. The American entomologist. Entomology. THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 287 ;Utracted by light. It is quite rare and I the wings being somewhat narrower, the apex of has never been found except about the Trumijet vine. Neither the egg nor the mode of ovipo- sition have been observed, though Miss Mary E. Murtfeldt, of Kirkwood, Mo., who was the first to observe the larva, and primaries more rounded; by the median vein of secondaries not being naked; by the pocliet at the base of the front wings of the fj having the opening less oblique and lacking the springs or bristles inside (described in that g
. The American entomologist. Entomology. THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 287 ;Utracted by light. It is quite rare and I the wings being somewhat narrower, the apex of has never been found except about the Trumijet vine. Neither the egg nor the mode of ovipo- sition have been observed, though Miss Mary E. Murtfeldt, of Kirkwood, Mo., who was the first to observe the larva, and primaries more rounded; by the median vein of secondaries not being naked; by the pocliet at the base of the front wings of the fj having the opening less oblique and lacking the springs or bristles inside (described in that genus as keep- ing the pocket open), but more particularly by the sculpture of the costal margin of the primar- has carefully searched for the eggs, believes ies, which is here irregularly undulate with four that they are inserted under the cuticle of the full-grown, green pod, as she has fre- (|ucntly found on such, small blistery eleva- tions, each containing what appeared to be particles of the egg-shell, and concealing a minute puncture in the pod through which indentions, deepest in the ', , two basal ones about the middle of the wing in a rather broad and shallow excavation, the third being slight and the fourth, which is subterminal, still more shallow, and inade between a subterminal bulg- ing and the apex: the basal third of wing .is strongly convex to shoulder. Antenna alike in. the newly hatched larva had evident- ly entered. The peculiarly flatten- ed and spatulate nature of the ovi- positor rather con- firms this observa- tion. The moth is gray- ish in color,—front wings having pur- plish-brown mark- ings with a few or- angt; spots and a white dash at the outer third of the front or costal mar- gin which is char- acteristically wavy. The female (Fig. P52,/) is somewhat larger than the male (Fig. 152, ,!,'?), and he is at once distin- guished from her by having a curious jiorket on the costal border at the base of the front wings. The figures here used were made so
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