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dominal segment, and in place of them on the segments is a pair of more widely 

 divergent short hlack dashes: on the segment next to the last is a transverse ridge. 

 Anal legs long and slender. General color of the body wood or horn brown, of the 

 shade of old twigs, sometimes reddish or greenish. Head marbled with a set of 

 trausverse wavy whitish lines on each side of the median line. Body with a lateral 

 row of black dots; beneath, much paler, glancons green. Length, 35""". 



The larvae are very variable; in some the body is reddish with longitudinal bauds 

 much more distinct than usual ; in some the body is pale pea-green, a little paler than 

 the pine leaves ; there is a iirm, quite wide medio-dorsal line, and on the sides a wider 

 white line next to the broader very conspicuous pale red spiracular line, which is 

 similar in color to the reddish sheath of the pine leaf. Head reddish, with the char- 

 acteristic oval white spots on each side. In others (as pitch pine) the body is beau- 

 tifully marbled with gray and whitish. A V-shaped white spot on the side of the 

 head. On the segment next to the last abdominal are two small inconspicuous warts. 

 A faint, broad^ grayish-white dorsal band, broadly interrupted at the sutures of the 

 segments by an irregular transverse umber-brown stripe. A faint lateral broad band, 

 containing on the side of each segment a clear, white point. Length, 42' nm . 



Pupa. — Of the usual rather slender Catocala shape, covered with a slight whitish 

 bloom. The abdominal tip rather blunt, the surface corrugated with irregular longi- 

 tudinal furrows above and on the sides; spine small, bearing at the end two very 

 large, long stout bristles curved outwards at the ends, which are blunt; at their base 

 are two pairs of slender bristles. Length, 17 mm . 



Moth. — Body and wings dark ash-gray and reddish brown ; thorax crested, dark 

 reddish brown, with two blackish transverse lines. Patagia with a white stripe be- 

 hind the middle aud white scales at the tip; hinder part of the thorax dusted with 

 white. Fore wings black and reddish brown at base, with interrupted and broken 

 black and white lines. Within the middle of the wing is a broad, slightly sinuous 

 whitish-gray baud. A large black mark forming a hollow square, the hollow gray- 

 ish, at the end of the discal space. Beyond this spot are two nearly parallel black 

 lines, the inner bent inwards at a right angle upon the costa, and sending an angle 

 into the extra-discal space; the line is bent outwards on the 1st median vein, then 

 curving inwards aud ending on the hind margin of the wing. The outer line curves 

 outwards on the costa towards the apex, is bent on the 1st median vein, and behind 

 is nearly parallel with the inner line. A fine black scalloped hair-line at the base of 

 the fringe, which is darker on the points of the scallops. Hind wings with a double 

 black curved baud beyond the middle, the space within the lines filled in with 

 black towards the hinder edge of the wing. An indistinct broad diffuse shade passes 

 across the wing just within the middle. On the under side of both pairs of wings 

 the discal dots are present, and there is a diffuse dark line common to both wings. 

 Expanse of wings, 3b* mm . 



