no. i. BOMBYCINE MOTHS OF NORTH AMERICA— PACKARD. 137 



shaft and usually forming a trifid or bifid apex. This type is found in row i on joints 2, 3, and 

 13 and hi row ii on joints 2-13. In the third form there are no quills, the long shaft furnished 

 with irregularly distributed, subradiate branches tipped by long hairs. The branches are 

 black; but many are partly or wholly light brown. This type is found in rows iii and iv. Three 

 shining black, irregularly indented, hairy anal plates, and a large rounded quadrangular cer- 

 vical shield bearing the processes of rows i and ii on joint 2. Body black with faint subdorsal 

 and lateral and broader substigmatal, sinuate lilac lines, or nearly immaculate. Hair from the 

 skin white, not long, but quite abundant, giving a grayish appearance to the larva. Spiracles 

 reddish white with a black line centrally. Claspers of abdominal feet tinged with dull crimson. 



Cocoon. — Very slight, composed of a few threads drawing together loose material or, more 

 commonly, none. The larvae conceal themselves, but do not enter the earth. 



Pupa. — Rounded conical, thickest through the thorax, tapering posteriorly. Cases large 

 and prominent, but very even and closely packed. Anterior end rounded; posterior end also 

 rounded, much smaller. Segmental incisures abrupt, not deep, with little capability of motion. 

 Cremaster reduced to a bunch of short hairs on a slight prominence, colored red-brown, curv- 

 ing outward. Surface finely granular. Color dark mahogany red, the cases a little paler. 

 Length 25 mm.; width through thorax 9 mm.; through abdomen at second movable incisure 

 7 mm. Four incisures are well-ma r ked; but the posterior one is scarcely movable, being 

 coarsely punctured, while the others are smooth. Imago in about 50 days after pupation. 



Food plants. — Cearwihus, Arctostaphylos, etc. Fed in confinement on cultivated cherry. 

 Larva? from Watsonville, Cal. Others seen, but not bred, at Yosemite and Monterey, Cal., 

 and Portland, Oreg. The larvae are gregarious till quite large. — H. G. Dtar, Psyche. May, 

 1S94, pp. 91-92.] 



PSEUDOHAZIS SHASTAENSIS var. DENUDATA (Neumoegen). 



[Pseudohazis eglanterina ab. denudata Neumoegen, Canad. Entom., XXIII (1891), p. 145.] 



[Neumoegen's original description is as follows: 



Head, thorax, primaries and secondaries above and below of rich yellow ; nearly denuded of all markings. Abdomen 

 yellow with black segmentary bands. Primaries, black costa, a beautiful rose tinge at base and along costa to apex, 

 as well as along interior margin. Apical tip black, fading inwardly; a little black dusting, indicating location of discal 

 spots and costal terminus of mesian bands respectively. Submedian cells tinted with light rose. Secondaries with 

 black costa and black dusted discal spots. Very faint indication of mesian band and basal black field. Below, 

 primaries and secondaries uniformly rich yellow, with rose tints at apical part of costa of primaries, and on upper half 

 of secondaries. Abdomen tinted with rose; costa of primaries pronouncedly black, and black spots indicating costal 

 terminus of mesian band and discal spot. Secondaries, costa black and light black indications of mesian band and 

 discal spot. In both wings the nervures are accentuated with black, especially at intersection with exterior margins; 

 black marginal lines and yellow fringes. 



Habitat, California. 



Type, c? . Collector, B. Neumoegen. 



The specimen figured in Strecker'a Rhopal. and Heter., No. 15, Plate XV, figure 9, but not described, is an Ab. 

 denudata, with markings a little more pronounced than in my specimen.] 



PSEUDOHAZIS HERA (Harris). 



Plate XXV, fig. 4; LXII, figs. 8, 9, 13. 



[Saturnia hera Harris, Rep. Ins. Mass. (1841), p. 286, note.] 



[Kirby states that this species was figured by Audubon, Birds Amer., Ill, PI. 359 (1837). 



Hemileuca pica Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M., VI (1855), p. 1318, is given by Kirby and Dyar (as picta) as a synonym 



of hera, but Neumoegen (1891) listed it as a variety of P. eglanterina, and it is so placed in J. B. Smith's list of 



1891.] 



[<?. Head and thorax deep yellow, patagia pale lemon-yellow; abdomen deep yellow 

 dorsally ringed with black and often with a distinct dorsal row of pale yellow spots, which tend 

 to expand laterally, forming a posterior margin to the black banding; beneath whitish-yellow, 

 banded more or less distinctly with black and with a lateral row of black spots; legs deep 

 yellow; upper side of both wings pale lemon-yellow; primaries with a broad black basal dash, 

 not attaining antemedian band- antemedian and postmedian bands black, broad, of equal 



