790 FIFTH KKPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
common species feeds <>n the clover, Vitis, Ranunculus arris, and is an 
Inqniline in willow galls, Forbes has found it to be destructive to corn. 
Larva. — Body tapering towards each end. The bead ia honey-yellow, considerably 
narrow «r than the body. Tin- body is pale livid green with a corneous hue. There are 
no lines or any distinctive markings, exoepl tin- foarnsnal irarts or small tubercles 
which are arranged as usual in this family in a trapezoid. Prom these warta 
hairs one-half as long ss the body is thick. At the end of the supra-anal plat 
flattened tubercle with spines. Length lf> imn . 
Pupa. — Length 8 mm . Color, dark Bhinlng brown. Lighter at the end of the wing- 
covers and the parts covering the palpi and base of the antenna.'. Front rounded 
and smooth. Abdominal segments ou the dorsal side armed with two transverse 
rows of small spines inclined backward, those on the posterior edge of each segment 
finer and closer than those of the other row. Abdomen terminated by a protu- 
berance, flattened above, rounded at the end, hollowed out underneath the base, 
and armed with two tine hooks on each side, and four from the end. (Comstook, 
Rep., 1881). 
Moth. — This insect may be described in general terras as a brownish yellow moth, 
the fore wings of which are marked by two V-shaped brown bands (the apex of the 
angle pointing backwards), so placed that when the wings are closed these markings 
form an X. 
The palpi are long, nearly or quite twice the length of the head, yellow above, 
deep red laterally and beneath. The antenme are reddish brown; the head and 
thorax are yellow above, tinged with red or purple at the sides; the patagia red in 
front, yellow beyond. Anterior wiugs golden yellow, finely reticulated with red or 
purplish (sometimes the reticulations are wanting), costa tinged with purple at base. 
A purple spot on the middle of the internal margin throws out two diverging lines, one 
of which attains the costa at the basal third, the other ending just below a similarly 
colored subapical costal spot. The internal margins more or less tinged with purple, 
somewhat constant, aud deepest towards the base ; fringes yellow. Posterior wings 
above and beneath varying from pale yellowish fuscous to dark fuscous or blackish. 
Under surface of anterior wings clouded centrally with fuscous; the margins paler, 
sometimes yellow. Abdomen brownish, legs pale silvery brown, anterior ones dark- 
est. Expanse, female, 14 to 17 mm ; female, 17 to 19 mm . (Forbes.) 
1*23. Teras ferrugana S. V. 
The larva was beaten from the white pine (P. strobi) at Providence, 
October 5. 
Larva. — The body is rather large, 20 mm in length, broad aud flat. Head flattened, 
held out horizontally, reddish above, with a dark broad line around the edge. The 
body is green, with a reddish tint. The cervical shield is concolorous with the body, 
and edged behind with dark black-brown, forming a curved line. Over the body 
above are scattered pale flecks. 
The caterpillar pupated in the bottom of the breeding-box without 
making any cocoon. 
Pupa— Slender, 7 to 8 ,nm in length, of the usual pale horn-brown color. Each ab- 
dominal segment is provided with two dorsal transverse rows of close-set spines. 
The tip of the abdomen is suddenly truncated, compressed from above downwards, 
the edge is hollowed within, the edge itself curvilinear, with a small spine ou each 
side. It differs from that of T. viburnana in the end being broad, square, and flat- 
tened vertically, while the hooks are almost obsolete. 
The moth appeared October 20 or 21. I am indebted to Prof. C. H. 
Fernald for kindly identifying it. According to his Catalogue of Tor- 
