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faint lateral linos white, dark green edg-ed; space between lateral and 

 substigmatal lines all dark green. Substigmatal l)and broad, white; 

 subventer green, shaded with dark; feet paler. Tubercles all black, 

 round, not large, pale ringed minutely. 



Stage IV. — Head pale brown, freckled over the vertex and most of 

 the surface, except the clypeus, with fine strigse; tubercles in black 

 spots; a pair of little dots at apex of paraclypeus; width, 1.8 mm. 

 Body moderate, joint 12 enlarged. Green, strongly shaded with 

 blackish green, edging the broken white dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral 

 lines and forming traces of a dorsal lattice; solid on the sides about the 

 broad, white substigmatal band. Subventer likewise dark, but the 

 feetyjale. Tubercles white, with black hair dots; setas fine; no shields; 

 the lines reach the ends; thoracic feet smoky ringed. 

 . An interpolated stage occurred with width of head 1.7 mm. 

 ; Stage V. — Like the next stage; width of head, 2.2 mm. 



Stage VI. — Head rounded, the apex in joint 2, luteous, heavily cir- 

 cularly mottled w^ith dull brow n, with the usual vertical bands; width, 

 2. 8 mm. Body moderate, joint 12 gently enlarged, feet equal. Ground 

 color creamy brown, heavily mottled in black and nearly obscured. 

 Dorsal and subdorsal lines white, dotted, the subdorsal the heaviest. 

 Oblique black shades in the dorsal space; tubercle ii large, white. 

 Sides like the dorsum, but pale by the absence of the oblique shades, 

 sparsely white dotted. Substigmatal band white dotted, filled by the 

 ground color; subventer like the sides. Thoracic feet red brown, the 

 abdominal ones pale, whitish. Tubercles and setse obscure. 



MAMESTRA SUBJUNCTA Grote and Robinson. 



Nine specimens, June 13, 10, 25, July 2, August 11 (bred), 15 (bred), 

 16 (bred). Through some error Mr. Cockle has this species named 

 canadensis in his collection. 



Egg. — Laid in a large patch, in part in two layers. Flatly spheroidal, 

 almost disk-like; 50 vertical ribs, low, slight, close together, their 

 summits bearing the longitudinal reticulations, the cross-stria' of which 

 form quadrangular cells. Reticulations equally distinct, alike, neat, 

 narrow, sharply raised. Summit broadly elongate-hexagonally reticu- 

 late, the micropyle with a circle of pyriform cells. Pure white, later 

 faintly purplish gray; diameter, 0.7 mm. 



Stage 1. — Head round, bilol)ed, shining translucent pale brownish 

 luteous, faintly blackish freckled, eye black, month l)rown. Body 

 slender, normal, semilooping, joint 12 enlarged, the feet of joint 7 and 

 8 very short. Whitish, shields concolorous, tubercles moderate, black; 

 alimentary canal reddish in anterior half of body. When fed the 

 larvae are green; setae long, black. 



Stage II. — Head rounded, translucent pale luteous, ocelli l)lack; 

 width, 0.5 mm. Bod}" moderate, semilooping, feet of joints 7 and 8 



