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Scliizura badia (Packard). 
(PL IV, fig. 23.) 
(Edemasia fcadiaPack., Proc. Eiit. Soc. Phil., iii, p. 361, 1864. 
lleterocampa signijicala Walk., Cut. Lep. Ilet. Br. Mus., xxxii, p. 421, 1865 {fide Grote and Rob.) 
(Edemaaia hadia Grote, New Check ListN. Ainer. Moths, p. 19, 1?^82. 
Smith, List Lep. Bor. Amer., p. 20, 1891. 
Kirby, Sj'U. Cat. Lep. Het., i, p. 567, 1892, 
Schizura niiida Nenin. and Lyar, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., xxi, p. 204, June, 1894; Joiirn. N. Y. Ent. Soc., ii, 
p. 117, Sept., 1894. 
Larva. 
(PI. XXVII, figs. 1, la, lb, 2, 2a~2d.) 
Dijar (ex. Tbaxiei'), Psyche, vi, p, 177, Nov., 1891; Proc, Bost, Soc. Nat. Hist,, xxvi, p. 395, 1894, (Egg and 
stages I-V.) 
Moth. — Tliree 6 . Head above and protliorax reddish brown. Palpi and patagia behind, 
blackish. Fore wings dark reddish with ashen and dark brown scales. Base of the wing reddish 
brown ; in the discal sjiace before the linear black discal mark a cinereous area, but this region is 
discolored with dark brown and continued to the outer edge as two blackish lines, one being the 
fifth subcostal venule, the scales over which spread out toward the apex. Outer margin with 
black and whitish streaks on the venules and in the interspaces. Apex white. 
Hind wings whitish, becoming smoky toward the outer edge, especially on the venules. 
Beneath, smoky cinereous. On the outer edge of the fore wings is a row of small black dots; ends 
of the venules black. 
Ex^ianse of wings, 6 30 mm.; length of body, S 13 mm. 
In a well-preseiwed specimen collected by C. A. Sbnrtleff at Brookline. Mass. (Coll, Bost. 
Soc. Nat. Hist.), the patagia are much darker than the rest of the thorax; the middle yellowish 
ashen region is bordered on each side by zigzag lines; on the anterior half it is frosted over with 
fine whitish scales. The costal third of the wing is white. The dots of the marginal row are each 
succeeded within by white streaks. Abdomen pale cinereous, darker than the hind wings; the 
tip is not so distinctlj’’ divided as in coneiima. Schizura hadia may be easily distingnisbed by its 
deep reddish brown color, dark patagia, and light hind wings, and by the linear discal spot turning 
at a high angle outward, and by the reddish shade, or two reddish-brown lines, in the middle 
beyond. There are also distinct scalloped reddish brown lines at the base and beyond the discal 
spot. The thorax is also darker red. 
^ Larva. — “1 have found this larva on Yihurmm lentago^ and it is certainly not an (Edemasia. 
It is without the red hump and black tubercles of (E. concinna, the body being smooth, with dorsal 
processes on the first, fourth, fifth, (?) and eighth abdominal segments; the sides of the thoracic 
segments are green, but the usual V-shaped mark is, I believe, absent. I have not been able to 
obtain the larva recently for more careful description.” (Dyar in Psyche, vi, p. 177.) 
I add Dr, Dyar’s description of the egg and of Stages I-Y. As my nitida is a synonym of 
concinncty Dyar’s description must be that of badia, I am indebted to Dr. Dyar for specimens of 
hadia forming the subjects of PI. XXVII. 
^^Egg. — More than liemispherical, fiat on the base, covered with shallow, rounded, hexagonal 
areas, not distinctly defined, and becoming obscure and punctiform around the micropyle. 
Diameter, 0.8 mm.; height, O.G mm. Laid three or four together on the under side of a leaf of 
the food plant (Viburnim). 
^^First larval stage . — On joint 2, two subdorsal setm on enlarged bases; on joint 5 a single 
dorsal hump bears tubercle 1; on joints 0-11 two humps, tubercle 1 on each, becoming smaller 
I>osteriorly ; on joint 12 a low single hump* Head higher than wide, the lobes distinct; pale 
testaceous brown. Body shining red-brown, finely mottled with yellow, this color rejdaced by 
clear yellow subdorsally on joints 3, 4, 6, 8, and 11, and snbventrally on joints 6, 8, and 9; feet 
dark. The setae have rather large, slightly conical, brown, chitinons tubercles, normal in arrange- 
ment (0 absent), with several on the lower jiart of the square brown leg plate; setrn slightly 
enlarged at tip. Anal feet elevated. 
Second stage. — Head bilobed with a tubercle at the apex of each lobe; red-brown with a 
rounded, pale yellow patch on each side of clypeus above, one on the side of each lobe and the 
