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Psyche 9:371-372, 1900.

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~uly, 1902~ PS YCHE. 87 1
service to the student who may under-
take the task I abandon. It is only in
the first two subfamilies that genera and species are considered, and 1 have there- fore adopted for this collection of frag- ments the title given above.
Subfamily EUPLOEINAE.
K~~.tz'erfly : Pal pi stout, tufted with hairs. Antennae naked, arcuate, the
club drooping, tolerably well marked.
Fore legs of both sexes excessively atro- phied, short and nearly naked. Fore
wings long but ample ; none of the nerv- ures swollen at the base ; internal nervure present; discal cell of hind wings long
and closed by an interrupted vein ; costal nervure terminating at middle of costal
border. Abdomen unusually long and
slender, the males with anal tufts of
prutrusile hairs. Colors of wings gener- ally massive and generally very similar
above and beneath. Egg; Sugarloaf
shaped, considerably higher than broad,
truncate and scarcely rounded at base,
with slight vertical ribs and small cells at the outer borders of the crown.
Cat-
erpillar at birth : Head no larger than
segments following. Body cylindrical,
uniform, unicolorous ; ranged append -
ages simple tapering hairs usually shorter than the segments.
LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOMETRIDAE. -XXXIII. BY HARRISON G. DYAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.
Ewdro-pia &aria Guenfe.
B~K- Laid loose, rolling. Elliptical with only traces of the side flattening8 and end truncation, smooth, somewhat like hens eggs though more evenly alike at the lwo ends. Reticulations absent, represented only by the angle pores which are arranged in fine hex- agonal pattern and look like light dots in the shadows. All pale yellow. Size .9 X .55 mtn. They turned bright red in a day or
two and black before hatching.
Staye I. Head rounded, erect, free ; sooty brown black, the clypeus, a little dot each side and epistoma white ; width .4 mm.
Body
moderate, normal with rounded wing-like ele- rations laterally on joints 5 to 9, Purple black with five dotted, transverse interscg- mental white bands on joints .1; to g anteri- orly, cut by narrow dorsal and lateral lines of the ground color ; a few whitish dots on joint 13 anteriorly. Bands narrowed to ob- solescence ventrally ; feet dark.
Stag's II. Head vinous brown, a bright
white spot in the clypeus, two on each side, one on base of antennae, base of labium and a small geminate one on face of lobe;
width
.6 mm. Body, robust, a little inflated cen- trally, a round prominence, bearing tubercle iv, most distinct on joints 5 and 6.
Ground
color sordid brown, mottled and faintly lon- gitudinally lined in darker and with streaks of pale dottings ; two oblique white spots subdoi-sally anteriorly on the segments, one before the dark vinous spol covering tubercle iv, elongate and obscurely trilohed ;
ventral
streaking irregularly brightened into nearly while. Tubercles and selae obscure.
Stage III.
Head rounded, squarish, broad,
lobes full at vertex, flat before, erect. White, heavily black nio\lled over lobes, leaving a



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white space at vertex and near clypcus ; SLY tnres dark, epistoma brownish ; width 1.1 mm. Body nortnal, rather thick, the area oi tubercle iv slightly cushiony elevated. Pur- plisli brown, tubercles iv and vii dark velvety brown ; addorsal, subdorsal, lateral, substig- ,natal and subventral narrow, faint, dotted, white lines ; two obliquely placed, round, slightly elevated white spots subcloi-sally an- tcriorl? on joints 5 to 7, one on 8. Lateral anterior white patch of four subconfluent elevated spots between tlie black tubercle iv and the front edge of the segment on joints 5 to 8. A rounded, elevated, unpaired, dor- sal prominence on joint 12 ; sides of 13 whit- ish. Feet pale, the thoracic of pint 4 and the abdominal ones, especially those of joint 13 black marked. Tubercles and setae small, black. Venter doubly, obliquely, dark
streaked, forming a broad lattice work in diamond shape.
Stage IV. Head rounded, disk-like, flat
before, a broad margin all around, flattened and shallowly notched at vertex. Face mot- tled with large, subconfluent, white spots, separated by black dotting's and with an irreg- ul;ir black rim ; sides and vertex gray, of brown mottlings on awhitish ground ; width 1.8 mm. Body nearly cylindrical, smooth, the dark spot at tubercle iv scarcely elevated. Gray, thespot at iv dark brown on joints 5 to 10; venter lighter with irregular dotting, suggesting a diamond pattern. Dorsnm
finely lined and anarbled with blackish on a grayer ground, the bright white dots two subdorsiil and two above, a streak below the stigmata1 region, both anterior: conspicuous on joint 6, smaller and partly absent on the other segments. Tubercles in black spots ; -~
setae very shorl. pile brown.
Ground color
lnlcous gray, the area abont the dark tnber- ,
cles i lighter, looking tessellated.
Sk,p V Head rounded, somewhat flat
be-forc, thick, slightly bilobed ; whitish, mottled with gray-luteous, white on face, black bordered, dotted, the "black edge de- pressed to apex of clypens, covering the apices of the paraclypeal pieces ; epistomagreenish ; width 2.7 mm. Body normal, thick, eqnal
and cylindrical, a cylindrical papilla bearing tubercle ii on joint 12 about twice as long as thick; tubercle iv of joint 12 elevated and white. Anal plate large, rounded triangular ; anal foot plates elongate triangular. Thora- cic feet moderate, pale, Subventral fold waved, distinct. Ocherous wood brown, the dorsilm checkered in large segmentary dia- monds, edged by lateral waved black rnot- tlings that reach the subdorsal region inter- segmentally and depressed to tubercle iii segmentarily, nearly absent on joints 10 to 13. Thorax darker brown, obscurely. Two
rounded, obliquely placed, small white spots on joint 6 and white dots behind tubercle ii throiighont ; white dots behind tubercle iv and, on joint 6, several dots before the spira- cle. A slight transverse ridge on joint 12 bearing the papillae (ii), black before, white behind. Subventral ridge &lighLly pale.
Venter marked like dorsum with a black
mottled lattice on a brownish ground, but less distinctly. Tubercle i black marked, distinct in the pale brown areas.
Food@d
The larvae ate wild cherry.
Eggs from a $ taken at the mouth ol the
Platte Canyon, twenty miles from Denver, Colorado ; eggs June 8th, mature larva July 8th.
A. SMITH & SONS, 146-148 WILLIAM ST., New York. MA\UlUIIEIES AM) IMPORTEIES OF
GOODS FOR ENTOMOLOGISTS,
Klaeger and Carlsbad Insect Pins, Setting Boards, Folding Nets, 1.ocality and
Special Labels, Forceps, Sheet Cork, Etc. Other erticles are being added, Sendfor List.



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