658 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
tegmenta (hey are orange, white above Mid below. Segments :*, 4, and 5 are also pale 
yellow gr ee n, the two latter swollen into ■ hump. The remaining segments are all 
bluish green, covered with white dote, and with a darker dorsal line. On segments 
;"). 6, 7, and - are oblique whitish hands, hut on the posterior segments these are lost 
in a continuous line to the base of the caudal horn, which is bluish at the base, pale 
green at the tip, and white in the center. The anal segment is yellow green, as also 
are the abdominal legs. The thoracic feet are green, with the sides orange red. 
Previous t<> ohange the caterpillar assumes a purplish leaden hue, the dorsal and 
lateral lines becoming blackish. One specimen is pinkish, with the four anterior 
and the anal segment of a brownish cast, and with a dark dorsal stripe. The lateral 
Jiue is also brown. 
Pupa.— The pupa is purplish brown, with the pink tint over the whole surface 
slightly mottled. Wing-cases also mottled with black, spaces between the segments 
pitchy brown. (H. Edwards and Elliot.) 
Moth. — Expanse of wings from 2$ to 3 inches. The upper side of the head and 
thorax is of a rust-red color, varying to a brownish red, with the tips of the patague 
and a spot on the side of the thorax at the base of the forewings pale gray. The 
abdomen is fawn-colored, aud the segments are narrowly edged with pale yellowish. 
The forewings are reddish brown with purplish reflections. The basal half is sprinkled 
with grayish scales and crossed by four curved brownish lines, and there is a discal 
dot of the same color. The outer part of the wing is of a darker reddish-brown 
color and crossed by several indistinct paler lines, the inner edge being oblique and 
straight, The terminal space is colored like the base of the wing. The hind wings 
are rusty brown. The entire under side is pale rusty brown with indistinct terminal 
bands on the wings and two faint cross lines on each. (Fernald.) 
2. Antispila nysscefoliella Clem. 
The larva mines the leaves of Nyssa multiflora in September. When 
full fed the larva weaves an oval cocoon within the mine, and cutting 
the two skins of the leaf into a corresponding form, permits it to fall 
to the ground. There is thus left an oval hole in the deserted mine. 
The imagos appear during the following May. 
Larva. — The head is dark brown ; first segment dark brownish ; body very pale 
green, with dark atoms aloug the dorsum ; ventral surface with a line of two black 
spots. After the last molting the first segment is black, and the dorsal spots become 
a black vascular line. 
Moth.— Head above dark brown. Face, labial palpi and forefeet shining yellowish 
ocherous. Antenna) dark brown ; basal joint yellowish ocherous. Forewings dark 
brown with a greenish reflection, and the base with a bright coppery hue. Near the 
base is a rather broad, bright golden band, broadest on the inner margin, where it 
is nearest the base, and constricted at the fold of the wing ; a spot of the same hue 
on the costa, at the apical third of the wing, aud one on the inner margin, midway 
between this and the baud ; cilia somewhat c ippery, and rather grayish at the inner 
angle. Hind wings purple brown ; cilia grayish ocherous. (Clemens). 
The habits of this larva are like those of A. cornifolieUa. (Chambers.) 
3. Nepticula nyssaella Clem. 
The larva makes a narrow tortuous mine in the leaves. Imago un- 
known. (Chambers.) 
4. The sour gum scale. 
Chiona8pi8 nyssa' Comstock. 
The following description is taken from Professor Comstock's Report 
for 1880, p. 316. It is figured on his pi. xvii, f. 4. 
