BEUTENMULLER, MONOGRAPH OF THE SESIID^E. 233 



p. 469 ; Cook, 13th Rep. Bd. AgricuL Mich. 1875, p. 116; Lintner, Count. Gent. Vol. 



XLIII, 1878, p. 551 ; ibid. XLV, 1880, p. 455 ; ibid. Vol. XLIX, 1884, pp. 397, 477,497, 517 ; 



2nd Rep. Inj. Ins. N. Y. 1885, pp. 57-68 ; ibid. 4th Rep. 1888, p. 138 ; ibid. 5th Rep. 1889, 



p. 155 ; French, Prairie Farm. Mar. 1st, 1879; Coleman, Papilio, Vol II, 1882, p. 50; 



Hulst, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. Vol. VI, 1883, p. 10 ; Devereaux, Rural N. Y. 1883, p. 



425 ; Doran, Bien. Rep. Com. Agri. Tenn. 1887, p. 207 ; Smith, Insect Life, Vol. IV, 



1891, p. 30 ; Rep. Ent. Soc. Ont. 1891, p. 55 ; Osborn and Malley, Bull. 27 Agricul. 



Exp. St. Iowa, 1892 ; Walker, Insect Life, Vol. IV, 1892, p. 271 ; Sirrine, Bull. 75 N. Y. 



Agri. Exp. St. 1894; Murtfeldt, Colman's Rur. World, 1895, p. 250; Webster, Ohio 



Farm. 1895, p. 291 ; Beutenmuller, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Vol. VIII, 1896, p. 113. 

 ALgeria {Melittia) cucurbitce Packard, Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. and Geograph. Surv. (Hayden) 1875. 



(1877), p. 769 ; French, Thomas, 2nd Rep. Nox. Ins. 111. 1878, p. 173. 

 Trochilium cucurbitce Morris, Synop. Lepid. N. Am. 1862, p. 139. 

 Trochilium ceto West wood, Cab. Orient. Ent. 1848, pi. XXX, fig. 6 ; Schaum, Berich. der Ent. 



fur 1848 (1850), p. 125. 

 Melittia ceto Walker, Cat. Lepid. Brit. Mus. Pt. VIII, 1856, p. 66 ; Morris, Synop. Lepid. N. Am. 



1862, p. 335 ; Druce, Biol. Cent. -Am. Vol. I, Het. 1881, p. 32 ; Grote, Check List N. Am. 



Moths, 1892, p. 11 ; Hy. Edwards, Papilio, Vol. Ill, 1883, p. 157 ; Ent. Amer. Vol. Ill, 



1888, p. 223 ; Beutenmuller, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. Vol. V, 1890, p. 204 ; Smith, Cat. Ins. 



N. J. 1890, p. 288 ; Rep. Ent. N. J. 1890 (1891), pp. 476-480 ; Insect Life, Vol. V, 1892, p. 



85 ; ibid. p. 96 ; Can. Ent. Vol. XXIV, 1892, p. 130 ; Rep. Ent. Agricul. Exp. St. N. J. 1892 



(1893), p. 499 ; Bull. No. 94 Agricul. Exp. St. N. J. 1893, pp. 27-40 ; Econ. Ent. 1896, p. 



259; Kent, Insect Life, Vol. II, 1890, p. 283 ; ibid. Vol. Ill, 1891, p. 337 ; Kellicott, 



Insect Life, Vol. V, 1892, pp. 82 and 85 ; Journ. Col. Hort. Soc. 1891, p. 100 ; Can. Ent. Vol. 



XXIV, 1892, pp. 43 and 209 ; Comstock, Man. Study of Insects, 1895, p. 262 ; Webster, 



Ohio Farm. 1895, p. 157 ; Slingerland, Rural N. Y. 1895, P- 2 ^ 1 '■> Quaintance, Bull. 



34 Agri. Exp. St. Fla. 1896, p. 293. 

 Melittia amcena Hy. Edwards, Papilio, Vol. II, 1882, p. 53 ; Grote, New Check List N. Am. 



Moths, 1882, p. 11 ; Beutenmuller, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Vol. VIII, 1896, p. 113. 

 Male. — Head metallic green on top ; face white, palpi pale orange, whitish at base. Antennae 

 green black. Thorax metallic olive green, sometimes green brown. Legs orange, tarsi black with 

 white bands, hind legs clothed with very long black hairs inside and with long orange ones outside. 

 Abdomen above orange red with the segments narrowly edged with green posteriorly and a row of 

 black spots along the back ; first and second segments dark green like the thorax ; underside of 

 abdomen orange. Fore wings dark metallic green with the fringes dark brown black, underside 

 similar but somewhat darker in color. Hind wings transparent, with a decided bluish reflection ; 

 veins and narrow outer margin dark green black, fringes dark brown black. 

 Female. — Same as the male in color and markings. 

 Expanse : Male, 22-26 mm. ; female, 28-35 mm - 



Habitat. — Canada, United States, Mexico, Central America, and southward to Argentina. 

 Larva. — " Soft and robust, the annulets obsolete, the tubercles absent, spiracle black ; otherwise 

 in general normal (S. exitiosa). Paraclypeal pieces regular, not narrowed, pointed above, though a 

 little less sharply so than clypeus ; rather dark brown. Body segments somewhat creased, not 

 distinctly annulate. Feet with 10 to 12 crochets in each half of the ellipse, less in the posterior 

 half. Tubercles colorless, setae obsolete ; white without marks."— (Dyar, MS.) 



This well-known species is popularly known as the Squash-borer owing to 

 the destructiveness of the larvae to that plant. The moth may be easily recog- 

 nized by its opaque, metallic green fore wings, red body, and hairs on the hind legs. 



It was first named and figured as Melittia satyriniformis by Hubner, in 1825, 



