236. 



Silkj' white ; pnlpi above, a bar on frons, and antennae fuscous; 



Tertex of head yellow ; 

 pectus crimson in front ; 

 legs fuscous above ; ab- 

 domen crimson above 

 with dorsal series of white 

 points ; the 1st and two 

 terminal segments and 

 the ventral surface 



Fig. 20. — Eufseudosoma involuta, <^ . \. white. Fore wing with 



the costal edge fuscous ; 

 curved fuscous lines below the cell and vein 2 and above 5. 



Ab. 1. Jlorida. Fore wing with the two fuscous lines obsolete. 



Hah. U.S.A., Florida, Palm Eeach {Dijar) 1 $ ; Mexico ; 

 Cuba ; Teinidad, 1 $ {Broadway) ; Gdiana ; Surinam ; Brazil, 

 Pernambuco 1 $ {H. N. Ridleij). Exp. 40-44 millim. 



Egg. Dyar, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1900, p. 2o8. 



Somewhat conoidal, base flat, apex slightly produced ; yellowish 

 green with amber shades, later opaque whitish green ; reticulations 

 small, regular, rounded hexagonal, slightly raised, forming a ring of 

 small cells round the micropj^le, which is slightly oft' the centre ; 

 laid on back of leaf in a mass or scattered. 



Larva. Stage 1. Head somewhat rounded and bilobed ; clypeus 

 high ; antennae moderate ; primary setae short, black, distinct ; 

 i. and ii. rather near vertex, iii. at middle of lobe, iv. near ocelli, 

 three behind ocelli (one inclosed) and two above antennae ; jaws 

 brown ; ocelli black. Body arctiform, with large tubercles and 

 thick spinulose white hair ; segments contracted ; no shields ; 

 tubercles i. a -f i. 6 + ii. a on somites 2-3 distinctly united on a 

 flattened fan-shaped wart ; ii. h small, posterior ; iv. large ; vi. 

 dark r on abdominal somites i. small, dark ; iv. stigmatal, posterior, 

 rather small ; v. larger ; setas single, no subprimaries ; body a 

 little flattened ; the lateral tubercles, especially on somites 2-4, a 

 little prominent. Colour transparent whitish, tubercles ii., iii. on 

 somites 10, 11,12 anteriorly dark ochreous ; hairs white. 



Stage 2. Head flattened before, distinctly bilobed ; somites 2 to 

 4 largest, 1 retracted and weak, 12 small ; warts moderate, spherical, 

 with rather dense, white, stiff" spinulose hair, longest on somites 2, 

 3, few on 1 ; prespiracular and subventral warts present ; on somites 

 2-3 one wart above the stigmatal wart round, produced; on 

 abdominal somites i. small, ii. large, iii., iv., v. small, vi. larger 

 on the subventral fold ; no anal plate but warts on the flap. 

 Colour luteous white, the sides tinged with pale vinous, deeper near 

 subdorsal tubercles of somites 2, 3, and below warts ii., iii. of 

 somites 4, 5, and 9, more distinct on 10-12, forming oblique 

 orange-red streaks from wart ii. on somites 11, 12. 



