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the feet rather slender, but equal. Thoracic feet small, brown. Tubercle 

 iiia small, but rather distinct, situated before the upper corner of the 

 spiracle. Tubercles and setae minute, dark. 



Bores in the roots of German lily. Charles City, Iowa. Dept. of 

 Agriculture, No. 8145. 



23. Dargida procincta Grote. 



Head 3.5 mm., large, pale, the curved band, clypeus and reticulations 

 light brown, dividing the lobes into a series of whitish spots, each com 

 posed of little confluent dots. Body olive brown, longitudinally strigose, 

 dotted with pale. Dorsal line broad, pinkish, filled with brown strigae, 

 producing the effect of a rich pulverulent brown ; subdorsal line broader 

 (i mm.), pale yellow, slightly olive dotted, edged above with dark velvety 

 shades at anterior borders of segments, and also, more faintly, below. 

 Lateral band broad, like the subdorsal, but a little narrower and fainter, 

 not edged ; substigmatal band as broad as the subdorsal, including the 

 lower edges of the spiracles, whitish, but filled in with dull red, except 

 its sharp upper and lower edges. Subventral region and feet paler. 

 Spiracles white with a dark velvety shade above, narrowly black ringed. 

 Cervical shield and anal plate slightly yellowish, marked by the subdorsal 

 line, the shield also by a pale dorsal streak. Tubercles and setae minute. 



Food plant not stated. Placer Co., Cal. A. Koebele, No. 142. 



24. Caradrina miranda Grote. 



Head 1.8 mm., light brown, the curved vertical band distinct throughout 

 and with the reticulations dark brown, but the latter are faint above. 

 Body pale brown, mottled with gray, faintly marked, but almost exactly 

 as in Mamestra meditata. Dorsal line obsolete except anteriorly, the 

 gray shade bordering it constricted at the incisures; subdorsal line obso 

 lete, the space between it and the stigmatal line shaded with gray; sub 

 stigmatal band pale, indistinct, sharp edged above, straight and partly 

 enclosing the spiracles, illy defined below except slightly by faint subven- 

 tral orange patches. Spiracles black, tubercles and setas minute; shield 

 and anal plate scarcely perceptible. 



Food plant not stated. Alameda Co., Cal. A. Koebele, No. 358. 



25. Caradrina extimia Walker. 



Head 2 mm., dark reddish-brown, faintly dotted above with darker 

 brown. Body somewhat translucent, pale, mottled with gray with a red 

 dish tint. Dorsal region broadly pale, containing very faintly the gray 

 diamond-shaped marks ; dorsal line obsolete except anteriorly, pate. Space 

 between subdorsal line and spiracles dark. Other lines obsolete, the sub- 

 ventral region gradually paler below. Spiracles black; tubercles minute, 

 but cornified, in pale areas; setae rather large. Feet pale ; cervical shield 

 and anal plate slightly cornified. 



"Found under boards." Santa Clara Co., Cal. A. Koebele, No. 169. 



