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THE GYPSY MOTH. 



Female, — Front a little less than one-third of the width 

 of the head, gray poUinose on the sides, the median stripe 

 deep reddish brown or black, broader than the sides, nar- 

 rowed below; a pair of proclinate ocellar bristles pres- 

 ent ; the lateral row of bristles has an outward curvature. 

 Second joint of the antennae reddish; in front somewhat, 

 blackish, and with erect bristles ; third joint black, about 

 three times the length of the second; arista thickened at 

 the base, plumose. Sides of the face narrow, bare. Cheeks 

 in width about equal to the length of the third joint of the 

 antennae, with a row of bristles on the inferior margin 

 reaching to the moderately stout vibrissse a little above the 

 oral margin ; bare on the upper part, and with short bristly 

 hairs below. Sides of the face and the upper part of the 

 cheeks reddish in ground color, covered with silvery pubes- 

 cence. Mesonotum gray poUinose, variable, with four nar- 

 row, shining black stripes, the lateral ones interrupted. 

 Scutellum broadly reddish at the apex ; apical bristles long, 

 decussate. Abdomen uniformly covered with gray pol- 

 len, moderately variable in different reflections, the ground 

 color everywhere shining black. Legs yellow; the front 

 femora in large part and the base of the middle femora 

 black ; all the tarsi blackish. Wings grayish hj^aline ; first 

 posterior cell only a little narrowed at the tip ; penultimate 

 section of the fourth vein shorter than the antepenultimate 

 section. Length, 6-7 mm. 



Three specimens, labelled Emerged from gypsy moth 

 pupjB, Aug. 20—21 and 25, 1891." This species is the one 

 which I have commonly identified as C. stabulaiis Fall., but 

 I have never compared it directly with European specimens. 

 According to Schiner, it has been bred from Bomhyx j^yri 

 and Lophyrus, and also from various species of Boletus. 



Elacliiptera dispar n. sp. (Plate 53, Figs. 12 and 12a.) 

 Female. — Head yellow, a minute spot at the ocelli and the 

 arista black. Thorax light yellow ; a narrow niedian stripe 

 extending from the front margin of the mesonotum to the 

 tip of the scutellum ; a small oblique spot on each side, 

 contiguous with the front end of the stripe, and the disk of 

 the mesonotum, black. Abdomen yellow ; second segment, 



