OF WASHINGTON. 317 



4. Eueretagrotis sigmoides Guenee. 



Head 2.5 mm., rather dark brown, obscuring the markings, which are 

 as in R. alternata. Body pale brown, somewhat pinkish or cream- 

 color; dorsal line narrow, pale, brown marked, and shortly broken in the 

 incisures ; subdorsal shades and lines scarcely perceptible ; substigmatal 

 line straight above, narrowly pale, edged with a dark line that runs through 

 the centers of the spiracles (except on joint 12), broad, illy defined below, 

 and shading off into the pale subventral area. 



Food plant not stated. Dept. Agriculture, No. 3185. Close to R. al 

 ternata, but the stigmatal line is more rigid and the subdorsal shades 

 obscure. 



5. Noctua bicarnea Guenee. 



Head 3.5 mm., pale, distinctly reticulated, the vertical curved band very 

 heavy and nearly black, distinct below, but without spot in clypeus; line 

 from eye distinct on lower half of face. Body a little flattened, light 

 brown, streaked and mottled with darker brown ; dorsal and subdorsal 

 lines pale, narrow, about alike, the former broadly bordered with a dark 

 brown area, which is retracted at the incisures, the latter narrowly brown 

 bordered, thus leaving a pale space between that widens at the incisures; 

 a broad, regular, dark brown, mottled suprastigmatal band, just enclosing 

 the spiracles, edged below by the whitish, narrow, slightly waved, upper 

 line of the substigmatal band. This is pale, illy defined, reddish, sharply 

 edged, but nearly indistinguishable from the light brownish subventral 

 area. Feet pale; tubercles minute. Spiracles brown, black rimmed. 



Food plant not stated. Washington, D. C., Dept. Agriculture. 



6. Feltia vancouverensis Grote. 



Head 3.6 mm. , pale, reticulate, the curved vertical dark band faint below ; 

 ocellar line not strongly marked. Much as in R. alternata. Brown and 

 cream-color, mottled on a greenish ground that appears subventrally ; 

 cervical shield gray, not well cornified Lines all obsolete except the 

 narrow, pale, dorsal one, which is moderately distinct on the anterior 

 portion of the body only. The brown mottlings are heavier dorsal ly (con 

 tracted at the incisures), and above the normal position of the subdorsal 

 line, enclosing a pale space that widens in the incisures. Tubercles in 

 distinct, brown, corneous areas ; setae minute; spiracles black. 



Food plant, wild cherry. Placer Co., Cal. A. Koebele, No. 236. 



7. Carneades wilsonii Grote. 



Head 3.6 mm., pale brown, reticulations very obsure, paler than the 

 ground color which is thus divided into polygonal areas; vertical band 

 obsolete above and below, existing as a dash beside the clypeus. Body 

 green, lined with white. Dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral lines rather nar 

 row, straight, but transversely cut into blotches; substigmatal line broad, 

 obscurely double, being narrowly centered with green. Feet pale; spira 

 cles black. Tubercles in distinct cornified areas ; setae minute. 



