KO.1290. LARVAE OF MOTHS FROM COLORADO— DYAR. 377 



l^i'own: g-eminate lateral olivaceous filled; broad dark lower lateral 

 and suprastigmatal; substigmatal broad, pale yellow, red tilled, folded 

 .sut)VM^ntrally. Two weak lines subventrally and faint traces of \entral 

 dark lines. Feet pale, dusky shaded, equal. 



Stage V. — Head the same, the reticulations heaviest in a line each 

 side of clvpeus and in middle of lobe; width 2 mm. Lines as before, 

 ])ut the lateral is not discolorously filled; all lines red-brown except 

 the broad lower lateral and suprastigmatal which are olivaceous brown. 



Stage VI. — Head rounded, scarceh" bilobed, erect, free; testaceous, 

 shining, reticulate with dark brown, forming a narrow shaded l)and 

 edging the paraclypeal pieces, divergent again at the vertex; a -less 

 distinct dark line up from the eye; clypeus and median suture broadly 

 pale; tubercles brown; width 3.2 mm. Body cylindrical, normal, not 

 tapering, no enlargements; feet normal, equal. Testaceous, finely 

 strigose lined in red-brown. Dorsal line narrow, pale; a faint, similar 

 line between tubercles i and ii; subdorsal band broad, gra3'-brown 

 strigose, pale edged above and below, straight; space below red-brown, 

 strigose. Lateral and stigmatal bands broad, gray-brown strigose, 

 contiguous, separated only by the narrow pale edging, the lateral band 

 also edged above in pale, the stigmatal below, this edge being the 

 upper border of the substigmatal band, which is l)road, straight, red- 

 brown strigose filled, except at its pale edges. Venter, mottled 

 strigose. Shields undeveloped, concolorous. Tubercles small, black; 

 iv at the upper corner of the spiracle. Spiracles black. Thoracic 

 feet pale, l)rown tipped; abdominal ones of joints 7 to 10 with smoky 

 blackish shields, excav^ate above; anal feet reticularly lined. 



The moth approaches closely to Z. junclcola Boisduval and L. ntaltl- 

 t'niea Walker, but I have the larva? of neither to compare. From L. 

 j>Jiragiiiati(l!n)Ia they difier in the color being lighter throughout, the 

 ground testaceous rathei- than pale brown; the markings are identical 

 in both. 



STRETCHIA PLUSIIFORMIS Henry Edwards. 



Eggx. — Ellipsoidal, scarcely more fiat at base than at vertex; neatly 

 30-ribbed, diminishing by a few toward vertex, the ribs gently waved; 

 cross-stria? fine, indistinctly seen on the sloping sides of the ri))s, the 

 vertical reticulation lines on the summits of the ribs not more distinct 

 than the cross-stria?. Micropylar area broadly smooth, finely reticu- 

 late. The sculpture reaches a little beyond the lower third of the 

 Q^g, which is perfectly smooth and shining. Diameter 0. 9 mm. , height 

 0.6 mm. Later there appeared a red ring and spot at the summit. 



Stage L — Head rounded, faintly bilobed, full, broad, pale luteous 

 with })lack ocelli, erect; clypeus narrow, sutures grooved; width about 

 0.4 nun. Body slender, submoniliform, flattened; feet normal, the 

 two anterior abdominal pair somewhat shortened; joint 12 slightl}' 

 enlarged. Whitish colorless, translucent, the alimentary canal appear- 



