OF WASHINGTON. 321 



incisures and sharply, angularly widened in the center of each segment, 

 edged above with brown, this color produced obliquely forward a little 

 from the apices of the widened portions. The line reaches the anterior 

 end, but is not distinct on joint 13. Substigmatal line white, strongly 

 narrowed in the incisures, widest behind the spiracles, shaded with green 

 in the centers of the segments; edged narrowly above and below with 

 dark brown, the lower border widened into diffuse patches posteriorly on 

 the segments. The line reaches the anterior end and the anal foot. Feet 

 normal, spiracles small, white, black ringed. Tubercles minute; setae 

 moderate, pale. 



Food plant, Adenostoma fasciculartum. Alameda Co., Cal. A. Koeble, 

 No. 409. 



20. Hadena adnixa Grote. 



Head 2.8 mm., pale brown, mouth concolorous, ocelli black. Body 

 green, finely dotted and streaked with white. Dorsal line white, narrow, 

 straight, distinct, a little widened in the incisures, not broken ; subdorsal 

 line narrower, dotted, white; substigmatal line narrow, equal to twice the 

 height of the spiracle, which it partly encloses, the upper half dark red, 

 the lower half yellow. Spiracles narrowly black rimmed ; feet whitish ; 

 tubercles and setae minute; cervical shield entirely uncornified ; imper 

 ceptible. 



Food plant, wild cherry. Placer Co., Cal. A. Koebele, No. 223. 



21. Oligia grata Hiibner. 



Head 2 mm., shining brown-black, the curved vertical band, clypeus, 

 and a patch above the eyes paler. Thorax (joints 3 and 4) and joint 12 dis 

 tinctly swollen, the larva robust with small head. Dark brown to greenish 

 gray, mottled, finely peppered with pale; dorsal line whitish, narrow, 

 absent on thorax and joint 13, diffusely widened in the centers of the seg 

 ments 6-12 or straight and red tinted. Subdorsal band broad, pale, ob 

 scured in dark specimens. Substigmatal area uniformly lighter, the white 

 dottings more numerous, its upper edge sharp, waved, passing below the 

 spiracles, grading below into the subventral area, not contrasted. A row 

 of faint orange subventral shades. A blackish patch below tubercle i on 

 joint 6. Thoracic feet black marked ; abdominal ones spotted. Spiracles 

 black ; tubercles and setae minute. 



Food plant not stated. Washington, D. C. Dept. Agriculture, No. 

 2485. 



22. Macronoctua onusta Grote. 



Head roughened with creases, clypeus bulging, depressed on either 

 side ; dark mahogany brown, shading to black around the mouth, shining ; 

 width 4.5 mm. Body smooth, translucent sordid white, thin-skinned; 

 dorsally shaded with dull red. Spiracles black; no markings. Cervical 

 shield large, cornified, light brown, obscurely bisected, uniform; pre- 

 spiracular tubercle also well cornified. Anal plate large, rather weakly 

 cornified, but with large, sparse, black punctures. Leg shields very weak, 



