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Resembles typical clodius> except that the two colored spots on the hind 

 wings are centered with pale ocher yellow instead of red. 



Six examples of both sexes, Alturas Lake, near Saw-tooth Mt., 

 Idaho, 7,000-9,000 feet, July 26, 1896 (T. B. Evermann). 



Type. No. 6769, U. S. National Museum. 



Lepisesia vega, n. sp. 



Grayish green, the type being faded the green color is largely lost. 

 Fore wing with a distinct basal dark green band, limited outwardly by a 

 pale line, as distinct as the median band and not present in any other 

 Lepisesia. Median band more upright than in gaurce and/rt/Vn, wider 

 on the costa and enclosing the discal dot as usual; a well marked apical 

 green triangle, fading out on costal edge and a small triangle on inner 

 margin just before the angle. Hind wing red, diluted yellowish beyond 

 middle; marginal band black, not broad. Sizennd general appearance of 

 juanita. Expanse. 55 mm. 



One male, Las Vegas Hot Springs, New Mexico, August 12, 

 1901 (Schwarz and Barber). 



Type. No. 6770, U. S. National Museum. 



Calidota zella, n. sp. 



Head and thorax dark brown, pink scales at posterior edge of vertex and 

 on patagia within. Abdomen pinkish red above, a dorsal series of small 

 brown dots; a lateral brown band incised above; venter grayish white. 

 Legs gray; anterior coxae pink on the sides. Fore wing gray-brown, a 

 little shining; a triangular discal dot, pale yellow; hind wing whitish, 

 translucent. Expanse, 26 mm. 



Two males, Hot Springs, Arizona, June 26 and 27 (Schwarz 

 and Barber). 



Type. No. 6116, U. S. National Museum. 



Schinia marginata Haworth. 



Larvae from Mr. O. Seifert, Long Island, New York. 



Head rounded bilobed, free, erect; clypeus moderate ; whitish on face, 

 the sutures dark, lobes heavily reticulate in brown. Body normal, tuber 

 cle iv well above the spiracle on the posterior segments ; feet equal. Dor- 

 sum nearly all brown from broad, obscurely double, dorsal, subdorsal, 

 lateral and suprastigmatal bands, mottled with pale and separated by nar 

 row pale spaces. A broad white stigmatal band, enclosing the black 

 rimmed spiracles. Subventer faintly brown mottled ; venter and feet pale. 

 Setae pale; tubercles moderate, the dorsal ones somewhat distinctly pro 

 duced, brown ringed. 



Food plant, Ambrosia artemisicefolia.* 



Hypsoropha monilis Fabricius. 



Larvas from Mr. O. Seifert, Island Grove, Florida. 



Head small in proportion, rounded bilobed, erect; pale at the sides, a 



* Seifert, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., x, p. 175, 1902. 



