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but paler anteriorly and terminally and fulvous along the 
( Posterior wings translucent, nearly white in some lights, 
* in others, dusky on anterior margin and on anterior half 
‘i* margin. Head, thorax, and abdomen, nearly uniform gray ; 
with a Y-shaped black mark in front. 
a .—The larvae collected this autumn were dark, the general 
being that of a nearly black insect with a broad buff band 
the stigmata, and a narrow yellow subdorsal line. The dor- 
black or a very dark brown with a yellow median line, and 
ar white lineations along the border of the dorsal space. The 
sal band is also black, slightly mottled along the lower margin, 
13d above by a yellow line which is itself bordered above and 
by a shade of deeper black. The stigmatal band is drab, 
1 with pale brown; the stigmata black, partly within the sub- 
tal band and partly within the subdorsal band. In one 
en, the dorsum is pale chocolate brown with scarcely a 
af the median line. The heads in all are jet black ex- 
n the sides, behind the eyes, where they are somewhat 
:1 with whitish. The Y-shaped mark upon the front is white 
:eply impressed. The cervical shield is black, with the median 
id subdorsal yellow lines continued upon it. Upon the caudal 
the median line widens to a more or less triangular blotch, 
ibrum is brown, the basal joint of the antenme is wholly 
the second joint white with a black ring at the base, and the 
oint brown. The venter is greenish brown beneath the buff 
band, becoming nearly yellow towards the bases of the pro- 
Each of the latter has a glossy black patch upon its outer 
1 :3. Between these legs the surface is a brownish green. The 
ventral area is finely mottled with yellow.* 
DISTRIBUTION. 
luenee, this species is reported to occur in North and South 
i ?a, and likewise to have been received by him from Tasmania. 
following is the description of the larva and pupa of this species given by Mr. 
, i page 117 of his Third Report as State Entomologist of Missouri: 
a.—Ground color very variable, generally dark and pitchy black when young, but 
1 after the last moult from palp brown to pale dirty green, with more or less pink 
iv admixed—all the markings produced by fine, more or less intense, brown, crim- 
’ yellow mottlings. Dorsum brownish with a narrow line down the middle, ren- 
•nspicuous by a darker shade each side of it. A dark, subdorsal band one-third 
as each joint is long; darkest at its upper edge, where it is bordered and dis- 
i eparated from dorsum by a yellow line which, except on joint 11, where it deflects 
i pwards, is quite straight; paler in the middle of each joint. A pale, either buff or 
i lored substigmatal band, ^ordered above and below by a narrow, yellow and 
I ie. Venter pale. Head pale yellowish brown, with sometimes a tinge of green or 
e triangular piece yellowish, the Y-mark distinct and white, the cheeks with four 
less distinct lateral brown lines and with dark brown mottlings and nettings, 
ecome confluent and form a dark curved mark at the submargin behind the 
! ind each side of the stem of the Y. Stigmata large, brown, with a pale annula- 
1 just within the lower edge of the dark subdorsal band. Legs either light or 
ervical shield darker than body with the narrow dorsal and subdorsal lines ex- 
conspicuously through it; anal plate also dark, narrow and margined by the pale 
al lines-both plates furnishing stiff hairs, but without tubercles. Piliferous 
i s on joints 2 and 3, arranged in a transverse row, and quite large, especially on 
i :>n joints 4-10 the superior eight are arranged as follows: 4 in a trapezoid in dor- 
1 e, the posterior two as far again from each other as the anterior two, and two 
stigmata, one above and one behind; on joint 11 the dorsal 4 are in a square, and 
j 12 in a trapezoid, with the posterior and not the anterior ones nearest together; 
i acic joints have each a large subventral tubercle just above the legs. Length 
inch. Described from numerous specimens. 
i— Formed in the ground, without cocoon; of normal form, bright mahogany- 
md with a distinct forked point at extremity. 
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