NO.1290. LARV.E OF MOTHS FROM COLORADO— DY A R. 379 



shaded; sti^matal band brown, of the ground color, filled with light 

 brown and reddish mottlings, not contrasted; subventral space but a 

 shade darker, mottled. Tubercles in small brown spots; feet pale. 

 Tubercle iv above the center of the spiracle on joints 9 and 10. Poste- 

 rior parts of subdorsal space segmentaril}^ paler, forming a transverse 

 band of pale on the hump on joint 12. Spiracles black ringed. 



Eggs from a moth captured in Denver. The food ])lant is th(^ wild 

 currant. Eggs May 12, mature larva; June 24. 



The larva of this somewhat striking moth proves to be a very plainly 

 colored, da}' hiding Noctuid. 



XYLINA TORRIDA Smith. 



Larva. — Head rounded, not })ilobed, erect, green, epistoma and bases 

 of antenna; white; width 3 mm. Bod}^ normal, joint 12 not enlarged, 

 joint lo tapering; robust, cj^lindrical. Clear green; a straight, white 

 dorsal line on joints 3 to 13, granular shagreened; tubercles small, 

 white; skin minutely white peppered. Subdorsal line narrow, broken, 

 granular, white; traces of a similar lateral line; substigmatal line nar- 

 row, granular, pale j'ellow, from joint 2 to the anal plate. Feet green; 

 spiracles white, finely black rimmed. Tubercle iv at the lower corner 

 of the spiracle. Cervical shield green ; anal feet shortly extended 1 )ack- 

 ward, white lined. Later there is a white dorsal shade, the stigmatal 

 line is yellow, the subdorsal one obscure. 



Pupation in the ground. Larva found on wild cherry in the Platte 

 Canyon May 21; imago emerged September 25. 



XYLOMIGES SIMPLEX Walker. 



StcK/c ///.—Head rounded, black; width 0.9 mm. Cervical shield 

 quadrate, black; body rather thick, cylindrical, noctuiform, joint 12 

 scarcely enlarged, very sordid whitish, almost gray, with narrow white 

 dorsal and subdorsal lines, the latter edging the cervical shield; fainter 

 lines along tubercles iv and v. Tubercles round, slightly elevated, 

 ])lack, distinct, normal. Leg plates and anal plate black; feet black; 

 setae duskj^, short; tubercles faintly pale ringed. 



Stage IV. — Head shining black, epistoma and bases of antennie 

 sordid white; width 1.0 mm. Cervical shield black, trisected in white 

 narrowly. Body purplish black, pale mottled; dorsal and subdorsal 

 lines white, discreet, broken; stigmatal band yellowish, luteous cen- 

 tered, including the spiracle and reaching to tubercle v, sharp edged. 

 Tubercles black, rounded, elevated, polished. Seta; rather long, pale. 

 Venter sordid greenish, purplish shadowed. 



In stages V and VI the head became red l)rowu, but as I have already 

 described these stages^ 1 will not transcribe my notes. The larvse 

 occurred hiding in spun leaves on wild plum in the Platte Canyon and 



iCan. Eut., XXVI, 1894, p. 21. 



