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cervical shield is degenerate, bisected, each half with two warts 

 on the anterior edge and a tuft of hairs at the upper inner corner ; 

 prestigmatal wart nearly fused to the shield ; subventral wart 

 large. On meso- and metathorax, three large warts on each 

 side (ia+ib4-iia, iv-j-v and vi), the rudimentary hairs (iib and iii) 

 obsolete. On the metathorax the upper wart shows a small boss 

 on its upper side, indicating its compound nature. On the ab 

 domen wart i large, but smaller than ii ; iv smaller than iii but 

 pushed up above the spiracle almost in line with and approxi 

 mate to iii ; v and vi large, crowded together obliquely. All the 

 warts are so large as to be somewhat crowded. Warts polished, 

 except ii of joints 5 to 12, which is covered with a dense tuft of 

 short barbuled hairs in addition to the rather sparse long black 

 hairs that all the warts bear. Ground color dull ocherous, 

 a broken dorsal black stripe and irregular subdorsal and subven- 

 tral spottings, the warts of the pale segments ocherous, the short 

 hairs of wart ii brown. Joints 5, 6, 9, ii, and 13 are heavily 

 transversely banded, somewhat irregularly, with black, their 

 warts polished blue-black, the short hairs of wart ii black. Warts 

 of joint 2, the upper and lower warts of joint 3, and the anal flap 

 also black. Long hairs but sparsely barbuled, structure of the 

 Arctian type 



Daritis sacrifica Hu'bn. I possess a badly shrunken cast skin 

 of this species sent me by Mr. G. Ruscheweyh (Buenos Aires, 

 Argentina). The head closely resembles that described above, 

 except that the episotma is dark ; it is polished black ; width 

 about 4 mm. The warts are large, part polished blue-black, part 

 pale yellow. The single ( ?) large subdorsal wart of meso- and 

 metathorax seems to have been black and given rise to a single 

 very 'long, smooth, white hair, besides the usual rather sparse, 

 black, barbuled ones. Thoracic feet and anal flap black. Hairs 

 black and white mixed. I cannot make out further details 

 with certainty. 



Genus Compos ia Hiibn. 



Composia fidclissima H. S. The details of this species have 

 been given elsewhere. (See Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., iv, 68-72.) 

 The upper thbracic warts are joined on the mesothorax, but still 

 separate on the metathorax. 



Genus Gnophccla Walk. 



Gnopkcela latipennis Boisd. Some well-preserved larvae of 

 this species are in the collection of the National Museum (pre 

 pared by Koebele, Siskiyou Co., California). The larva is a 

 handsome animal ; its general appearance has been noted by Lord 

 Walsingham (Stretch, Papilio ii, 82), but it is finer than the larva 

 of Callimorpha dominula, with which he compares it. Head 



