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[[underline]] Molt Aug 5 [[/underline]] Hd dark red brown, densely granulated, minutely pilose. A large round wavy spot each side mouth. Jaws black, eyes pale on black ground W 4.7 mm Body C-spot stig dark wine red rest of j 2 carmine Spiracles black. Body yellow with many transverse pale grayish lines becoming irregular in stigmatal region. On each seg a trans. black band, replaced by grayish on dorsum & broken above spiracles. Spiracles black venter pale.  The feet on joint 2 dark crimson on 3 & 4 dirty orange. One the abd segs coppery red. Anal plate tinged with orange. They gray bands tend a little to black at the sides.
[[underline]] Coon Aug 22 [[/underline]] leaves held together by thread
[[underline]] Pupa Aug 24 [[/underline]] Cylindrical, thorax robust, wing cases large, eyes prominent, thorax arched, depressed behind it, abd segs rapidly rounded ^ [[insertion]] especially [[/insertion]] from below, last seg blunt cremaster long & large, turned down and fastened by its terminal hooks in trans. threads other of which [[?id]] pupa. An elongated velvety black spot above the eye, & another smaller one above & in line with this. each side. Color red brown, rather light on body, obscured by a dull greenish striae  on thorax cases, closely covered by fine black [[strikethrough]] radiate [[/strikethrough]] lines [[?fully]] in 2 [[?]] longitudinal & transverse, the body thickly dotted with black. Cremaster black. L 22 mm W 8mm

[[underline]] Imago [[/underline]] March 5 1891

Eudamus tityrus


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Eggs laid by Spilosoma virginica June 18, 1890. (Laid in [[insertion]] (on window curtain) [[/insertion]] in small patches on back of leaf). 

[[underline]] Egg [[/underline]] obtusely conoidal, the base flat. Shiny but appearing minutely punctured. Color yellow. Diam. .7 mm.

[[underline]] Molt [[/underline]] Sept 28. Hd pale testaceus, largely black except in sutures, labrum, mouth. [[insertion]]  & antennae pale; shiny. W 32 Body pale dull brownish speckled with blackish, dorsum (s-d sp) & venter black. Warts ④ sub stig post ⑦ present also on 13 ant. but very small - large pale (dark on venter) Hair abundant of irregular length foxy red, blackish near head. The feet pale Spiracle abd. shiny black ant. white [[/insertion]] 

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[[underline]] [[overwrite]] 5 [[/overwrite]] Molt Aug 3 [[/underline]] Hd green, sutures of Δ pl & 2 lines || with these above & eyes black mouth pale ant 2 singed black, jaws blackish W 3.4 mm Body green in [[?]] showing whitish at s-d lines A broad brown stig band edged with white [[?]] plainly below. Feet brownish, spiracles whitish in finer black ring. Spines many barbed tipped [[?]] hairs green, the tips black.

[[underline]] [[overwrite]] 6 [[/overwrite]] Molt Aug 10 [[/underline]] Hd green, labrum, outside of jaws & antennae whitish, jaws & eyes black W 5.1 Body whitish green immaculate, a broad brown stig band, 5 - 13, spotted minutely with yellowish & very distinctly bordered below with white. Spiracles white in a narrow black border. The feet testacious, tipped with brown Abd testaceous outwardly with many paler elevated piliferous spots, & blackish above claspers. A s-v (bet legs) row of subter-ingular brown patches containing greenish piliferous spots. Branching spines green, tipped with black

[[underline]] Began to coon Aug 28 [[/underline]]


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Transcription Notes:
Spilosoma virginica - Virginian Tiger Moth