OF WASHINGTON. 455 



Leucania phragmitidicola Guen. An example at light which 

 was submitted to Prof. J. B. Smith to make the determination 

 certain. 



Ingura burserse n. sp. Purplish gray; a black band before collar ; a 

 faint reddish streak centrally and black scales behind; disk of thorax with 

 scattered black and purplish scales ; abdomen with dorsal whitish V-shaped 

 marks on 5th to yth segments, on the latter becoming an oblique subdor- 

 sal streak; anal segment with black scales above; segments 2 to 7 with a 

 black bar posteriorly, curved forward on the side to the front edge of the 

 segment forming a waved subdorsal line. Fore wings essentially as in 

 delineata, but the subapical tooth of the t. p. line is less produced and 

 more rounded and the apical black dashes relieved by a distinct white 

 powdering. There ore but two of these dashes, the upper, marginal one 

 of delineata being here lost. Hind wing brownish, the veins and outer 

 third shaded with black. Fringe pale, spotted with black. Expanse 27 mm. 



Prof. Smith, on seeing a specimen, thought it " a very fresh, 

 highly marked example of delineata'" ; but it differs from this by 

 the abdominal markings which more nearly resemble those of 

 declinata Grt. and by the white apical dusting. 



Types $ (crippled) and 9 m the National Museum, No. 5174. 



The larva differs markedly from that of delineata (Can. Ent. 

 XXXI, 27), by lacking the transverse dorsal bars and possessing a 

 distinct subdorsal line (Proc. U. S. Nat. M., XXIII, 271). It is 

 not uncommon on the gumbo-limbo (Bursera gummifera). 



Gonodonla unica Netim. Rare ; a few larvae on the custard 

 apple (Anona laurifoha), strikingly marked, somewhat as in 

 the Agaristidae (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXIII, 272). 



Amolita fessa Grt. A specimen caught in 1890. 



Capnodes puncivena Smith. Bred in 1900 from larvae on 

 Eugenia (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 274). 



Anticarsia ferruginea Smith. The larva lives on the sea 

 bean ( Canavalia obtusifolia}. Mrs. Slosson tells me that she 

 has found it on this plant. I found one larva in 1890, but it was 

 resting on another plant, and not knowing .its food, I lost it. 

 Later I bred the moth from this larva at Nassau, B. W. I. 



Larva. Stage V? Head whitish, reticulate with purple and with a few 

 large black dots; width 1.3 mm. Body slender, normal, setae normal for 

 Noctuidae, vi of cervical shield, prespiracular of prothorax, iia and iib rudi 

 mentary; v of thorax and iv of abdomen smaller; setae on leg plates very 

 short. Two anterior pair of abdominal feet reduced, the anterior pair 

 (joint 7) the most so. Dorsal and stigmatal lines orange blotched, edged 

 narrowly with vinous brown; subdorsal and suprastigmatal lines white, 

 likewise lined ; space between dorsal and subdorsal lines whitish, between 

 subdorsal and suprastigmatal lines shaded with purple; subventral space 

 shaded with purple; tubercles v and vi black; feet pale. Dorsal tubercles 

 white with black rings. 



