6 THE FLORIDA FERN CATERPILLAR. 
The following description is copied from Sir George F. Ham- 
son’s Catalogue of the Noctuide :! 
?. Head and thorax greyish tinged with rufous and mixed with a few black 
Scales; palpi thickly irrorated with black; frons whitish with black bar above; 
antenne with the extremity of basal joint, the basal part of shaft above and 
below, and the shaft above beyond the sinus black; tegui mostly black, edged 
with grey, with angled grey line near base and grey line at middle; fore and 
mid tarsi black ‘at extremities; abdomen ochreous tinged with fuscous, the 
basal crests rufous, the crest on 38rd segment biack. Forewing ochreous grey- 
ish tinged with rufous, the veins defined by slight blackish streaks; subbasal 
line represented by double black. striz filled in with whitish from costa and 
Fic. 1.—Florida fern caterpillar (Lriopus floridensis) : Moth aboye; striped larva at left; 
dark larva at right. Enlarged. (Original.) 
cell and with double black strive before it from cell; antemedial line double, 
filled in with whitish, angled outwards below costa, acutely angled outwards 
on base of vein 2, then excurved, a whitish striga before it from submedian 
fold to vein 1; orbicular with brown centre and whitish annulus, very narrow 
and slightly angled outwards at median nervure; reniform whitish with white 
bar on inner edge followed by a brown line, oblique, its lower extremity pro- 
duced to a hook, a triangular brown patch before it extending to costa; an 
oblique brown line from beyond lower edge of cell to vein 1, then bent outwards 
to inner margin; postmedial line double, brown, angled inwards belew costa, 
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1 Cat. Noct. Brit. Mus., vol. 7, pp. 548—549, London, 1908. a. * 
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