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Phigalia strigataria, Minot. 
The fore part of .Tune of the past season, I found a larva of this 
specimen feeding on roses at Carbondale. It was then full grown, and 
soon entered the ground and transformed to a brown, slightly pubes¬ 
cent chrysalis. The worm was about an inch long, dark color with 
light dorsal and lateral lines ) the dark being shaded somewhat by 
interrupted faint light lines. The dark color was brown or dusky 
reddish brown, while the light was dirty white or gray on the back, 
and dirty yellow on the sides. I am told by Mr. C. E. Worthington, 
of Chicago, that this caterpillar feeds on elm in that vicinity. The 
worms change to chrysilids in June, and the moths emerge the fol¬ 
lowing March. 
Like the Canker worms, the females of this species are wingless, 
but the wings are more developed here, reaching to the posterior edge 
of the second abdominal segment. The males are pale ash colored 
with dark brown specks and lines, these forming three blackish trans¬ 
verse lines across the fore wings, with a subterminal whitish line. 
Hind wings whitish, finely dusted with dark scales. Antenna? well 
pectinated. Expanse of wings in males from 1 35 to 1.60 inches. 
The females are, according to Packard, light stone gray, with an in¬ 
distinct double row of dorsal black spots, the species is rare and not 
likely to become injurious. 
Phigalia (?) cinctaria, French. 
. ^he 28th of last May, I found a gray geometrid worm, about an 
inch long, banded transversely with a number of white bands, on an 
apple tree in an orchard belonging to Mr. G. W. St. John, of Irving¬ 
ton. June 6th the worm moulted, when all but one of the white 
bands were replaced by dark brown, the ground color remaining the 
same. It was now about an inch and a half long. By the middle of 
the month it ceased eating and entered into the ground and trans¬ 
formed into a robust, dark brown chrysalis, a little more than half an 
inch long, thickly covered with coarse punctures, with two short di¬ 
vergent bristles at the tip. This remained in the dirt through the 
winter, and produced a wingless female moth the 27th of March, 1878. 
This differed so much from the known females of this group that I 
sent it to Dr. Packard for identification, who replied that “it is en¬ 
tirely new to me and a good deal of a puzzle, as I do not know to 
what genus to refer it. It is allied to the female of Phigalia more 
.an to Anmpteryx or Hybernia ” As the males of all*the other 
wingless species of the group are known, I will provisionally place 
:his in the genus Phigalia until the male may be found and the gen¬ 
eric characters of the species can be more fully’' determined. If, in 
;he meantime, it should prove to be injurious to the apple trees,’its 
labits being similar to the Canker worm, the remedies that are appli¬ 
cable to that species would be equally so with this. 
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