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'Clypeiis itself tlie same color; ocelli dark; afewsehe; width, 0.7 mm. A red-brown dorsal Hue 
with markings of the same color, finely yellow dotted, along the lateral area and covering the 
whole of joints 5, 7, 10, and 12; the rest of the body pale yellowish, especially on joint 8. The 
abdominal feet on joints 8 and 0 and the thoracic feet are pale. Tubercles 1 with enlarged bases, 
forming slight dorsal i)rominences on joints 2, 5, and 12. Anal feet brown, elevated. Sete dusky 
with glandular tips, normal, six present with five or six setm on leg plate. 
Third stage. — Head small in ijroportiou to the body, bilobed with a large tubercle at apex of 
■each lobe, rather flat belbre with several setae ; pale brownish white, shaded with brown postex’iorly, 
with a vertical brown baud before ocelli extending to vertex of each lobe, the pair connected by 
an angular cross band above clypeus and again, faintly, near the vei'tex; clyi)eus greenish, ocelli 
dark ; width, 0.95 mm. Tubercles 1 with enlarged bases ; a slight hump on joints 5 and 12 bearing 
1 near the apex; a ixair of tubercles in place of the cervical shield. Body at first yellowish, except 
the sides of joiuts 2-4, which are green. Later shining leaf-green. A purple-brown dorsal baud 
dotted with white extends from joint 2 to the anal feet, widening a little on the mi<ldle of each 
segment, cov'ering tubercle 1 on joint 5, but on joint 6, 1 is bright yellow; the brown color covers 
the whole of joint 7, even the foot, and stains the posterior half of joint 6 and a stigmatal patch on 
joint 5. Tubercle 1 on joint 8 yellow. The brown baud covers 2 on joints 9 and 10 and stains the 
foot on joint 10, extending up anteriorly and also posteriorly on joint 11; it covers tubercle 1 only 
•on joints 11 and 12 and, becoming very narrow on joint 13, passes to the anal feet. A faint white 
subdorsal band, stained with yellow, most distinct on joints 8 and 9, and forming a somewhat 
oblique yellowish mark on joint 11, suggesting the usual V-inark of Schizura larvm. The green 
ground is partly replaced subventrally by whitish streaks. Thoracic feet pale, Setm pale, with 
glandular tips. 
^'•Fourth stage. — Head much as before, but a brown line extending up from the ocelli is all that 
is left of the brown on the sides of the lobes, and the band connecting the vertical lines above is 
broken. Width, 1.5 mm. Body as before in color, but* the setm stiff, distinct, not glandular. The 
green of the sides is considerably broken up by whitish streaks; tubercles 1 on joiut G, and 1 and 
2 on joint 8, are yellow. As the stage advances the brown dorsal band partially fades out, the 
white subdorsal line, broken on joint 11, becomes more distinct, and its posterior part forms a 
■distinct V-mark on joint 11, Tubercles 1 on joints 5 and 12 make slight, but distinct, furcate 
processes. These disappear in the next stage. 
Fifth stage. — Head small, flat before, rounded, higher than wide; white, with a faint yellowish 
tinge; from each side of base of clypeus a band extends to vertex of each lobe, cut by a small 
spot of the ground color each side of the clypeus and a larger one opposite apex of clypeus and 
narrowly bordering clypeus above; this band is purple-brown, mottled with round dots of the 
ground color; -a similar fainter band behind the ocelli. A very slight prominence on joints 5 and 
12, low, scarcely even a hump; otherwise the body is smooth, tubercles absent, setm small, dark, 
but tubercle 6 and those on the leg can be distinguished; anal feet elevated. Body green, clear 
on the sides of joints 2-4 with a dorsal purple-brown band mottled with white, which tapers and 
-ends at joint 5. A white subdorsal shade on joiuts 5-13, diffuse downw^ard and cut by oblique 
lines of the ground color (green), broken on joint 11, the posterior part continued forward from 
joint 11 on joint 10 and becoming yellow, forms a V-inark supplemented by a few dots on joints 9 
and 11. A distinct yellow patch surrounds tubercle 1 on joints 6-8 with a yellow dotted dorsal 
shading; the spots 1 on joint 8 separated by a Y-shaped brown mark (in some cases the sides of 
Joints 5-8 are more or less covered with dark brown, mottled with whitish, being remains of the 
brown marks of the previous stage), and the brown usually prevails in a band from the spiracle 
on joint 5 back to the abdominal feet. Bases of the feet around tubercle 6 waxy white, this area 
bordered by a rather irregular brown mark. Anal plate and feet dark. Spiracles pale brown. 
Thoracic feet tinged with reddish.” 
Food Flant . — Yihnrmtm lentago. (D^ur.) 
Habits. — Besides the facts already given, the moth occurred in ISIew York in August. (Riley.) 
Geographical distribution. — Boston, Mass. (Sanborn, Shurtleff, Harris, Coll.); Dutchess 
<3ounty, R. Y. (Dyar); Orouo, Me. (Mrs. Fernald); Xittery, Me., Massachusetts, Illinois (French); 
New York (TJ, S. Nat. Mus., Dyar); New York, New Jersey (Palm), 
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