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are difficult to see, as their colours harmonize well with the general 

 appearance of the flower heads. The delicate open web is not 

 conspicuous. 



The number of larval stages has not been definitely determined, 

 but I think there are seven. At first the little larva is entirely green, the 

 head only pale testaceous. Later (by stage IV.) there are faint subdorsal 

 and subventral pale shades with slight dusky bands between. 



Stage V. — Green, subdorsal and subventral lines yellowish, faint, not 

 distinctly broken in the incisures, the red shades between them faint ; 

 width of head 8 mm, 



Stage VI. — Head slightly below joint 2, testaceous green, the 

 clypeus high ; width i mm. Body slender, green, the segments 

 faintly transversely banded with yellow, also yellowish subventrally ; dull 

 crimson dorsal and lateral patches in the yellow bands, fainter at 

 the extremities. Sette long, slender, dusky, iv. + v. on the prominent 

 subventral fold. 



Stage VII. — Head green, mottled with brown over the lobes, ocelli 

 black ; width 1.2 mm. Body green, subventral fold narrowly whitish, 

 dorsal segmental bands of dull crimson reaching the subventral fold, the 

 edges irregular, projecting a little before at the spiracle. Set^e fine, 

 dusky, rather long. The bands are on every segment from the 

 prothoracic to the tenth abdominal. 



Cocoon of silk, small and tough. 



Food plant peppergrass ( lepidium virginicmn). 



L.ARV^ FRO.M HAWAH— A CORRECriON. 



BY HARRISON G. DYAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Meyrick's work on the Macrolepidoptera of the Hawaiian Islands* is a 

 revelation of our previous ignorance of that fauna, since he describes no 

 less than 200 new species out of a total of 292. 



1 have formerly described the larva of a Noctuid from Hawaii as 

 laphygnia Jlavimaculata, Harv., but find, on consulting Mr. Meyrick's 

 paper, that the name was wrongly applied. The five larvae bred by me 

 in Hawaii are as follows : — 

 Lycce?ia boetica, Linn. 



Larvie within the flowers of Crotalaria lo/igirostrata at HoitoIuIu. 



*Kauna Hawaiiensis, Vol, I., part 2, Macrolepidoptera, by E. Meyrick, 1S99. 



