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eral surface of wing sprinkled with dark atoms. Hind wings pale. Ex 

 panse, 37 mm. 



Two males, one female. California (No. 5668, collection J. B. 

 Smith, but apparently from Hy. Edwards' collection), Portland, 

 Oregon, April 23 and May 11, 1892 (Dyar). 



Type. No. 6790, U. S. National Museum. The California 

 specimen bears also the type No. 249, being recorded as one of 

 the types of fulminans, on the strength of a label " Perigonica 

 fulminans Smith, type," in Smith's handwriting. Nevertheless, 

 this is an error, since the only type locality given is Colorado.* 



Homopyralis monodia, n. sp. 



Ground color uniform blackish, slightly violaceous, without the ocher- 

 ous dilutions of the other species of the genus. Ordinary spots black, illy 

 contrasted, a dash of the same color beyond the cell. Lines fine, black, 

 narrowly edged with white scales, appearing broken and powdery, finely 

 dentate, consisting of subbasal, t. a., t. p. and subterminal lines, the t. a. 

 and t. p. rather remote. Hind wings similar, less distinctly marked, a 

 double white bar resting on anal angle as in the other species. Expanse, 

 21 to 23 mm. 



" 20 10 82" (collection, J. B. Smith); "21 10 82" (collec 

 tion, C. V. Riley) ; Rosslyn, Virginia (A. N. Caudell) ; Cocoa- 

 nut Grove, Florida (E. A. Schwarz). 



Type. No. 6791, U. S. National Museum. 



Mr. Caudell has prepared a larva from Rosslyn. Va., found 

 "under a log," July 22, 1899. Moth issued August 14, 1899. 

 Larva. Head rounded, slightly bilobed, flattened before, erect; anten 

 nae rather large, pale, mouth prominent; brown, not shining, with small 

 pale yellowish flecks, a larger pair of these on the face of the lobes above 

 clypeus and another below, indicating a transverse band. Body cylindri 

 cal, moderately slender, feet of joints 7 and 8 absent. Tubercles produced, 

 the dorsal ones, more especially ii, papillose; tubercle iv abdve the center 

 of the spiracle. Dark brown with many longitudinal lines, irregularly 

 geminate and confluent, dotted, so as to form a coarse reticulum ; spiracles 

 in a small deep black area; venter diffusely pale; a row of small dorsal 

 black spots in the intervals of the gemination of the dorsal line. Tuber 

 cle i marked with black before and behind, the other tubercles yellowish 

 white. Shields reduced, lumpy tubercular, the cervical shield blackish. 

 Setae large and coarse, blackish. Thoracic feet pale, shaded with smoky 

 brown. 



Platythyris oculatana Clemens. 



Larva? from Mr. Henry Engel, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. 



Larva. Head rounded, circular, disk shaped, not bilobed ; clypeus ex 

 tremely narrow, only a little broader at base than near vertex, upper third 

 enlarged angularly by a projection of the paraclypeal pieces, the clypeus 



* Ent. Amer., vi, p. 125, 1890. 



