No.l37r,. LEriDOlTEllA OF TIIE KOOTENAI DISTIUCT—DYAR. 859 



MAMESTRA PENSILIS Grote. 



One livindrod and forty-thrce specimens, July 25, 27, 7\.u«,nist ?>^ 4, 

 5, 6, 7, i;-i, 15, 17. The species is very near vlcina (Jrotc. 1 do not 

 'AOYQxt with the manner in which Prof. J. B. Smith has separated these 

 forms in the U. S. National Museum collection. I Avould refer the 

 New York, Texas, Colorado, and Arizona specimens to vici/ia, the 

 Vancouver Island and California ones to 2Je?isili's. 



Eg-gs were obtained, but not very early, and the larva? refused to 

 proceed be3^ond stage ii before hibernating. They were fed on dead 

 leaves. 



E(/g. — Laid in a mass under a piece of paper in the jar, which was 

 o-hied to the glass ))y them. Two-thirds spherical, conoidally narrowed 

 above, base flattened, somewhat irregular. Ribs about 48, not dimin- 

 ishing till the edge of the large vertex, where is a mass of irregular 

 crumpled ridges. Sides of ribs waved, crossed by faint striie, which 

 meet at an angle in the depressions, these being without flat bottom. 

 Micropylar rosette raised. Pale yellow, with a red ring and spot; 

 diameter, 0.6 mm. 



Stage I. — Head rounded, wide, with the cervical shield, plates, and 

 tubercles brown black. Body white, densely dark granular; tubercles 

 large, angular; setre with clear bulbous tips, rather long. Body robust, 

 joint 12 enlarged, the feet of joints 7 and 8 smaller. 



Stage //.—Head rounded, shining black, mouth ])r()wn; width 0.4 

 mm. Cervical shield, anal plate, leg plates, and round tubercles black. 

 Body robust, equal, sordid, dark brown, with very faint whitish dorsal, 

 subdorsal, and broad substigmatal lines with illy defined edges. Seti^ 

 coarse, })lack, with enlarged tips, alternating forward and backward; 

 feet of joints 7 and 8 a little smaller. 



The concluding stages remain to be described. 



ADMETOVIS OXYMORUS Grote. 



No specimens; one from Mr. Cockle's collection, June 28, l!>02 

 (Sandon). Jt is a male and has brown hind wings. 



BARATHRA CURIALIS Smith. 



One specimen, June 10. It has less yellow shading than a bred 

 specimen from Randolph, Vermont, before me, but is the same species, 

 I judge. Eggs were obtained from this single specimen, but proved 



sterile. 



£:gg,—Jjnid in a small patch. Flattened spheroidal, ])as(^ moderately 

 flattened; ribs about 48, rather narrow, moderate, diminishing rapidly 

 by alternation near vertex, ending on the summit, the vertex in a 

 broad, circular, radiate area; micropyle with a circle of py riform cells; 

 cross-striie very obscure, forming nearly ((uadrangular cells. A\ axy 

 yellow; diameter, 0.0 mm.; height, 0.5 mm. 



