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sal, lateral, and stigmatal lines dark brown, with two white lines filling 

 up the space between them: below a distinct white line on subventral 

 fold; a brown subventral l)and over tuVjercle vi. Tubercles and sette 

 small, black. Leg shields dusky. 



Stage IV. — Head as before, width 0.8 mm. Bod}^ green, dorsal line 

 white, green edged; subdorsal and lateral lines light brown; suprastig- 

 matal broadtn-, darker purplish brown; substigmatal white, broad; 

 traces of a l)rown subventral band; no shields; tubercles and setae 

 minute, black. 



Stage V. — Green form,. Head rounded, green, shining, a blackish 

 line parallel to clypeus and sutures, one back from ocelli and a fainter 

 one between over face of lobe, all somewhat reticulate. Width 1.3 

 mm. Body noctuiform, joint 12 slightly enlarged, no shields, feet 

 equal. Green, finely whitish and brown mottled. Geminate dorsal 

 and four side lines below tubercle ii greenish black. Substigmatal 

 band broad, red centered, reaching from joint 2 anteriorly to the anal 

 foot, dark edged above. Feet pale. Tubercles and setae small, black. 



Brown form. — The same, Init the head luteous and the body brownish 

 tinged; lines brown, not blackish green. 



Stage VI. — Head luteous, the lines as before, blackish, reticulate; 

 width 2.1 mm. Bod}- brown, like dead grass, with a broad white sub 

 stigmatal band from joint 2 to the anal foot, broadh" filled in with red, 

 slightly cut by the spiracles except on joints 2 and 12, where it passes 

 below them. Skin marked with red-brown, faintl}^ lined. Geminate 

 dorsal and broken subdorsal black powderings appear as dorsal inter- 

 segmental and subdorsal segmental black specks; a double obscure 

 brown lateral band. Subventer red mottled, dark brown shaded below 

 the substigmatal band, which is sharp edged on both sides; feet pale. 

 Cervical shield pale, trilineate with whitish; anal plate slighth" green- 

 ish, otherwise like the body. Tubercle iv of joint 5 is at the middle 

 of the spiracle, on joint 6 l)elow the lower corner, on joints 7 to 10 

 below the middle, on joint 11 below the spiracle, on joint 12 above the 

 middle. Leg shields transparent, with three black tubercles in a 

 triangle. 



Stage VII. — The same; width of head 2,7 mm. Sul)stigmatal band 

 broadly reddish centered, mottled, brown spotted, leaving a sharp- 

 edged white line above and below. Other lines as before, a lighter, 

 more j^ellowish brown space in the middle of the side. Spiracles 

 white, black edged. 



Piqxi in the ground, light brown. 



Food 2)lant. — Grass (Cenchrus) , 



CAPNODES PUNCTIVENA Smith. 



Egg. — Low domed, the base flat; circular from top view, one-third 

 of a circle from the side. Reticulations distinct, finely linear, hexag- 



