350 REPORT 4, UNITED STATES ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
leaves of Malva rotund if olia at Giesborough Point, D. C. The moths 
from these larvaB began issuing December 1, and more than a dozen 
had made their appearance by Dec. 4. 
Anomis texana n, sp. 
[Plate II, Figs. 4, 5, 6.] 
Another species of the genus Anomis, determined by Mr. A. E. Grote 
as A. exacta Hiibn. (and so marked on our plate II), but which is really 
quite distinct from that species 58 , occurs in parts of the South. A. 
exacta is one of the so-called West Indian forms of the genus, and ap- 
pears in the British Museum Catalogue from Santo Domingo, Vene- 
zuela, and Para, but does not occur, so far as we know, in the United 
States. The species under consideration hitherto confounded with it, 
occurs in Texas and we have described it as Anomis texana. In the 
summer and fall of 187S, a number of pupae and one larva were col- 
lected by Judge William J. Jones, then one of our field agents, at Vir- 
ginia Point, near Galveston, Tex. Most of these were reared to the 
adult state. The larva? and pupa? are strikingly like those of Aletia, 
but careful observation will enable one to distinguish them. The moth 
can be distinguished at a glance. . 
The full grown larva (Plate II, Pig. 4) seems precisely like Aletia struct- 
urally even to the minutest dots on the head and the position of the 
piiiferous spots 5 but in reality it ditfers in lacking the first pair of pro- 
legs, which are not only atrophied but entirely aborted. It is distin- 
guished by the more confused and mottled coloration ; the medio-dorsal 
line is more broken and is illy defined $ the dorsum proper is more varie- 
gated with olivaceous ; the subdorsal and Supra-stigmatal lines are 
also less distinctly defined and are narrower and more broken. The 
stigmatal region is more mottled with pale and dark olivaceous, verging 
upon ferruginous, and the piiiferous spots are not relieved by the same 
bold white annulus $ the stigmata have a narrower black border, and 
the black spots of head and anal shield are smaller, while the reticulate 
veining of the head is of a deeper brown. The front pair of abdominal 
legs, as just stated, is aborted, with no trace of hooklets. 
In structural characters the pupa (Plate II, Fig. 5) seems identical 
with Aletia. It may be distinguished by the fact that it is somewhat 
smaller, darker in color, not so glossy as Aletia, and is somewhat more 
coarsely granulated. 
The moth (Plate II, Figs. G, 6a) is well represented on the plate and 
will require no extended description. 
Leucania uniptjncta Haworth. 
[Plate V.J 
This insect, well known in this country in its larva state as the 
" Northern Army Worm,*' has, first and last, occasioned a great deal of 
discussion and even controversy in agricultural reports and journals 
