456 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
the stigmata. Anal shield ru>ty and rough : stigmata black, encircled with yellow; 
abdominal feel blank, tin- rest pale yellowish. Another specimen differs in color, 
being pah- lawuder, with a slightls darker dorsal liue. Under parts between the 
Fir,. 166.— Pheosia rimosa. 
.d a taint suhstigmatal greenish yellow line. Another slightly smaller was of 
a bright pea-green color, with a bright yellow stigmatal stripe, in other, respects like 
the former. Length, 1.50 to 1.75 inch. 
Pupa.— Dark brown. Head-case smooth, deeply incised between the abdominal 
segments. Anal segment large and smooth, ending in two short points. 
Moth. — Wings rounded and somewhat produced towards the apex : of a deli- 
cate frosty white and brown. Along the ends of the subcostal venules of the fore- 
wings are long streaks of brown : in the apical and subapical spaces are two long, 
longitudinal, broad streaks, oblique and parallel to the costa, which terminate just 
before the apex ; middle of the wing white. A long, broad line extends from the 
base to just above the inner augle on the outer margin, lined below with white, and 
deflected upwards along the outer edge. Tuft cinereous. Beneath cinereous, costa 
darker. The female darker than the male. Hind wings white, the region of the 
internal angle and tuft dark brown. Legs and abdomen cinereous. Thorax and 
head cinereous : the tuft on the patagia or shoulder tippets tipped with dark brown. 
Fringe interlined at base with white. Expause of wings, 2 inches. 
27. Xotodonta stragula Grote. 
(Larva, PI. V: fig. 1.) 
The caterpillar of this moth has been reared by Mr. Tepper in New 
York. It was found on the poplar July 4; the moth appearing July U7. 
(Bull. Eut. Soc. Brooklyn, i, 10). Messrs. Edwards and Elliott have 
found the food-plant to be the willow. (See under Willow Insects ) 
Larva. — Head slate color, mottled with black, and with a pale stripe on each side. 
Month parts with a greenish tinge. Body pale lilac, with the exception of the elev- 
enth and twelfth segments, which are dull golden. The seventh and eighth seg- 
ments have raised prominences, which are also golden, that of the seventh being the 
largest. Laterally there are some pale oblique streaks somewhat similar to those of 
many Sphingidae : these do not meet on the back, where there is a faint slate-colored 
line. Between the second and sixth segments, aud common to all of these, is a 
darker dorsal shade which re-appears on the eleventh and twelfth segments. The 
spiracles are white, with a black ring, aud the lower lateral line is paler than the 
rest of the body. The twelfth segment bears a hnmp, and the sides of the eleventh, 
twelfth and thirteenth segments are pale brown, mottled with orange. Abdominal 
legs dull slate-color, mottled with black ; thoracic legs black. Length 55 mm . (H. Ed- 
wards and Elliott. Papilio, iii, 1*29.) 
Moth. — Anterior wings slaty-gray, shaded with pale buff along internal margin, 
with a chestnut-brown basal patch and some brown streaks and spots in the terminal 
tpaoe; internal margin crested. Extreme base of the wing brownish; basal line dis- 
tinct; snbbasal space large, grayish at costa. rich chestnut brown below the median 
vein, pale buff along the internal margin, which lattt-r shade extends from base to in- 
ternal angle. A very dark brown streak extends from the basal line to the trans- 
