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MEMOIRS OF THE NATIOl^AL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
It differs from auy other species known to me in lacking any green color on the thoracic or 
other segments of the body. 
The larva of S, mnstelina described by Professor French is said to be O-SO inch in length, and 
“the sides of Joints 3 and 4 are bright green,” otherwise it appears to agree with our specimens of 
Jeptinoules, I’robably the specimens described by French, whicli were under size, were in next to 
the last stage, or at all events had retained the green coloring of the earlier stages. He raised 
three moths from his larvie. (Dr. Dyar writes me that French’s larva is evidently S, imicornifi.) 
Cocoon , — The caterpillar fastens leaves together for a cocoon, within which it changes. 
(French.) It is oval, made of silk, uniformly thin, though dense and parchment-like, and my 
Maine specimen spun between leaves. 
Piipa . — Two 9 . 
being pointed and 
Body 
ending 
c. t. 
ViG. 77.— Pupn of Si'Mzura lejitinoi- 
rfe'j. Dorsal view of lioatl. o. i., with 
tho {!0(;oon cutter; flat. antenna; pth, 
prothorax; ifp, Rpirai’lo. 
rather stout, of the usual color. It is noteworthy from the head 
in two stout conical sinnes, or cocoon-cutters, arising from the 
epicranium between the eyes. Cremaster ending in two stout spines, 
tlattened vertically, and ending in four or five slightly curved, short, 
sharp spinules, with a minute spinule at the base on the inside. Ves- 
tiges of the anal legs small, narrow, not prominent. On hinder edge 
of mesoscutum is a transverse row of ten large deep pits separated by 
double tubercles, each tubercle being fiattened above, witli an i-m- 
pressed median line giving a double appearance to the tip, which is 
dull, not ])o]ished as are the sides. Length, 18 mm. 
Habits . — Professor French, speaking of the habits of C. miisfell 
na. 
says that “three nearly grown caterpillars were found at Carbondale, 
111., on a rosebush Se])tembcr 18. By October 1 they had pupated, and the moths appeared on 
JMay 20, 22, and 31 following. No efforts were made to rear a second brood, but fi-om the time 
the larvm were found in the fall it is to be presumed that there are two broods in a season.” 
The eggs here described were laid by a species of Schizura, and sent by Miss Emily L, IMorton, 
who is (piite sure that it was Sch izura Icptinoides. They were laid June 3, at New Windsor, N. Y. ; 
they hatched June 12, all the others being oat of the shell by noon of the next day. 1 did not 
carry it beyond the first stage, but have little doubt but tliat 
Miss Morton’s identification of the moth was correct. 
Riley has found the eggs in August; the larvie in July, 
August, and September; the moths in August. 
The moth was collected at Cambridge, Mass., by Dr. Harris, 
June 15. I have found the larva on theliornbeam at Bruns- 
wick, Me.; it was uniformly pale russet-brown, the color of a 
sere dead leaf. It began to i^upate September 12. 
Food plants . — Carya (Thaxter); beech and hornbeam in 
Maine; in Rhode Island, the chestnut and tupelo (Packard); 
rose (French ) ; hickory, walnut, butternut (Miss Morton ) ; wal- 
nut (Pilate); Georgia (Leconte’s figure, which I take to repre- 
sent the larva of this species, fed on the oak. PI. XX VI, figs. 
4c, 4f/, 4e). Abbot (MS.) figures the larva giving as its food 
])]ant Helianthus angustifoUus. In New York, hickory and hop 
hornbeam (Dyar). Dr. Dyar writes that leptuwides is generally a hickory feeder. 
Geographical distribution , — A member of the Appalachian and Austroriparian subi)rovincial 
faimm; it ranges from Maine to Georgia, and westward to Illinois. 
Orono, Me. (Mrs. Fernald) ; Kittery, ]\Ie. (Thaxter); Brunswick, Me. (Packard); Massachusetts 
(Harris); $ , Buffalo, N. Y. (P. Fisher, U. S. Nat. Mus.); Newburg, N. Y. (Miss Morton); Platts- 
burg, N.Y. (Hudson); Carbondale, 111. (French); Ohio (IMlate) ; Savannah, Ga. (Leconte, Abbot) ; 
Wisconsin and District of Columbia (U. S. Nat. Mus.); Maine, IMassachusetts, Rhode Island, New 
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio; Champaign and Carbondale, HI. (French). 
Fifi. 78.— Pupa of Schizura lejitinoules. Eno 
of body. 
