. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 28 ARCTIAD^. F/upseudosoma floridum, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 187 (1882); Kirbj-, Cat. Het. p. 205. Euchcetes immacidata, Graef. Ent. Am. iii. p. 42 (1887); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 236. Silkj' white ; pnlpi above, a bar on frons, and antennae fuscous; Tertex of head yellow ; pectus crimson in front; legs fuscous above; ab- domen crimson above with dorsal series of white points; the 1st and two terminal segments and the ventral surface Fig. 20.—Eufseudosoma involuta,
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 28 ARCTIAD^. F/upseudosoma floridum, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 187 (1882); Kirbj-, Cat. Het. p. 205. Euchcetes immacidata, Graef. Ent. Am. iii. p. 42 (1887); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 236. Silkj' white ; pnlpi above, a bar on frons, and antennae fuscous; Tertex of head yellow ; pectus crimson in front; legs fuscous above; ab- domen crimson above with dorsal series of white points; the 1st and two terminal segments and the ventral surface Fig. 20.—Eufseudosoma involuta, <^. \. white. Fore wing with the costal edge fuscous ; curved fuscous lines below the cell and vein 2 and above 5. Ab. 1. Jlorida. Fore wing with the two fuscous lines obsolete. Hah. , Florida, Palm Eeach {Dijar) 1 $; Mexico ; Cuba ; Teinidad, 1 $ {Broadway); Gdiana ; Surinam ; Brazil, Pernambuco 1 $ {H. N. Ridleij). Exp. 40-44 millim. Egg. Dyar, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1900, p. 2o8. Somewhat conoidal, base flat, apex slightly produced ; yellowish green with amber shades, later opaque whitish green ; reticulations small, regular, rounded hexagonal, slightly raised, forming a ring of small cells round the micropj^le, which is slightly oft' the centre ; laid on back of leaf in a mass or scattered. Larva. Stage 1. Head somewhat rounded and bilobed; clypeus high ; antennae moderate ; primary setae short, black, distinct; i. and ii. rather near vertex, iii. at middle of lobe, iv. near ocelli, three behind ocelli (one inclosed) and two above antennae; jaws brown; ocelli black. Body arctiform, with large tubercles and thick spinulose white hair ; segments contracted ; no shields; tubercles i. a -f i. 6 + ii. a on somites 2-3 distinctly united on a flattened fan-shaped wart ; ii. h small, posterior ; iv. large ; vi. dark r on abdominal somites i. small, dark ; iv. stigmatal, posterior, rather small; v. larger; setas single, no subprimaries; body a little flattened ; the latera
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