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Psyche 7:340-341, 1894.

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77 A. im!c~sLz'iiaLi.r Say. lwt once on the dates ~nentioned. All R~atz'czul ~uZti~o~~emis and i~iter- hik~ernate heneath logs, usually those så£z'~iaZi are rather common tho~~gh- in smdy localities. Six aclditional out the winter. The others are rase species of the gems have been tdcw at any time and in winter were taken in the county. FINAL NOTES ON ORGYIA.
BY HARRISON G, DYAR, NEW 170RK CITY.
Since 1nj7 fomer papers in Psyche
on our species of Kotoioplms {formerly
Orgyia), I have bred several of the
western forms with the view of estab-
lisl~ing their ~*elationsl~ips. The species have been carried through several gcn-
ercitions and I have t11~1s had them con- tin~~o~~sly before me for three years.
T11e following conclusions Imvi been
arrived at.
Notolophus vetusta Boisd,
gdosa I-Iy. Edw. ; cam I3y. Edw.
I recognize but one spccies in Cali-
fornia,
I have bred a large number of
the larvac of the Iupim feeding form
(vetwfa) raised from eggs kindly sent
me by Mr. T, G. 0. Muellcs, Mr. Bev-
erly Letcher 2nd Dr. 13. El. l3ehr.
Tlwy do not differ from those of N.
gaZosa which I have already described
and I found tlmn by no ~nexns fastidi-
OLIS as to their food plants. The char-
actcrs noted by the late He111 y Edwards to separate tl~cm, 1 find to be only indi- vidiial onesl present in varying degrees in ciiKerent ex~mples from bsoods of
b~th vezhshz and gzdosa. The direr-
enccs in thc imotl~s also are of the same character. 1 for~~~crly stated (Psj che, yi, 40) that Mr. Edwt~rds 11ad con-
founded the mdhs. I see now that
this was psubal~ly not the case, but
that he bred from larvae on lupine the
form that C bred from larvae on oak,
and the contradiction was due to insufi- ciency of material in both Ms. Edwards'
ha11~1s and my own. In the case of
cma, 1 slio~~ec~ that there were two
black ttlfts $11 the young larvzi, whereas gulosa had but one s~ich. D~iring my
I~reeding of gulosa among n~~~nbers uf
larvae raised f~om the egg. a few ap-
peared with the two lhck t~~fts. l'hese
wwe isolated md the resulting n~otl~s
paired together. The Iasvae from their
eggs the next season were dl of the
ca~a form. The lawae) however, from
the moths from wliich all the t;am
forms 11ad been eliminated varied again
the next year) producing about 3 per
cent cam. Now if we consider that all
the other specics of Notohpl~us have
the two antwior tufts colored alike, it
becomes appasent tlmt this is :i case of sevession in gzdosa and so the gre:tter
stability of tile cmza form is accounted for.. The sea-coast form, vetasta-
gdusa, is tl~us seen to be a modified
o%shoot of' the more ge~~eri~lizml one
inliahiting the interior of California ;



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but it has not yet divcrged from it in a specific degrce, since a re~-ersiot~ may be rcadily obtained, The motlis of
cana were described as ditlerent fl-om
the coast form, h t the only two ~nales
wliicli I have scen ale so considerably
unlike mil so near to vetusta that I do
not hesitate to consider their diEesences as simply varietal.
Notolophus antiqua Linn.
novtz Fitch ; 6adia 1-Iy. Edw.
I have i~red the English form fi-otn
eggs liindly sent me by MI.. J. R.
Wilson. The larvae were exactly like
our New York ones ; but exhibited four
stagcs for male and five for female
larvae, as seems to be possil>le it1 Llie case of all the species or this ~CIILIS. The side tufls appca~ed in stuge iv or
iraccs in some la]-vae as cad! a5 stage
. ..
111. I can tlins positively confirm the
identity of aztipa and nova. T11e
tnotlis were alike. As LC] the Vmlcouver Island 6adia, 1 liave bred these fro~n
the eggs o~-igin~~ll~~ obtained there for three years. It will be retne~nbei-ed
that jadia is c1iaracLcrixed by tlic
absence ol' thc side tufts. E1oweve1-,
among the large numbes obtained, I
not i~~frequently foiitid traces of the side tufts or eveu a well developed pencil,
especialljr i11 large fc~nale larvae. When PI-esent, the L L ~ L S had exactly the same characters as in nor~nal antt'qua, and it appears that we I~ave in badin 21 form
in wliiclt the side LuSts (:I lately ac- quired c11.11-acter in the genus) appear later tlian us~ial or even not at all.
That is jadia repesents a more gen-
eralized co~~dition t11a11 ill Lhe dornit~ant race which extends over so wide an
.
area. 1 hat it car~~iot be a dcgencrate
fat-111, in wliich the tufts a]-e clisktp- pearing, is shown by the fact that they
appear only in the last stage, and most
frequently in females, which have an
additio~~al stage. lri a degenerate forn~ we sho~11d expect to see the pencils,
w11e11 present, appear in stage iv, as
usd, and beconle obsolete in the later
stages. I think that the fact of the
actual ~ I - C S ~ C ~ of the tufts in badia, though not unive1-sa1, together with
their read! fertility with nor~niztl an.ti- pa, must co~i~pel LIS to place btzdia as 21 Iucal race of antiqua, tho~~gll a more distinct onc than in the case of the Cali- fornim species just described. The
moth of hadin often cliEers nxtrl<edly
fro111 the antipa pattern, though not
comtantly so.
Notolophus leucostigma A. & S.
Zez~cop~pha Gey er ; inke~mxh'a
Fitcli ; 6urealir k'ik11 ; uhliviosa Hy. Edw. ; &zovm&c Beut.
The fil-st font- of these synonymic
names refer to clescriptions or fignres of the 111otli. In Fsyclie (vi> 4.20, notc) I referred ino?xata to this species. Mr.
Be~~tcnn~iiller, however, has not ac-
cepted the s!-noiiyin. but stntm (Journ. K. Y. ent. sac., ii, 30, note) that L. the larva is totall> distinct from t11c w~ll ~IIOWII hucostig~na.'' I liave, there-
fore, carefully compared Mr. Beuten-
mtiller's description wit11 specimens of Zestcostignza. His descriptiott FIIIIS as follows: '& . . . Bmly abox.c III~LIS~
color, wiLh t111.c~ rows olmnge tnbercles along eacli side. Each ~ul~ercle 1x0-




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vided with a bunch of silveq EI ay hairs. . . . Fro111 the eighth segment to the
end of the body there is a broad black
stripe. . . . ~ndcrsidc yello\visl~ grce11 . . ." I have omitted pasts of the
clescription which apply equally to Jew
costi'ma. Now in Zeucosti~~na the
ground color is gray or G z mouse color," b11L the dorsal black hnd is edged 1 ) ~ a wicle xellow stripe. If this stripe lx
absent or greatly 1-cc1uced in ino~nata, as the description i111,plies, it \vould give to the hrva a V~I-y diffc~.c~~t ap- 1x11-anee, '' totally distinct " pel-haps as Mr. Be~~tcnn~iill~r says ; but I cann~t
con~~i~~ee 111j-sclS that we have to do
wit11 more than a variety or possibly a
local nee of le~~osfigma. The yAlow
111arki11gs are variable in vetzsfa' and antipa.
Head ycllow, co101.s in genenl pile . d<hnifa Head red.
-4 distinct yellow s~~bdossd band . . Zezcost~&~a Gray ma1-1cs ~I-~~OIII~IMII~, the ~~Ilow band not noticeabk \rar. inornata tl'ad black.
W~I-ts CI-~II~SOII, ~~rus~~-~ike t~~fts ~l?~rl< long the crest, the ello ow lines alnng the sides 11roIce11 into spots.
NOTES OX TITE ACRIDID-$E OF NEW EXGLAND.-11. TRYX- ALIhrAE.-II.
BY ALBERT P. MORSE, WELI.ESLE3-, MASS.
5. PSEUDOPOMAIA gen. nov. by Stil (= Metalepea Brunner, Rev. p. I 181, and in the absence of adequate Type : O$omaJa brachy$te?,a S~LICICI,
description of structural characters and This species belongs to a genus not
being the generic type a so~mcwl~at fdl
tabulate? by Brunner in his Re\-ision description is appended. wliicl~ is allicd to T~,wxaZi.v as defi~led 111 my preliminary list 1 referred this
* 1 resrct that the rule of priorixy prevents giving the specific positionlo the mole generdized form



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