NO. 1376. LEPIDOPrERA OF THE KOOTENAI DISTRICT— DYAR. 855 



COMIS Grote Pacific coast and mountains adjoining. 



ohnigra Smith. 

 recti llnca Smith. 

 male pet ita Smith. 

 davena Smith. 



This urrano-onient loiive.s the name ;;(??'/A/ Smitli for tho Kootenai 

 form, about which th(>rc .seems some confusion. Terhaps a sei)aratc 

 name is not needed, as the form runs so near typical olivacea. The 

 ivAmGj^'t't'h however, may properly he restricted to tlie female^ types, 

 as the male is a synonym of another species and was characterized 

 from a distorted structure, and this name wall apply to the north- 

 western race of oUracca if a separate name is desired. 



F<j(j. — Three-fourths spherical, the base flat, the apex rouy-hened by 

 the ends of the ribs; ribs about 30, diminishinjj- toward the vertex, 

 neatly waved, with obsolete cro!^s-stria>; vertex confused, the micropyle 

 slightly raised. Pale yellow Avith dull red vertical ring- and spot; 

 diameter, 0.75 mm. 



Stage I. — Head slightly bilobed, shining- black. Body normal, joint 

 12 not enlarged, feet of joints 7 and 8 small; whitish, the large cervical 

 shield, feet, tubercles and plates black. Tubercles rather large, brown- 

 black; cervical shield shining; setas long, bulbous-tipped; skin finely 

 dark granular. 



Stage II. — Head round, dull black; width, 0.5 mm. Body moderate, 

 a little flattened, joint 12 slightly enlarged dorsally. Dark ])rown, 

 dorsal and subdorsal lines pale, broken, darker edged, traces of a 

 lateral line; substigmatal line broad, all pale, sordid. Tubercles round, 

 black, elevated; seta^ hing, glandular tipped, dark at base, curving 

 backward and forward; thoracic feet black. 



Stage III. — Head dark brown, the sutures black, clj^peus pale brown; 

 width, 0.85 mm. Body robust, a little squarely flattened, joint 12 

 slightly angularly prominent, folded. Dark, the skin granular; sul)- 

 dorsal region pale ocherous, indicating a segmentary widening of the 

 dark dorsal l)and, edged l)elow by a straight black band. Sides nearly 

 uniformly dark, the subventral region lighter l)clow the fold. Tul)er- 

 cles small, black; setae coarse, stiff, the tii)s truncate and bhuk; 

 shields concolorous. 



Stage IV. — Head small, rcmndcd, didi dark l)rown, a ])lack \'-mark 

 over the cl3'peus and paler streak on vertex; width, l.M mm. Body 

 robust, flattened, resembling a piece of dirty Avood, stiff, sluggisli. 

 granular, the setic stiff with enlarged tips and alternating in direction. 

 Dorsal space Avood- brown with a black dorsal diamond-shaped mark- 

 ing. Subdorsal line broad, Aviiitish, Avith central dark line and bhick- 

 ish upper border, l)eIow black Avith a lateral Avaved pale line and a 

 broad parallel dilution bidow it. Substigmatal band l)r.)ad. wavi'd. 

 Avhitish. l)rown dotted; spiracles small, black; sul)venter ol»scure 

 broAvn. Feet, pale; tubercles, black, slightly elevated. 



