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to tlie lateral Hue. Tery obscure lines as before, waved, Whitish. Thoracic feet black, except at 
joints; abdominal ones all green, tlieclaspers smoky. Spiracles reddish centered. Later there is 
a broken obscure substigmatal line, composed of oblique, ])ulverulent, yellowish dashes; the 
stigmatal line forms undulations over the spiracles, and the addorsal line becomes broad, white, 
sometimes with a median red mark on joint 13, 
^‘‘Fonrili siage, — The larva rests on the petiole of a leaf and eats all but the midrib on which it 
rests. When the leaf is consumed the stem is bitten off. Head light green, not shining; behind 
the black ocelli a dark reddish baud extends to middle of side posteriorly, ending in a blackish 
shade and coutinnons with an oblique line on the body, which extends over the spiracle on joint 2 
and ends on joint 3 at the lateral line; ])alpi reddish; width, 2.5 mm. Body smootli, green, with a 
broad, geminate, white dorsal band (addorsal lines), filled in with dull red in some specimens; a 
narrow waved snbdorsal line; a row of white dots in place of the lateral line and a few yellow 
-dots for the stigmatal line. Spiracles light reddish. The oblicpie line on joints 2-3 is yellow below 
and smoky red above, and may be faintly repeated on joint 4. Setm minute, dark. Feet green,, 
the thoracic ones marked with black on the joints. 
‘‘ Fifth stage. — Head rounded, broad, flattened before ; light green ; a white line on each side of 
clypeus and another from palpi converging slightly to vertex of each lobe; lateral band smoky 
purplish red, fading to yellowish on its lower side, continuous with the line on joints 2-3. Body 
soft, yellowish leaf-green, tapering posteriorlj’, full, plump, cylindrical. A broad, yellowish white 
geminate dorsal baud, the space filled in with reddish on joint 13; faint traces of a broken 
subdorsal and two or three round yellow dots laterally and superstigmatally. Dorsum faintly 
white shaded; subventral region clear, soft green. Thoi'acic feet reddi.sh, black at tip. Setm 
extremely minute except on the legs, Claspers brownish. Length, about 30 mm. 
“ The species is double-brooded at Plattsburg, N. Y., single-brooded in the Adirondacks,, 
though a single S emerged the same season.” (Dyar.) 
Lophodonta basitriens (Walker). 
(PI. IV, fig. 5.) 
Kotodonta hasitriens Walk., Cat. Lep. Het. Br. Mus., t, p. 1000, 1855. 
Morris, Synopsis Lep. N. Aiuer,, p. 239, 1862. 
Grote, Proc. Ent, Soc. Pliil., iii, p. 93, PI. XI, fig. 1, Juno 1864; Check List N. Amer.. 
Moths, 1 ). 18, 1882. 
Pack., Proe. Ent. Soc. Phil., iii, p. 365, Xov., 1864. 
Smith, List Lep. Bor. Amor., p.29, 1891. 
Kirby, Syu. Cat. Lop. Hot., i, p. 601, 1892. 
Fheosia hasitriens Neum. and Dyar, Trans. Amer. Ent. Son., xxi, p. 196, June, 1894; Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., ii, 
p. 115, Sept., 1894. 
Moth. — Three ^ , Ground color, especially of the thorax and fore wings, ash-gray. Head 
and thorax ash-gray sprinkled with reddish brown scales; a distinct line extending across the 
thorax between the fore wings. Palpi with a dark browm line on the outside. Autenum very 
slightly pectinated, as’iui. angulosa 
Fore wings more pointed at the apex than in L. angulosa, with an oblique dark line crossing 
the wing from the basal third of the costa to the outer fourth of tiie inner edge, and inclosing a 
dark rusty brown patch which fades out on the costa, ami is deepest in hue next to the large but 
short and broad tuft, which is not acute as in A. stragula, but with the distal edge very broad, as 
in L. angulosa. Beyond the patch and tuft is a short sinuous or bent whitish line, the continuation 
of a faint sinuous line extending from the costa, but which becomes much more distinct behind 
the third cubital venule, ending on the inner edge of the wing, and continued on the costa of the 
hind wings, thence extending as a scalloped line across the hind wings, which are pale, though 
somewliat dusky ou the outer margin. No brown marginal and apical brown spots like those 
oi N. stragula, and the wing is not so clear, but dusted with brown scales. Underside pale 
subocherous, with a common diffuse scalloped line. 
Expanse of wings, S , 4G-40 mm.; length of body, ^ , 19-20 mm. 
