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Psyche 12:115-116, 1905.

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LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOMETRIDAE-LXIII. ,t-and whf so
BY HARRISOX G. DYAR, WASHIKCTON, D. C,
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Egg.
Elliptical, very strongly flattened, concave, slightly wedge-shaped In '
side view, the ends rounded; evenly reticulate in broad, rounded ridges, wavy, stellate hexagons!, rather smalier on the flat sides. Dark bluish green, turning, red around the margin.
Size -3 x .5 x .3 mm.
Sage I. Head rounded, brownish luteous, sutures darker. Body moderate, . rather short, luteous, dark olive green shaded broadly over the dorsum except on -
joints z and 13 posteriorly : venter faintly dark shaded. No shields ; tubercles
and setae obscure, tubercles slightly elevated, but concolorous, setae stout, pale, quite small, enlarged at tip.
Stage II.
Head luteous, slightly bibbed; width .5 mm. Body moderate grayish green with broad ventral purple brown stripe and faint, narrow, pale lines, two showing in the subdorsal region. Feet dark within; tubarctes and setae obsolete.
Stags Iff.
Head round, full, flattish before, greenish white with a straight brown mottling on the sides; width .9 mm. Body moderate, green, the dorsum
with five parallel olivaceous blackish bands as wide as the interspaces; .venter broadly smoky blackish. No shields; thoracic feet shaded darker; abdominal ones pale without; tubercles minute, setae fine, dark. St@ IV. Head bibbed, oblique, pale greenish luteous with whitish shades, b
a brown flush on the sides, the angle below the eyes and antennae whitish ; width 1.5 mm. Body uniform, rather flattened, anal feet large; obscure whitish, not strongly green, a broad subdorsal geminate band more whitish; stigmata1 fold pate yellow; A ventral
vinous brown shade staining the bases of the feet. T-'bercles obsolete, setae fine, dark, obscure. A subventral dark spot on joint 6. V.
Head bilobed, thicker at apex, pale brown shaded, a curved dark and across above c1 ypsus and a yellow one on the side behind the eyes ; mm. Body moderate, uniform, a somewhat raised black patch sub- atrally on joint 6.
All yellow brown shaded; dorsal, subdorsal, lateral, sub- ntral geminate blackish lines, broken, powdery, the dorsal appearing as inter- gmenial spots, the others broken intersegmentally, giving an effect of obscure transverse bands on central part of body. Dark blotches at the bases
racic feet, especially on joint 4; tubercles small, dark, setae dusky,



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The larvae fed on the balsam poplar {Puftiths baslamca')- eggs from Kaslo, British Columbia. July 27, mature larva in Saptember. The species is double
brooded with hibernation in the pupal stage.



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