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BEUTENMULLER, MONOGRAPH OF THE SESIID^. 



cumbs to its insignificant enemies. Hundreds of fine trees in the forests of the 

 region are to be seen in various stages of decay. The moths make their appear- 

 ance in June and July, during which period the eggs are deposited. The larvae 

 begin to form their cocoons in December and January, being an evidence that 

 the insect is double brooded. The larvae when fully grown line the channel in 

 the resinous nodules with silk, forming a sort of cocoon in which they transform 

 to pupae. 



Parharmonia Beuten. 



Fig. 19. 



Harmonia Hy. Edwards, Papilio, Vol. II, 1882, p. 54. (Preoccupied.) 

 Parharmonia Beutenmuller, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Vol. VIII, 1896, p. 124. 



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Fig. 19. Hind-leg, Head, and Venation oi Parharmonia pini . 



Palpi almost straight, with appressed scales. Antennae long, filiform, very minutely ciliated in 

 the male. Body slender, anal tuft of male straight, not prominent, that of the female, similar but 

 less distinct. Hind tibiae with short hairs. Fore wings with 12 veins ; R 4 and R 5 stalked. Hind 

 wings with veins M 3 and Cu x on a short stalk from the end of the cell. Vein 3A, indicated. Dis- 

 cocellulars oblique. Tongue present. 



Type : Algeria pint Kellicott. 



Parharmonia pini {Kellicott). 



Plate XXX, Fig. 13, Male. 



/Egeria pini Kellicott, Can. Ent. Vol. XIII, 1881, p. 5 ; ibid. p. 157 ; Packard, Ins. Inj. For. 



and Sh. Trees, Bull. No. 7, U. S. Ent. Com. 1881, p. 180. 

 Harmonia pini Hy. Edwards, Papilio, Vol. II, 1882, p. 54 ; Grote, New Check List N. Am. Moths, 



1882, p. 12 ; Packard, 5th Rep. U. S. Ent. Com. 1890, p. 727 ; Comstock, Man. Stud. 



Ins. 1895, p. 261. 

 Parharmonia pini Beutenmuller, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Vol. VIII, 1896, p. 124 ; ibid. Vol. 



IX, 1897, p. 219. 



Male. — Head, palpi, antennas, thorax, and legs wholly metallic blue or green black. Collar 

 edged with orange in front. Abdomen blue black above, with the posterior half of the fourth seg- 

 ment orange ; underside wholly orange. Anal tuft orange, blue black above in the middle. Fore 



