NO. 1290. LARVM OF MOTHS FROM COLORADO— DYAR: 383 



slender, feet on joints 9, 10, and 13, those of 9 and 10 approximate. 

 Tubercles small, black; set® pointed. Cervical shield concolorous 

 with head; thoracic feet brownish, abdominal ones with dusky plates. 

 After eating, the marks became faint and the larva looked sordid g-reen. 



Stage II. — Head rounded, oblique, the lobes bulging; whitish, with 

 three brown bands on each lobe, the upper obliquely clouded, the 

 lower, behind the black ocellus, narrow; with 0.6 mm. Body slender, 

 feet on joints 9 and 10 (approximate) and 13, with minute stubs of feet 

 on joints 7 and 8. Dorsal space greenish white, slightly streaked with 

 traces of dorsal and addorsal lines. Subdorsal, lateral and broad 

 suprastigmatal brown lines on a whitish ground; substigmatal l)and 

 whitish; two subv^entral brown bands. Seta3 stiff, dark, rather long 

 f rou] very small black tubercles. Thoracic feet black; abdominal ones 

 brown lined. Joint 12 very little humped. 



SiUige III. — Head white with three geminate lines on each lobe, 

 parallel to those of the body, the upper one abbreviated; width 1 mm. 

 Bod}^ slender as before, whitish, subdorsal line double, fine, purplish 

 black, the upper part narrow, waved; three fine lines above the white 

 substigmatal band; three partly confluent and irregular reddish sub- 

 ventral lines and a dotted ventral one. Sette distinct, dark, but 

 tubercles obsolescent. 



Stage IV (Interpolated). — As in the next stage; width of head 

 1.3 mm. 



Stage IV (Normal). — Head white with three geminate, purplish 

 black crinkly bands, reaching from the back of the lobe to the clypeus, 

 pointed at the lower end; an erect mark over epistoma to apex of 

 clypeus; sutures narrowly dark. Shape round, full above, slightly 

 bilobed, larger than joint 2 but the apex a little covered by it, rather 

 pointed at the mouth; setie dark; width 1.5 mm. Body uniform, 

 slender, the feet of joints T and 8 very small rudiments, those of 9 and 

 10 distinct, approximate, of 13 stretched posteriorly. Graj'-white, 

 traces of a dark dorsal line; subdorsal line double, the upper part 

 waved, the lower crossing tubercles i and ii, linear, purple black; a 

 faint single lateral line; suprastigmatal line double like the subdorsal 

 one but straight, the upper part crossing tubercle iii, the lower iv; 

 stigmatal band slightly more white than the ground; three subventral 

 lines a little crinkled and irregular, especially the central one; venter 

 gray- white, a half shade lighter than the dorsum. Feet pale, brown 

 marked. Segments slightl}^ wrinkly annulate epecially posteriorly. 

 Tubercles small, black; seta? black, distinct posteriorly. 



Stage V. — Head rounded, scarcely bilobed, oblique, large at vertex, 

 higher and wider than joint 2 but the apex retracted; whitish, three 

 geminate gray brown dotted filled bands on each lobe and an erect 

 mark in the ch'peus; Avidth 2.3 mm. Bod}^ gray, dotted l)anded. 

 Dorsum broAvnish dotted filled, spaced by pale from the })r()ad l)lack 



