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attention to the point until now, when I have only the inflated 

 larvae. But a portion of the larvae of kasloa are blackish instead 

 of brown, and these are doubtless the males. 



A considerable number of synonymic and varietal names of 

 rubra and vagans exrst, but, after carefully re-reading the de 

 scriptions, I do not think that any of them refer to kasloa. But 

 ler's ivalsinghami comes the nearest. It was described from the 

 Rogue River, Oregon, from one female specimen. A second 

 specimen from the same place is referred by Sir G. F. Hampson 

 apparently as normal rubra, so that it seems certain that ival 

 singhami is only an unusually red 9 of that species. 



Dr. Dyar presented also the following notes : 



A LEPIDOPTERON PARASITIC UPON FULGORID^E IN 



JAPAN. 



(Epipyrops nawai, n. sp.) x 

 By HARRISON G. DYAR. 



Since commenting before the Society upon the species of Epi- 

 pyrops found in Japan by Mr. Y. Nawa * I have received two 

 specimens of the moth from that gentleman. The specimens, 

 females, agree with the figures published in " The Insect World." 

 The venation is correctly shown, except that the bar between 

 veins 7 and 8 of hind wings should be continuous. The species 

 may appropriately be named Epipyrops naiuai, after its dis 

 coverer. The entire insect is black, the fore wings with many 

 irregular lines of raised bluish metallic scales. Expanse, 22 mm. 



Type. No. 6984, U. S. National Museum. 



Specimens were exhibited. 



HALESIDOTA MACULATA HARRIS, AND ITS VARIETIES. 



By HARRISON G. DYAR. 



The past season's collecting has brought to light some new 

 facts concerning this species. It has been shown that the larva 

 of the form alni, described from the Sierra Nevada of California, 

 has red dorsal tufts on a yellow ground when young, replaced 

 by a uniformly brownish yellow coat when mature, disregarding 

 the black ends, which are the same in all the forms. This form 

 occurs in the Kootenay District of British Columbia. I had 

 supposed that the form would be found throughout the North 

 west, and, indeed, Sir G. F. Hampson has adopted this con 

 clusion by making angulifera Walk., described from Vancouver 



* Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., v, p. 180, 1903, and Insect World, vn, pi. i, 1903. 



