No.i37(i. LEl'IDOrTERA OF THE KOOTEXAI DISTIIICT—DYAR. 881 



ZANCLOGNATHA OCHREIPENNIS Grote. 

 No specimens; one in Mr. Cockle's collection. 



BLEPTINA CARADRINALIS Guenee. 



Fifty-six specimens, June 1:5, Kt, 10, 20, ?>o, July i% 4, Aucrust 5, 7. 

 Eo-tjs were ol)taine(l from captive females l)iit the larva' liihcrnalcd l>c- 

 fore reachini^" matuiily. rh(>y fed on dead dry l«>avcs. 



E<j<j. — Conoidal with tlattened base, perfectly smooth, scarcely cvcmi 

 shagreened, sliinino- ])ale yellow; diam(>ter..0.r) mm. 



Stage I. — Head rounded, hilobed, l)lack, mouth brown, antennte col- 

 orless; width, 0.25 mm. Cervical shield bisected, with anal plate black. 

 Feet of joints 7 and 8 short, the body normal, joint 12 a little enlai-<:ed. 

 Colorless, translucent, tubercles large, black, angular: si^ta' with swollen 

 tips, clear, the shaft subspinulose, dusky. 



Stage IT. — Head rounded, bilobed, whitish with a vertical l)lackish 

 streak above the black ocelli; width, O.-t nnn. Body short, ro])ust, 

 brown, shaded on the sides with vinous, incisures paler. Cervical 

 shield blackish, broadly bisected; an obscure dark dorsal line; tuber- 

 cles concolorous, seta^ short, thick, capitate, the tips pale and con- 

 trasted. 



Stage IIT. — Head sordid, dull, a ])lack V-mark ov(n-clypeus and dash 

 above eyes; width, 0.75 mm. Bod}- robust, flattened, joint 12 enlar<;-ed. 

 Cervical shield quadrate, blackish with a central dilution. Body sor- 

 did smoky g'rav, marked ])y the white points of the capitate seta'; a 

 darker dorsal line; sides irregnlarly diluted in pale in the incisures and 

 folds. Hair dots black. 



Stage TV. — Head as before; width, 1.1 mm. Body the same, very 

 dark, the dorsal line blackish- with obli(iue subdorsal bars from ante- 

 rior addorsal to posterior lateral, indistinct. Set» with white heads. 



Stage Y. — Head rounded, dull dark brown, a lio-ht band each side of 

 clypeus; width, 1.8 mm. Body robust, flattened, l)lackish l)rown, 

 thickly dotted with lighter, darker laterally. A pale stigmatal line of 

 the color of the dots, broken, diffuse, obscure. Seta^ short, thick, 

 swollen capitate, pale, contrasted on fh(^ dark ground; iv at the center 

 of the spiracle, v and vi nearly in line on th(> subventral fold. 



The last stage, apparently, remains to Ix^ described. 



PALTHIS ANGULALIS Hiibner. 



Two specimens, June 10, 15. An egg was obtained from one of the 

 captured specimens, but the larva which hatched from it was acciden- 

 tally lost. 



^<7^.— Rounded hemispherical, translucent whitish; about 4i> low 

 ribs not sharper than the hollows, covered by an uniform hexagonal 



