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•22mm. ; height of tubercles -02mm. Caterpillar. — First stage : Head (pi. 79, 

 fig. 36) black, nearly as broad as body. Body pale green, subcylindrical, nearly 

 equal. Legs luteous. Length -75mm. Third stage : Head piceous, deeply and 

 narrowly cleft at the crown, smooth, with a very few rather long, extremely 

 delicate, hairs. Body rusty-brown in short longitudinal patches, edged with pallid 

 yellow, with a darker dorsal stripe outwardly edged with dull pallid yellow ; the 

 lower portion of the sides with a series of darker oblique stripes, forming a broken 

 suprastigmatal series ; annuli dusky, hairs pellucid ; spiracles luteous, with a 

 narrow fuscous ring. Legs and prolegs pallid green. Length 3mm. Breadth of 

 head •35mm. Fourth stage : Head piceous, body pale green with a darker green 

 dorsal stripe, broadest on the thoracic segments, somewhat pallid subdorsal ridges, 

 and the sides tinged with griseous from the numerous dusky ringed annuli and 

 papillae. Caruncles of 8th abdominal segment (first noticed in third stage) pallid, 

 the spicules orange or pale salmon; when at rest they are not wholly withdrawn, 

 but look like fleshy cups with corrugated edges, and are a little more than 1mm. in 

 diameter ; midway between spiracles of same segment is a long, erect, tapering, 

 straight, spiculiferous, needle-like spine, of a dusty colour, and about as long as the 

 longest hairs: There is also a broad, transverse cleft between the spiracles of the 7th 

 abdominal segment, occupying at least a third of the space between the spiracles. 

 Last stage (pi. 75, figs. 37, 44; : Head (pi. 79, fig. 38) piceous ; labrum pallid at base, 

 beyond dark castaneous ; antennas pale ; ocelli black ; mouth-parts pale green. 

 Body dark green, with a fuscous dorsal stripe from the second thoracic segment 

 backwards, enforced by black points, especially near the edges of the segments. 

 Whole of first thoracic segment infuscated. Sides of the abdominal segments 

 between the spiracles and the pallid green infrastigmatal fold dull vinous, becom- 

 ing brownish posteriorly ; sides above spiracles marked with a couple of bands of 

 short, pale brownish-fuscous lunules, separated from each other by their own 

 width, the convexity upward, each upper lunule of one segment also forming, with 

 the lower lunule of the next succeeding segment, an interrupted oblique line, 

 alternating with a series of oblique pale lines. Whole body, between the stigmata 

 and the dorsal stripe, and especially at the edges of the latter, besprinkled with 

 pallid stellate papillae, each bearing a short brown spiculiferous hair, and with 

 black, stellate, papillate points, bearing a shorter brown spiculiferous hair. Legs 

 green, with long castaneous claw; prolegs green. Length 7 - 5mm., breadth 2-5mm. 

 Chrysalis (pi. 84, figs. 42, 47, 48). — Pale green, the abdomen brownish-yellow, the 

 thorax and wings distantly and minutely spotted with blackish-fuscous ; wings with 

 about three narrow longitudinal, blackish bands, oblique with respect to the body ex- 

 tending from below upward and backward ; a blackish dorsal stripe, interrupted on 

 the abdominal segments ; a suprastigmatal series of rather short, oblique, blackish 

 dashes on the abdominal segments, and a longitudinal dash in its continuation on 

 the metathorax ; hairs white, the spicules blackish ; spiracles luteous. Length 

 7*25mm.; breadth at abdomen, l'75mm.; length of thoracic hairs, -6mm.; length 

 of abdominal hairs, '5mm.; height at abdomen, l'omm. (Scudder). Foodplants. 

 — Various leguminous plants — Lespedeza capitata (Harris), Phaseolus perennis 

 (Strecker), Desmodium marylandicum (Edwards), Galactia sp. (Abbot), Tri- 

 folium (Edwards), Astragalus leucopsis (Wright). Distrirutiox. — Throughout the 

 Alleghanian and Carolinian dist., occurring north and south of this, and extend- 

 ing from the Atlantic to the Bocky Mountains, and in the north to the Pacific. 

 Taken as far north as Great Slave Lake (Ross, " Brit. Mus. Coll."), Devil's Portage, 

 Liard Biver, lat. 59° 25' N., long. 126° 10' W. (McConnell), the mouth of the 

 Saskatchewan river (Scudder), Dufferin and Woody Mountain (Dawson), London, 

 Ontario, not very common (Saunders), Toronto (Williams), Orillia (Grant), Ottawa 

 (Fletcher), Chateauguay Basin (Jack), Montreal, rare (D'Urban). Westward it 

 extends in abundance to the central part of the continent— Wisconsin (Chamber- 

 lin), Iowa (Allen), Missouri (Mich. Univ. Mus.), Kansas (Snow), Colorado, occa- 

 sional (Mead), Bosita (Xash), Fort Niobrara, Nebraska (Carpenter), Dakota and 

 Montana (Edwards), California — San Bernardino (B. M. Coll.), British Columbia 

 (Mead). Eastward it extends to the Atlantic, occurring throghout New England, 

 including the White Mountain district, common (Scudder), Pennsylvania, 

 Maine — Auburn (Fernald), Portland (Lyman), West Virginia (Edwards). 

 Southward it occurs as far as Nicaragua, Honduras (Brit. Mus. 

 Coll.), Southern Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Bica (Godman and Salvin); 

 the Gulf of Mexico, Florida — Apalachicola (Chapman), Alabama (Gosse) ; 

 Mexico — Cordova (Riimeli), Jalapa (Schaus) ; British Honduras — Corosal 

 (Boe) ; Guatemala — Polochic and Motagua Valleys (Godman and 



