﻿172 CLEMENS' SYNOPSIS OF 





Measurements. 







HEAD. 



THORAX. ABDOMEN. 



BODT. 



ANT. WING 



Length. Breadth. 



Length. Breadth. . Length. Breadth. 



Length. 



Length. 



2-50 ? 1-50 



4-50 4-25 11-00 4-00 



18-00 



2400 



68. S. drupiferarum. — Abbot & Smith, I. 71, pi. 36 ; Harris, p. 294, 3. Lethia drupiferarum Hubner, 

 Verz. Schmett. 141, 1510. 



Head and thorax blackish brown, whitish fawn-color on the sides. Abdomen brown, with a slender 

 dorsal line and a lateral black band on each side containing brownish white spots. Anterior wings dark 

 brown, with costa from base beyond the disc, and to median nervure below, whitish fawn-color, with wavy, 

 separated dark brown lines crossing lower portion of the nervules, the last bordered above with whitish ; a 

 fawn-colored marginal space tapering to the tip and containing a whitish line. A black discal dash, and 

 two delicate black discal lines continued singly on the disco-central nervule, with black streaks in sub- 

 median sulcus and all the interspaces except the medio-superior. Posterior wings whitish, with a broad 

 median black band enlarged toward the costa and sub-terminal black band, with the terminal margin fawn- 

 color. 



Egg. ? 



Young Larva. ? 



Mature Larva. — Head green, with a lateral blackish band. Body pale green, with lateral, oblique 

 purple bands, edged beneath with white ; caudal horn dark reddish brown, yellow on the sides at base ; 

 stigmatae orange yellow. Length about 3} inches. 



Pupation. — The larval transformation takes place in a subterranean cell. The pupa is dark brown, with 

 reddish brown between the segments and the tongue-case short, reposing on the breast and truncate at the 

 extremity. The perfect insect from the fall larva appears early in June. 



Food-plants. — The larva feeds on the leaves of the various varieties of Plum. 



Geographical distribution. — Pennsylvania, Massachusetts. 







Measuremen ts— 



-a Female. 









HEAD. 



THORAX. 



ABDOMEN. 



BODY. 



ANT. WING, 



Length. 



Breadth. 



Length. Breadth. 



Length. Breadth. 



Length. 



Length. 



3-00 



3-00—2-00 



6-00 5-00 



12-00 5-00 



19-00 



23-00 



69. S. LTJSCITIOSA. 



Antennae blackish brown. Palpi blackish brown. Head and thorax blackish brown or blackish and 

 white on the sides. Abdomen brown, with a black stripe on each side. Anterior wings pale brown, with 

 a ferruginous hue ; the inner border fuliginous, a terminal fuliginous baud tapering to the tip of the wing, 

 with a wavy outline anteriorly, and the costa and a patch on the costa above the tip of the same hue ; a 

 slender black discal line, with black lines and streaks in all the interspaces and sub-median sulcus. Fringes 

 blackish. Posterior wings yellow or stramineous, with a broad terminal black band and the fringes whitish. 



From Mr. Robert Kennicott, taken in the pine forests of Wisconsin. Collection of George Newman, of 

 Philadelphia. 



Egg. f 



Young Larva. ? 



Mature Larva. ? 



Pupation. f 



Food-plants. f 



Geographical distribution. — Wisconsin, New York. 



