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patch in clypeus ; eye and antennae black. Body light yellowish green, 
the furcate spines paler except the thoracic ones which are black tipped. 
Feet on joints 6—12, 13, the thoracic ones short, scarcely visible from 
above. 
Stage V. _Patch in clypeus brown; body green, dorsal vessel less 
contrasting. 
Stage VI.— Head green, clypeus brownish, eye black. Body rather 
opaque careen, a little whitish dorsally from diffuse fat, dorsal vessel 
darker green. Furcate spines whitish, dusky tipped on joints 2 and 3 
and faintly on anal flap. 
Stage VII. —(Ultimate.) Smooth, waxy greenish, eye black; shin¬ 
ing, indistinctly annulate, dorsal vessel green. Cocoon in the ground , 
single brooded. 
Found on the black oak (Q. coccined) in Van Cortlandt Park, N. 
Y., in May. 
Periclista chionanthi Murtfeldt , (M S.). 
9 . Shining black ; tips of femora and tibiae du 1 luteous, tarsi dusky ; angles of 
prothorax narrowly andtegulm whitish. Wings h) aline, nervures brown-black ; second 
recurrent nervure received at basal third of third submarginal cell. One middle cell in 
hind wings. Length, 5-5 mm - 
Two 9 9 , Coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. (Miss Murtfeldt), no. 296 M. 
Larva .—Head shining black, mouth parts only pale. Segments in¬ 
distinctly 5-annulate, spines furcate, moderate, two on second (spirac- 
ular) annulet, three on fourth, two on each subventral fold, all furcate 
except the pair on lower subventral fold. Body yellowish with numer¬ 
ous fat granules, a broken subdorsal black shade, distinct at the bases 
of the second spines. Dorsal spines black-ringed at base. Thoracic 
feet small, abdominal moderate on joints 6-12, 13; rests on venter on 
surface of leaf. “Slug on white fringe ”( Chionanthus), Kirkwood, 
Mo., Dept. Agriculture no. 4048 bis. 
Periclista media Norton. 
Sitting on the venter on the surface of young leaves of white oak 
((A alba), eating circular holes, solidary. 
" Stage I— Head very pale brown, eye black; width .3 mm. Body 
translucent whitish, food brownish ; covered with short colorless Y- 
shaped spines, thick and with short shaft, the limbs blunt, apparently 
arranged as in the later stages. 
Stage II— Head and body translucent, colorless, eye black ; width 
.4 mm. Spines with long shaft and sharp recurved branches extending 
