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clypeusj entirely shining black; width, 1.8 mm. Abdominal feet on joints 

 6-1 1 and 13, with fine ventral eversible glands on joints 6-10, blackish 

 and longer than the feet. Body segments coarsely 4-annulate, smooth, 

 shining, the tubercles represented by minute dark setae. Colour, honey- 

 brown, the dorsal region to the spiracles shaded with plumbeous black. 

 Thoracic feet pale, tinged with blackish. Greatly resembles the larva of 

 C. latitarsus ; but the colour is a watery umber-brown, the black marks 

 leaden. 



Cocoon. — Formed below the ground. Thin, paper-like, shining, black, 

 elliptical, 8x3.5 mm. 



The flies emerged the latter part of July. Found on Coryliis rostrata 

 at Woods' Holl., Mass., and Pittsburgh, N. Y. 



FOOD PLANTS OF SOME CALIFORNIAN LEPIDOPTER.'V. 



BY JOHN B. LEMBERT, JER.SEYDALE, MARIPOSA CO., CALIFORNIA. 



I have observed the egg laying of the following species of Lepidoptera 

 in the vicinity of the Yosemite Valley, California : — 



Danais archij>pus. — ^Oviposits on the tender leaves near the flower 

 bud of GoinpJiocarpiis cordifoliiis. 



Argyniiis epithoi-e. — On the underside of the leaves of Viola ocellata. 



Argynnis egleis (Highland variety). — On pine burrs, pine leaves, 

 sticks and stones, on the shaded side and as far underneath as is possible 

 for the $ to get. 



Argynnis egleis (Lowland variety). — Anywhere on the leaves or stems 

 of Carex fili/olia, Festuca ovina, Horkelia fusca, Potentilla gracilis, 

 Viola canina, etc. 



Afelitcea chalcedon. — In a cluster like a bunch of grapes, from two to 

 fifteen or thirty eggs at a time on Castilleia parviflora. 



Chrysophanus ctipreus. — Under the leaves and on the side of the stalk 

 of Rumex paucijiorus. 



Chrysophanus arota. — On the underside of the leaf of Vaccinium. 



Chrysophanus helloides. — On the seed pods or in the leaf whorls or 

 the stems of Oxytheca spergulina and Gayophytum diffusum. 



Chrysophanus edit ha. — On the underside of the leaf of Horkelia 

 fusca. 



Lyccena dcedalus. — Between the petals and sepals or between the 

 sepals and bracts of the flower of Trifolium monandruvi . 



