NO. 1376. LEPIDOPTERA OF THE KOOTENAI DISTRICT— DYAR. 851 



vertical and transverse, the latter forming cross-striso with ncarlv 

 s<iiiare cells; no vertical lines in the hollows. Vertex reticulate Ix'- 

 tween the ends of the ribs and the micropylar rosette. Palo yellow; 

 diameter, 0.8 mm. 



Stage I, — Head round, l)ilobcd, pale whitish luteous; tubercles 

 blackish; mouth brown. Body moderate, joint Vl slightly enlarged, 

 feet of joints 7 and 8 smaller. Wliitish, cervical shield pale l)r()wn 

 with l^lack tubercles, the other tubercles very large, black, round, i 

 and ii nearly in line, ia and il) of thorax small. Leg plates black; skin 

 spar.seh" dark spicular. 



Stage IL — Head shining luteous with smoky blackish spots on the 

 tubercles; width, 0.6 ram. Body moderate, joint 12 slightly enlarged; 

 some look ver}- slender, others more robust. Shield greenish luteous, 

 nearly concolorous; body light green, the ordinary lines of the ground 

 color broad, about equal to the intervening spaces, which are olivace- 

 ous dark green, and may be described as addorsal, upper and lower 

 lateral. Feet pale; those of joints 7 and 8 short. Tu])ercles minute, 

 blackish, with the seta? inconspicuous. Later the ordinary lines show 

 pale, the dorsal obscure, the subdorsal yellowish white, the lateral 

 obscure, the substigmatal line like the subdorsal. The colors fade 

 very markedly during the stage. 



Stage Til. — Head green, dotted with brown over the upper part; 

 width, 1.1 mm. Body moderate; joint 12 scarcely enlarged, darkly 

 and contrastingly colored. Black above, dorsal and lateral lines obso- 

 lete, dotted; subdorsal and substigmatal alike, broad, greenish white. 

 Subventral region and feet pale greenish, black mottled. Shields 

 concolorous; tubercles black, minute. 



Stage IV. — Head with the apex in joint 2, the luedian sutures 

 depressed, shining luteous, with a few brown spots above; width, 2 

 mm. Body uniform, velvety olivaceous black; broad, equal, subdorsal 

 and sul)stigmatal ban'ds of pale y^ellow, even, reaching the ends, no 

 shield, the substigmatal onh' narrowly black below; sul)ventral region 

 and feet pale greenish, but retracted. Traces of a narrow dorsal line; 

 tubercles and setaj obscure. 



Some of the larvw had heads 1.5, 1.6 nun., etc., while one had a 

 2.4 mm. head, probabh' representing the missing stage v that wa> not 

 observed in the larva speciall}' under observation. The ct)lors were 

 the same. 



Stage FZ— Head slightly bilobed, the vertex in joint 2, light red, 

 finely mottled; width, H nun. Body velvety black; l)road sulnlorsal 

 and substigmatal bands light yellow, narrowly white at the edges. 

 Lower subventral region and feet outwardly light reil; anal flap 

 brown-black. Thoracic feet pale luteous; venfer pale whitish; tubercles 

 obsolete; sette tine, black; spiracles white. 



