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December 18g7.] PSYCHE. 155
me.
The egg is nactuid and the larva a true
semi-looping noctuid in primitive first stage, * the single setae stiff, bulbous at lip, per- fectly normal and the subpri~naries absent. The larva is excluded from both Arctians znd Lithosians by the bulbous setae, us Dr. Packard has shown that no Arctian has glan- dular hairs. 'Further the thonicic tubercles remove it from the Litbosians. Again the shortening of the first two pair of abdominal feet never occurs in the Arctian phylum, but is characteristic of the semilooping Noctuids.
It seems evident that the Cydosiinafi are Noctuids, the character of vein 8 of second- aries being here deceptive, but paralleled t(s/y/m on Andromeda tigu.<;tri?/a. We had never been able to make them eat anything except Vacciwinm corymtosum and Gaylus-
saci'a frondosa. We found also Sumict cecro- pia on Gfiyliissacia frofidosu ; JSacles imi3eri- a h on Prtmu serotina ; Stnerintlivs myops on birch, willow, and poplar; Dataua dress- eltiion ffamamelis; S. gordhon Andromeda I'gt;.s/rina; S. excoecatus on Spiraea salici- folia; H, to on Trifoimrn refens; E. cSoe- ritus on Kalmia mgisiifolia.
We found one larva of Smednthus inyofs
having the spots of a clear mauve color
instead of red or brown; and a larva of H. fhisbe all red except the dorsal area and first segment.
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in some species of Acontia in the Noctuidae, We found on elder a large sphinx larva of a as I have had occasion to notice.
chocolate brown with obliques and face lines Harrisou G. Dyiir.
of paler brown, like 5'. chorsis* except in color.
This had been hut in some way and
NOTES ON UNUSUAL FOOP PLANTS,
^ed.
ETC. CaroI;'ne G, Sonle.
THIS autumn Mks Eliot and I found in
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October 2, 1897.
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