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Eggs, four larval stages and chrysalis observed ; widths of head .15, .3, 

 .6, i.o mm. It is not necessary to describe at length this common 

 European species. 



Sphinx coiivolvuli, Linn. 



Described as Protoparce cingulata, Ent. News, VI., 95, 1895. 



Spodoptera mauritia, Boisd. 



Described as Laphygma fiavimacuhiia, Can. Ent., XXVI., 65, 1894. 

 The irwQ Jlavimacnlata, Harv. { = Spodoptera exigua, Hiibn.), was taken, 

 but not bred. The species were confused. 



Plusia chalcites, Esp. 



Larva a general feeder ; found at Honolulu. Abdominal feet on 

 joints 9, to and 13. Head rounded, clypeus large, green, with a few 

 black dots in some and a line on the side, some distance behind the 

 ocelli. Body green, somewhat transparent, tubercles black. Double 

 dorsal and subdorsal lines, crenulate, pale yellow, the subdorsal ones 

 forming curves around the tubercles, not crossing them ; a single, straight 

 faint substigmatal line ; spiracles black. 



Pupa very pale green with a broad brown band on the back, which is 

 irregularly streaked transversely with darker brown. In a thin cocoon of 

 white silk. 



Found on Ipomoea, Crotalaria, Canna, etc. 



Omiodes Blackbjirni, Butl. 



Meyrick says the larva feeds on banana ; but all mine were found on 

 cocoanut palm ( Cocos nucifera), to which they were very injurious. 

 Found at Honolulu, sewing together the leaves behind, in the folds, with 

 bands of thread at intervals. Several larvae together  they eat at the top 

 and finally spin cocoons at the base of the leaf Head rounded, median 

 suture not deep, clypeus and mouth-parts small ; minutely shagreened, not 

 conspicuously ; set?e rather long ; dull white, sordid, almost testaceous, 

 with six moderately large black spots on each lobe, one over ocelli, one 

 above this in line with another near the top of the clypeus ; one above this 

 latter and another very near the median suture ; two more below the ver- 

 tex, elongate and almost contiguous, directed towards the side of head ; 

 jaws pale brown, black at base and tip ; width 3 mm. Body elongate, 

 slender, transparent and nearly colourless, the green food showing by 

 transparency. Joint 13 divided by a moderately distinct suture. 

 Tubercles i. to iii. large, almost perfectly flat, transparent ; subventral 



