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dominal prolegs light grayish-brown. Anal shield and lateral sclerites on anal prolegs dark grayish-brown. Fourth and Fifth Instar (Fig. 2 D). Head yellowish-brown suffused with light brown markings. Frons and adfrontals paler. Ocellar area black. Body creamy white with maroon transverse band on anterior half of meso- and meta­ thorax and abdominal segments 1-9. Bands on mesothorax and 9th abdominal segment noticeably paler. Prothoracic shield whitish with 6 irregular black spots. Thoracic legs pale basally gradually darkening to grayish-brown on tarsus. Anal shield pale yellowish-brown. Spiracles dark brown with black peritreme. Pre­ spiracular sclerite black, pinacula brown. Pupa (Fig. 2 A, B, C). Lightly sclerotized, light orangish-brown. Spiracles in shallow depression, rims of spiracles projecting above cuticular surface. Anterior margins of abdominal segments 5, 6, and 7 strongly pitted. Proboscis length variable, exposing metathoracic legs as figured or extending completely to apex of wings. Cremaster consisting of 2 elongate spines curving slightly ventrad.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The assistance of Mrs. Sandra Shuler in various phases of this study and of Mrs. Phyllis Habeck for the illustrations is gratefully acknowl­ edged. Identification of the wasp was by Dr. Eric Grissell and the spider by Dr. Karl Stone.

LITERATURE CITED FORBES, W. T. M. 1954. of New York and Neighboring States. Part 3. Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta. Mem. 329. 433 p. GANYARD, M. C. & U. E. BRADY. 1972. Interspecific attraction in Lepidoptera in the field. Ann. Entomo!. Soc. Amer. 65: 1279-1282. HARDWICK, D. F. 1958. , life history, and habits of the elliptoid-eyed species of Schinia (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), with notes on the Heliothidinae. Can. Entomo!' Supp!. 6: 116 p. KIMBALL, C. P. 1965. The Lepidoptera of Florida; An annotated checklist. Artho­ pods of Florida and neighboring land areas. 1. Fla. Dept. Agr., Gainesville. 363 p.

A FURTHER FIELD NOTE ON CUPRESSI () A description of the larva of Isoparce cupressi (Bdv.) was given by the author (1973, J. Lepid. Soc. 27: 1-8), accompanied in the same issue by a field note by Van Buskirk (p. 83-84). Both articles omitted mention of a larval character brought to notice in the caterpillars collected by Van Buskirk near McClellanville, South Carolina. In my description of the development of the larva, much at­ tention was given to the brown on the dorsal stripe and on the spiracular areas. In Van Buskirk's specimens, many of them showed no such brown except for the dorsal horn and on the second thoracic spiracle. Instead, the areas mentioned showed the same yellowish white of the lateral lunules. All degrees between the two extremes were seen in the wild larvae. Van Buskirk's wild caterpillars included various instars collected over a very few days, and so represented the offspring of several different females, leading to the conclusion that the natural coloration of the larva is variable in this respect. RICHARD B. DOMINICK, The Charleston Museum, Charleston, South Carolina 29401.