778 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
Pupa. — Moderately Blender, thorax spotted with brown, wings slashed and spotted 
with brown ; abdomen with ■ dorsal and two lateral rows of irregular spots, and the 
segments also surrounded by a circle of spots. Terminal spine moderately large, not 
corrugated below, above coarsely pitted with more or less confluent punctures, the 
end bearing two long, straight, stout bristles, a pair of small bristles on the upper side 
mar the end of the spine; a small pair beneath, and a larger pair, one on each side. 
Length, n ,mn . 
The moth. — Smoky hyaline ash color, often whitish ; head ocherous. Palpi rather 
stout, ascending, passing a little beyond the front; third joint rather long, conical. 
Antennas ocherous, ashen above, with long, delicate, fine, close-set, black pectina. 
tions. Body pale cinereous, with an almost imperceptible ocherous tinge. Fore 
wings with a basal, slightly curved, dark, diffuse line, which is especially marked 
on the veins; discal dot distinct but diffuse, rather larger than in t. fiscellaria', 
an outer, not very oblique, slightly sinuate, dusky line, sometimes angulated on the 
first median venule in both wings; it is thickened on the venules, curving inward a 
little toward the base ; the wings are rather thickly flaked with smoky striga% espe- 
cially on the costa and outer edge. Hind wings without any discal dot ; the single 
line a little curved, not reaching to the costa ; wings very transparent at the base. 
Beneath, whitish, very transparent; the lines faintly appear; no discal dot; costa 
tinged slightly with ocherous. Hind wings scarcely angulated, the angle being 
almost obsolete. Expanse of wings, 38 mm . 
This is a very variable species, in rubbed examples being unusually 
pale transparent ashen, but dusky in fresh specimens. The lines are 
arranged much as in E. fiscellaria, but where the wings are slightly 
rubbed they are represented by a series of punctures on the venules. 
The unusually long, filiform, closely set pectinations of the antennae, and 
the granite-gray wings, with dusky lines, not tinged with ocherous, 
will distinguish it from the other species. It varies greatly, the lines in 
one female being twice as far apart as in another, and the outer line in 
some being almost straight, in others a little bent. If I had had Mr. 
Grote's types alone of male E. bibularia and female pellucidaria, I 
should have regarded them as distinct; but, with the addition of other 
specimens of both sexes, I have felt compelled to unite them, as the 
species seems to be as variable as in T. fiscellaria. One Kentucky 
female expands only 30 mm . 
104. The pink measuring worm. 
Paraphia subatomaria Guen6e. 
Order Lepidoptera; family PHAL^ENiDiE. 
Feeding on the pine, a brown measuring worm, the moth appearing June 24. 
(Saunders.) 
The caterpillar of this moth is not known farther than that its color 
is brown. 
The moth is a delicate species with deeply serrated and angulated wings. The 
present species differs from the others of the genus by its whitish color, being rarely 
somewhat ocherous, while the base and outer edge of the forewiugs are as pale as 
the middle portion ; the under side of the wings are rather pale. The wings expand 
1.30 to 1.70 inches. 
