OF WASHINGTON. 323 



26. Orthodes vecors Guenee. 



Mead 2.3 mm., brown, the vertical band and reticulations paler, leaving 

 dark spottings on the lobes. Body pale, mottled with brown gray, marked 

 as in Caradrina miranda. The dorsal dark shade forms rather distinct 

 diamond-shaped marks, cut by the narrow, pulverulent, pale dorsal line. 

 Lateral area heavily brown mottled, dark, darkest just above the spiracles. 

 Substigmatal line broad, defined, reddish, partly enclosing the spiracles, 

 distinguished from the subventral area. Thoracic feet pale, leg plates 

 dusky. Shields slightly cornified, cut by the dorsal line. Spiracles black, 

 tubercl.es and setae minute. Joint 12 rather distinctly enlarged, with a pale 

 transverse line, connecting the subdorsal lines; joints n and 12 shaded 

 distinctly with brown on the sides. 



Food plant not stated. Dept. of Agriculture, No. 3501. 



27. Taeniocampa rufula Grote. 



Head 2.5 mm., light brown, vertical curved band and reticulations dark 

 brown, distinct throughout. Body pale brown, somewhat reddish dor- 

 sally; cervical shield distinct, brown before, pink behind; anal plate pale 

 except at the sides. Dorsal line pale, pulverulent, broken into a series of 

 dashes centering the diffuse, dark, diamond-shaped, segmentary patches. 

 Subdorsal line undulate, pale, not defined from the pale area bordering 

 the dorsal patches. Sides darkly mottled, all the lines obsolete, the color 

 becoming paler below, but marked with a double row of subventral brown 

 patches (on tubercle v and before vi). Feet brown ; spiracles black ; tuber 

 cles in cornified areas, setae black, rather distinct. On joint 12 the sub- 

 dorsal line widens almost to the spiracle. 



" Food plants various." Alameda Co., Cal. A. Koebele, No. 46. 



28. Taeniocampa pacifica Harvey. 



Head 3.3 mm., green, the vertical band and reticulations faintly brown. 

 Body green, the segments rather distinctly 4-annulate, speckled with 

 white. Dorsal line white, distinct, narrow; subdorsal line narrower, 

 pulverulent, broken, the dottings tending to form a line between these; 

 stigmatal band narrow, white, running just above the spiracles except on 

 joints 2 and 12, slightly tinted with olive above on the thorax. Feet pale ; 

 spiracles white, narrowly black rimmed; tubercles and setae minute. 



Food plant sEsculus calif ornica. Alameda Co., Cal. A Koebele, No. 

 334. Exactly like the eastern T. alia. 



29. Orthosea purpurea Grote. 



Head 3.8 mm., pale, the vertical band and reticulations dark brown, dis 

 tinct throughout. Cervical shield dull black, cut faintly by dorsal, dis 

 tinctly by pale subdorsal lines. Body greenish, streaked and mottled with 

 reddish-brown; dorsal line pale, very narrow and broken down between 

 the segments; oblique shades olivaceous, distinct on joints 5 to 12, the 

 pale subdorsal line broken into a series of dashes that partly border the 

 shades behind. Substigmatal band broad, yellowish, partly enclosing the 



