LEPIDOPTEllA OF THE KOOTENAf DISTRICT— DYAR. 805 



black, ln'istl}', rather even, some of it Avhitc about the diUitioiis and 

 siibvcntrall}^; none secondary. Feet dark. Hair of joints 5 and 12 

 rather denser than elsewhere. In sonic specimens all the central hair 

 on joints to 11 is ocheroiis; another had the hair all l)rown, tipped 

 with black. 



Stage V. — Head black; width 2.1 mm. Body and warts black, the 

 dorsal space rather widel\- bare. Hairs at the ends parti 3' or wholly 

 black, the central ones dull foxy red, A^ariablc. The pale sul)dorsal 

 ])atches are gone. Hair i-athcr soft, of irregulai- length, some of the 

 end ones longer. 



Stage VI. — Head })ilot)ed, rounded, shining black, epistoma and 

 bases of antennjB white; width 8 mm. Body equal, joint 12 scarcely 

 enlarged; yelyet}' black throughout. Warts large, round, shining 

 grayish by whitish rings about the hairs, i*yery large, remote, leaving 

 a rather Avide dor.^^al space. Hairs from tubercles i and ii on joints 4, 

 5, and 12 light foxy red, the rest bluish ]:)lack, stiff, l)ristly, but mixed 

 with softer spinulose ones. Other specimens haye red brown hair the 

 whole length, mixed with some blackish and a faint reddish shade 

 along the subyentral fold intersegmentall}'. All haye wart i partly 

 white, joint 12 subprominent dorsalh'. In some the hair is all black, 

 w^hile one had it white with red hair on joints 5 and 12. 



APATELA PERDITA Grote. 



Three specimens, June 13, 16. The species is a yery distinct one. 

 Mr. Cockle had not taken it till this season, though I hav^e seyeral from 

 Rossland taken in Jiuie, 1899, by Mr. W. K. Johnson. 



J^gg. — Shape of half of a sphere, base broadlj' flat; about 50 wayed 

 ribs diminishing along the middle and again near the yertex, ])roadly 

 triangular in section, ii-regularly wayed; surface else minutel}'^ graiui- 

 lar shagreened. Whitish, later all reticulate in dark red. Diameter, 

 1.3 mm.; height, O.Y imu. 



Stage I. — Head round bilol^ed, mouth large, antenna^ short, ])lack 

 o\'er yertex, shading to brownish below; epistoma and antenna? white. 

 Body cylindrical, normal, whitish, a yinous shade from within except 

 on joints 10 and 11. Warts moderate, blackish, i many haired with 

 large and small hairs, the rest single, no subprimaries. Thorax with 

 ia + ib, iib small, yi single haired on joints 3 and -1. Ceryical shield 

 small, blackish. Later only joints 5, 7-9 and 12 are yinous rivl. the 

 other segments greenish white. 



Stage IL — Head sharply l)ilol)cd, shining black, mouth and antenna' 

 sordid white: width. 0.5 nun. Body robust, with large warts close 

 together; joint 12 a little enlarged, 11 weak. Daik vinous brown, 

 joints 6 and !(► pale, 11 decidedly pale. Hair l)lack, tht> lateral ones 

 paler. All the warts dark; feet black. 



