1 894 J 395 TDyar. 
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. 
Fourth stage. — 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 
band extends to middle of side posteriorly, ending in a blackish shade and 
continuous with an oblique line on the body which extends over the spiracle 
(m joint 2 and ends on joint 3 at the lateral line; palpi reddish ; width 2.5 
mm. Body smooth, green, with a broad, geminate, white dorsal band 
(addorsal lines), filled in with dull red in some specimens; a narrow waved 
subdorsal 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 oblique line 
on joints 2-3 is yellow below and smoky red above and may be faintly 
repeated on joint 4. Setae 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 posteriorly, full, plump, cylindrical. A broad, yellowish 
white geminate dorsal band, 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 cleai", soft green. Thoracic feet reddish, black at tip. Setae 
extremely minute except on the legs. Claspers brownish. Length about 
30 mm. 
The species is double brooded at Plattsburgh, N. Y., single brooded in the 
Adirondack?, though a single <J emerged the same season. 
■Si/n opals of the Larvae of Lophodonta . 
Smooth green N'otodontiaus, all the feet used, th.' head held 
out flat ; resting on a perch when young. 
A continuous red stigmatal line the whole length angulosa. 
A stigmatal red line on joints 2-3 only, turned up at the 
end ....... ferrxginea. 
ScHizuRA xiTiDA Packard (= hadia Pack.). 
Received from Mr. Jacob Doll from the vicinity of Xew York 
City. 
Egg. — More than hemispherical, flat on the base, covered with shallow, 
rounded hexagonal areas, not distinctly defined and becoming obscure and 
