. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history. Bulletin, So. Calif. Academy of Sciences Vol. 60, Part 1, 1961. â â ^&4t<«%.Y PLATE 15 Egg of Fcnialdclla fiiiictaria enlarged X approximately 50. Reproduced from painting by the author. THE EGG AND FIRST LARVAL INSTAR OF FERNALDELLA FIMETARIA (GROTE & ROBINSON) On June 19, 1958 I received a group of eggs of the beautiful little moth, FcrnaldcUa fimetaria from Noel McFarland. They were obtained by him two days earlier, from a gravid female collected at Apple Valley, Mojave Desert,
. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history. Bulletin, So. Calif. Academy of Sciences Vol. 60, Part 1, 1961. â â ^&4t<«%.Y PLATE 15 Egg of Fcnialdclla fiiiictaria enlarged X approximately 50. Reproduced from painting by the author. THE EGG AND FIRST LARVAL INSTAR OF FERNALDELLA FIMETARIA (GROTE & ROBINSON) On June 19, 1958 I received a group of eggs of the beautiful little moth, FcrnaldcUa fimetaria from Noel McFarland. They were obtained by him two days earlier, from a gravid female collected at Apple Valley, Mojave Desert, California. The Egg is regularly cylindrical, slightly flattened, with acutely rounded ends. Length, .75 mm, width, .3 mm. by .15 mm. Color, deep green. The surface has a finely granular appearance, due to a covering of minute hexagonal pits, more or less regularly ar- ranged in rows. The eggs are usually laid in rope-like rows, attached at their small ends, thus resembling soldered chains. The eggs hatched June 27, 1958, which gives an incubation period of ten days. First Instar Larva. Length, mm. Head width, approxi- mately .3 mm. which is wider than the first thoracic segment. The head is a bright yellow, with a tinge of orange. Ocelli, black. The body is cylindrical. The ground color is light yellow. There is a relatively wide middorsal band of bright yellow, bordered laterally by a wide black band. Latero-inferior thereto the body is a lighter yellow. The ventral surface is slaty-black. Numerous small black dots occur on the body, each, topped by a single short colorless hair. The legs, and two pairs of prolegs are yellow. The food plant of F. fiinctaria is unknown, and I was unable to find a plant that was acceptable to the young larvae. The species is widely distributed, from the Rocky Mountains south to Texas, and west to Arizona, Nevada and California. The moth is illustrated in Packard's Monograph of the Geo- metrid Moths, U. S. Geol. Survey (Hayden's), Plate
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