354 REPORT 4, UNITED STATES ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
Platyhypena scabra (Fabr.). 
[Plate LXII, Fig. 1.] 
This motli is common in almost every portion of the United States, 
and throughout the South it flies during the winter on all warm, sunny 
days. Hence, although quite dissimilar to Aletia, it has been fre- 
quently mistaken for this moth, and sent to us as evidence of the adult 
hibernation of Aletia. In the larva state we have found it feeding upon 
clover and grass at Saint Louis, transforming to pupa within two or 
three leaves loosely webbed together. At Washington we have also 
reared it from Solidago. There are two or three annual generations in 
the latitude of Washington, and more in the Cotton States. 
The larva and pupa were described by Professor Comstock, in the 
Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture for 1879, p. 252, the 
larva only colorationally ; while the larva was, again, very imperfectly 
described by Mr. D. W. Coquillett, in the Canadian Entomologist, Vol. 
XII, p. 43 (1880). The larva lacks the first pair of prolegs, and in gen- 
eral appearance looks much like a green, immaculate specimen of the 
•Cotton Worm, like which it also acts. We have bred from this larva 
at Washington the Chalcid parasite Euplectrus platyhypence Howard. 
Phoberia atomaris (Hiibner). 
[Plate LXII, Fig. 3.] 
This is a very common moth throughout the Southern States. It was 
figured and described by Hiibner in his Zutrage zur Sammiung exotis- 
cher Schmettlinge, and is mentioned by Guenee as figured in an unpub- 
lished drawing by Abbot. We are unable to learn, however, that the 
■early states have been published. This moth has been frequently sent 
to us from the South during the winter by observers who mistook it for 
Aletia, and was captured by Judge J. F. Bailey at Marion, Ala., Feb- 
ruary 10, 1880, while feeding on the nectar from the blossoms of the 
.Mock Orange [Cerasus carolinensis)* (See note 19.) 
" American Entomologist, III, p. 77, March, 1880. 
