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CARADRINA NITENS Dyar. 



Four specimtMis, June 25, July -i, and one from Mr. Cockle's collec- 

 tion, June 7. This is a larg-er and blacker form than mhranda. 



PERIGEA VETERATA Smith. 



No specimens, l)ut one from Mr. Cockle's collection. 



OLIGIA FESTIVOIDES Guenee. 

 One specimen, Jime 13. 



HADENA CURVATA Grote. 



One hundred and sevent3^-two specimens, Jime 25, July 12, 11, 10, 

 25, 27, 30, August 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 17. This has been referred as a 

 synonym of hinotata Walker, by Mr. Grote himself. However, Imio- 

 tata was described from Vancouver Island and my specimens from 

 there (Wellington, Rev. G. W. Taylor; Victoria, Mr. A. W. Hanham) 

 differ in the greater size of the pale patch beyond the reniform, in 

 which tlie transverse posterior line is nearly lost. Walker seems to be 

 referring to such a character in his description when he says ""reni- 

 formi magna ochraceocinerea." Grote says of Walker's type: ""It is 

 rubbed, very dark, with the pale brown reniform contrasting."" Cur- 

 vata was descril)ed from Mendocino County, California, and Grote 

 saj^s in reference to this marking: "ochery brown * * * always 

 stains the approximate transverse posterior line opposite this [reni- 

 form] spot. * * *"" I think this applies more nearly to the form 

 before me, in which the pale patch is small and distinctl}' traversed by 

 the transverse posterior line. 1 have this same form from the Sierra 

 Nevada Mountains of California (Coll. J. B. Smith) and Placer County, 

 California (Koebele). The latter specimens were named adnixa^ liut 

 wrongly so, 1 judge, as that species is described as paler and more 

 variegated than curvata^ and comes from Nevada and other arid regions. 



Eggs from captive females were difficult to obtain and proved 

 sterile; but full grown larvae occurred to us on the wild cnvvdiwi {Rihes 

 sang uineu 111). 



Egg. — Slightly spheroidal, nearly spherical, without basal flattening; 

 smooth dark yellow, the surface flattened in small hexagonal areas 

 without raised reticulations or any trace of ribs, minutely shagreened; 

 diameter, O.s mm. 



Larva. — Head erect, vertex in joint 2; green, faintly white dotted 

 on the lobes, antennte and mouth pale; width 2,6 mm. Body cylin- 

 drical, normal, joint 13 a little attenuated behind, 12 very slightly 

 humped. Green streaked, dotted with yellow, shields concolorous, 

 uncornifled; dorsal line white, distinct from joint 2 anteriorly to 13 

 posteriori}^, widened a little on the posterior slope of joints 12-13; 



