. Annual report on the New York State Museum of Natural History. Science. 132 Twenty-sixth Report on the State Museum, red, somewhat in the form of a script x, and less distinct reticulations of the same. Body presenting a peculiarly mottled appearance from its irregular and broken stripes; its general color dull red ; on each segment an irregular band of brighter red ; a whitish vascular line within a broken gray stripe; a better defined lateral stripe just above the stigmata, within which, on each segment from the third to the eighth inclusive, are four black depressed spots arranged in a ri
. Annual report on the New York State Museum of Natural History. Science. 132 Twenty-sixth Report on the State Museum, red, somewhat in the form of a script x, and less distinct reticulations of the same. Body presenting a peculiarly mottled appearance from its irregular and broken stripes; its general color dull red ; on each segment an irregular band of brighter red ; a whitish vascular line within a broken gray stripe; a better defined lateral stripe just above the stigmata, within which, on each segment from the third to the eighth inclusive, are four black depressed spots arranged in a right angle, the upper three in line, the largest of which rests on the crown of the segment, with two behind it and one before; the substigmatal fold is white on the anterior portion of each segment and red on the remainder; rows of tubercles from which clusters of red hairs of unequal length proceed, which, on the anterior segments, incline to yellow; on the first, second, fourth and eleventh segments each, superiorly, are two pencils of red hairs nearly one-fourth of an inch in length, darker at the tips and slightly feathered. (These pencils made their appearance after the last molting.) Stigmata encircled with brown. Legs red. In the accompanying illustration (Fig. 7) is represented the habit Fig. 7. and attitude of the larva in feeding. With its terminal pair of legs clasping the leaves at the sheath, it extends its body along a leaf until it commences to bend, when, by detaching succes- sively the first and following pairs of prolegs, it forces the leaf through its legs until its tip is held between them, in the attitude shown in the figure. When the leaf has been eaten from its tip downward, as far as the contracted segments of the larva will permit, it moves to another leaf, and feeds upon it after the same manner. I have observed the same method of feeding in the nearly full-grown larvae of Ellema Ilarrisii Clemens. Two of the larvse above described underwent their last
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