190 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
Larva. — The body above is dark brown, with a slightly reddish tint, and patches 
of ;i darker Shade along the dorsal region, being the color of the twigs of its food- 
plant. It remains in the papa state about a week. 
Pupa.— Body rather stout, wing-covers reaching to the seventh abdominal ring, 
counting from t he end; the tip is acutely conical; anal spine large, acute, much 
flattened from above downward: bearing two large, curved .spines, with two much 
smaller, curved basal spines; abdomen with scattered, acute spiuules arising from 
minute black tubercles; pale ash, minutely speckled with darker tine points, with a 
dark dorsal line extending from the head to the end of the anal spine. Length 0.55 
inch. 
Moth. — Thirty males and teu females. Palpi long. Fore wings foliate; outer edge 
almost angular. Hind wings slightly scalloped. Body and wings of a uniform 
ocheioiis-yellow ; palpi dark in front of the head, tipped with dark browu. Fore 
wings uniformly ocherous; a curved, basal, rust-brown line, denticulated on the 
veins ; beyond, two parallel, more distinct, concolorous Hues, the inner a little wavy, 
directed obliquely to the inner edge; the outer makes a right angle in the submedian 
space, crosses the inner line, forming a broad triangular iuclosure on the inner edge 
of the wing; beyond is a broad space just beyond the middle of the wing, usually 
tilled in with a purplish-brown tint, disappearing before reachiug the costal space; 
sometimes there are two central lines in this space, converging a little below the 
median vein and forming large riuglets; this mesial space is bounded externally by 
a dark rnst-brown line, which ends at the same distance from the base of the wing, 
both on the costa and iuuer edge ; in the first median space it forms a large, sharp 
projection ; beyond is another coucolorous line, which curves inward to where it is 
usually (not always) interrupted by the projection of the other line, and thence goes 
straight, though zigzag in its course, to the inner edge of the wing; a similarly 
colored, more or less zigzag, oblique, apical line extends to the middle of the wiug, 
opposite the projection ; the edge beyond the lines either clear yellow or filled in 
with lilac-brown ; a small discal dot. Hind wings clear, a little paler than the fore 
wings, with a faint discal dot, sometimes absent; in the outer third of the wing 
au angulated, faint, violet-brown line, edged externally with silver, a heavier, dif- 
fuse, shorter, submarginal, dark brown, zigzag line, with a slight violet tinge; the 
space between this and the wiug suffused with violet-brown, extending only toward 
the middle of the wing, or sometimes passing beyond the apex. Beneath the wings 
are yellow ocherous, speckled, especially on the hind pair, with coarse, violet-brown 
specks. Fore wings clear when covering the hind oues, with three costal spots, the 
third in the middle of the costa; beyond the angulated outer line is reproduced ; 
apical oblique line distinct, with a violet-brown cloud below. Hind wiugs with 
three regularly scalloped lines; the margin of the wing broadly clouded with violet- 
brown. Legs yellow ; joints tipped with violet-brown. Abdomeu yellow, tinged 
above with rust-brown. Expanse of wings, male 1.30 to 2.10, female 1.35 inches. 
266. Eupithecia miserulata Grote. 
June 3, 1876. — Found two larva? feeding ou oak. Length about 0.63 of an inch, 
of a yellowish color, with brown markings on the back much like arrow-heads with 
the points directed towards the head; a brown line over the whole length of the 
back and a short brown line each side just behind the head, ending where the last pair 
of thoracic legs commence. The larva chauged to pupa June 12, without constructing 
a cocoon, suspending itself by the point of the abdomeu; it is also of a yellowish 
color. The moth issued June 23. (Riley's unpublished notes.) 
The caterpillars of this widespread geometrid were common on the 
live oak at Crescent City, Fla., April 9 to 14. The larvae spun a slight 
cocoon and pupated April 15, the moth emerging at Washington April 
20. Another moth emerged in Providence April 30. In shape, the 
