86 AECTlADiE. 



subdorsal and lateral warts each with a shorter white spinulate hair ; 

 the abdominal somites with two additional small hemispherical dorsal 

 warts with single dark hair, and two piliferous warts below the 

 lateral ones on the somites without prolegs ; the prolegs with dusky- 

 patch on outer side; the longest hair is on 1st abdominal somite; 

 the hair spinulate. 



Adult: body whitish, concealed by long silky slate-grey hair; 

 the spiracles pale with a narrow black ring ; piliferous tubercles 

 pale with dark points at origin of hairs. Food-plant, Apocynum 

 cinclr oscemi folium. ■ 



1341. Ammalo eglenensis. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 5.) 



Euchcstes eglenensis, Clem. Proc. Acad. Sci. Pbil. 1860, p. 533 ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 236. 

 Euchcetes inopinatus, H. Edw. Papilio, ii. p. 13 (1882) ; Kirbj^ Cat. Het. 



p. 236. 



(S . Yery pale brownish grey ; palpi orange at base ; vertex of 

 head and patches on shoulders and fore coxse orange ; abdomen 

 orange above, with dorsal and two lateral series of black spots. 

 Tore wing with some yellow on base of costa. Hind wing paler, 

 with the cilia white. 



Mab. U.S.A., Atlantic States, 1 J Grote Coll. Exj^. 40 millim. 



Egg. Dyar, Psyche, ^ii. p. 70 (1897). 



Eounded, flattened at base ; shining deep ochre-yellow ; reticula- 

 tions fine, hexagonal ; diam. 7 millim. 



Larva. Stage 1. Body pale yellow ; warts large, black ; feet and 

 shields dark ; somites 3-5 & 10 reddish ; on prothorax four setae 

 on shield, one detached, two on pre-spiracular tubercle, two on sub- 

 ventral tubercle ; somites 2-3 with three setae from wart i. a, b, one 

 seta from ii. a, a fine one from ii. b, one from iv. and two from vi. : 

 no subprimary setae on thorax ; on abdomen two setae from i., one 

 from ii., two from iii., one each from iv. & v., two from leg-plate; 

 the subprimary tubercle vi. present on somites 4-5, 10-11 without 

 setae ; vii., viii. present on apodal somites ; on somite 12 the sub- 

 dorsal tubercle with four setae ; lobes of head black ; clypeus 

 whitish. 



Stages 2-4. Like the adult, but hair-tufts shorter and smaller, 

 only the dorsal ones (i.-iii.) with plumed hair. 



Stage 5. Head reddish orange, paler in sutures ; ocelli dusky ; 

 body orange-red: warts small, black, the hair-tufts of short spinulate 

 and plumose hairs, those from warts i. & ii. on somites 2 and 3 

 longer ; hair sordid silvery grey ; leg-plates blackish ; tubercles i. to vi. 

 normal, iv. slightly smaller than v. ; four warts on somites 2 and 3 ; 

 cervical shield and anal plate reduced and represented each by four 

 small warts ; somite 1 retracted, reduced. 



