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Stage V. Head 1.3 mm., rounded, Ihe apex in joint 2, shining brown- 

 black, sutures and sides diluted in pale luteous. Cervical shield shining 

 brown-black, uncut by any longitudinal line, but with a broad, pale lute 

 ous bar transversely on the posterior ram. Anal plate large, pale cen 

 trally, mottled with dusky, black at the lateral margins. Dorsal area 

 edged by a rather broad, diffuse, pale pinkish band, scalloped outwardly 

 at tubercle ii, inwardly at the incisure, broadest on joint 12 on the slight 

 hump. Color dark gray-brown, not shining, .the skin wrinkled sha- 

 greened. Color uniform in the dorsal space, elsewhere mottled and 

 dotted in paler, yet the pale subdorsals seem the edges of a broad pale 

 dorsal space, not yet defined. Tubercles large, black, polished, but 

 wrinkly, flat; tubercle iv above the center of the spiracle. Setae dark, 

 rather stiff. 



Stage V[. Head 2.5 mm., dark, shining, faintly obscurely dark reticu 

 late on a luteous ground, areas about tubercles i and ii pale; setae pale; 

 stiff. Cervical shield black, the posterior third pinkish luteous, slightly 

 mottled, contrasted; a faint bisecting line. Body slightlyflattened, joint 

 12 scarcely enlarged. Dorsal space broadly pale, pinkish white, sordid 

 mottled and streaked in purplish 'brown, a darker central shade. The 

 space is widened on the segments where it becomes faintly ocherous. 

 Sides purple brown, mottled and dotted in whjtish. Subventer and venter 

 sordid olivaceous. Anal plate broadly pinkish, black on the lateral edges. 

 Tubercles large, black, polished, iv above the middle of the spiracle. 

 Spiracles black; feet normal, short; foot plates black, small, anteriorly 

 situated. 



Larvae from Center Harbor, New Hampshire. They fed on 

 various low weeds, and hid persistently under rubbish. 



Stretchia mys, n. sp. 



Thorax with a sharp anterior carinate crest, with fore wings rich* red 

 dish purple, uniform, very slightly hoary sprinkled, and with traces of 

 small, pale dots on the veins in the position of the transverse posterior 

 line. No markings whatever. Outer margin scarcely crenulate, bent at 

 vein 3. Hind wings whitish, strongly tinted with dull rosy, darkest 

 along the outer margin and fringe. Abdomen dull reddish. Below the 

 body is bright reddish, the wings pale, tinged with rosy about the margins. 

 Expanse, 35 mm. 



One male, Sonoma Co., California (A. Koebele, No. 587). 

 Type. No. 6773, U. S. National Museum. 



Perigonica tertia, n. sp. 



Male antennae strongly pectinated. Thorax and fore wings light ocher 

 ous clay color, marked like the most pronounced examples of .P. angnlata 

 Smith. Subbasal, t. a. and t. p. lines double, blackish, crenulate, more or 

 less broken and dotted ; orbicular and reniform blackish filled, pale edged 

 and faintly again with blackish ; subterminal line light, edged within with 

 a dark shade, twice bent, not very distinct; a terminal row of dots. Gen- 



