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Other larvtB had the head black or partly brown over the vertex; 

 shield diluted green in front, brown centrally. Body all green with- 

 out dorsal shade, the feet of joint 2 black. These were bred from a 

 large patch of eggs laid in a flat mass overlapping like shingles. The 

 eggs were on a woodbine leaf, but the larva3 did not like this plant. 1 

 bred them on wild cherry. Other larvae taken on plum, wild cherry, 

 and oak. In stage I the head was .shining black, mouth paler; bilobed, 

 held obliquely. Body slender, submoniliform: all pale yellow with- 

 out shields or plates. Tubercles ob.solete, setffi obscure. In stage II 

 the head was pale luteous, the body greenish, transparent, no marks. 

 After that the head and cervical shield were black till the last stage, 

 when the black was more or less replaced by luteous brown. Moths 

 issued August '.>. 



LOPHODERUS COLORADANA Fernald. 



Larva. — Head whitish, bilobed, partly under joint 2. Body slender, 

 all pale green, translucent; segments 3-annulate; tubercles whitish, a 

 little elevated, under lens concolorous, colorless, elevated, and mod- 

 erateh^ large; iv-fv. Shield all concolorous, no marks. Feet nor- 

 mal, crochets in a complete ellipse of several rows. 



Spinning a somewhat tube-like web in the seed heads of Pulsatilla 

 hirsuthuiiii high on the foothills back of Golden. 



CENOPIS DIRECTANA Walker. 



Larva. — Head and shield black; width 1.5 mm. Body green, 

 broadly olivaceous shaded dorsallN', leaving the tubercles pale, joint 

 13 green. Thoracic feet black, abdominal ones short, normal. Other 

 larva? had the head mahogany red, the sutures black; cervical shield 

 partly brown-red in front. 



The larvae occurred on wild cherry in the Platte Canyon in Mav. 

 The moth is very variable, but a distinct species, I think. Professor 

 Fernald makes it a synonym of C. ret'wulatana.^ but it ma}^ be separated 

 from Northern specimens that I have under that name. Lord Wal- 

 singham's figure"^ can be closely matched b}^ some of my specimens. 

 Others are much suffused with brown. 



PLATYNOTA LABIOSANA Zeller. 



Larva. — Head flat, the apex under joint 2; shining black, the epis- 

 toma and bases of antennse white; width about 1.2 mm. Body slender, 

 flexible, tapering a little at the ends, .scarceh^ flattened; segments 

 strongly 3-annulate, creased in the incisures. Cervical shield large, 

 black, narrowly bisected by pale; prespiracular and subventral tuber- 

 cles large, black; thoracic feet shining black, abdominal ones short, 



1 Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, X, 1882, p. 20. 



*I11. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus., IV, 1879, pi. lxiv, fig. 4. 



