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eastern form, Smitirs mule type Ix-forc me lu'injr mueh darker; but 

 others are not so dark, some Ix'ino- pructieally as liu-lit as normal 

 f'//ijjlf/f((aud nearly indistini^uisJiahU' thcrerrom. The larva, too, is close 

 to the eastern one. It is this larva to which i referred in the descrip- 

 tion of stiigcx" oi /if f('/co,j, a { — impleta) as " Californian examples." 



74/</-— i^hape of half of a sphere, not hrosidly flattened; dom(>(l, laid 

 singly or in groups, partly overlapping. About 80 vertical ribs, 

 diminishing toward the vertex, moderate, sharp, rather high and 

 narrow, waved, joined by narrow low cross-stria'. The ribs run 

 practically to vertex, becoming confused. Yellowish white, later with 

 little red dots rather thickly scattered. Diameter, 1.2 mm,; height, 

 0.6 mm. 



Stage I. — Head cordate, black above, shading to whitish about the 

 mouth, jaws l)rown. Body whitish, dorsum broadly dark \inous, 

 except joint 11 and the anal feet. Hair long, black, curved; wart i 

 large, man}' haired, the I'cst single with no subprimarics; iv and v with 

 smaller hairs. On thorax tubercles ia+ib; joint 11 weak, its wart i 

 many haired, l)ut smiill. Later the larva is white, cer-ical shield 

 transverse, black; joints 4 posteriorly — 5, 8, 9, 12 with large dorsal 

 spots. Warts all black, except those on joint 11. The dark patch on 

 joint 12 is infiltrated by pale. 



Stage 11. — Head cordate, pale, the apices of the lobes black; width, 

 0.5 mm. Joints 3, 6-Y, 10 posteriorly — 11 greenish, the other segments 

 and all the warts dark, vinous blackish. Hairs black dorsally. pale 

 subventrally, straight and stifi*. Feet pale. The sides below wart iii 

 are entirely pale. 



Stage TIT. — Head rounded, ([uadrate, shining black, paraclypeus 

 whitish, labrum and antemue narrowl}' pale; width, o.!t nun. Body 

 purplish black over dorsum, sides of joint 11 pale and showing a white, 

 subdorsal band; su])ventral region and feet pale; thorac-ic feet blackish. 

 Hairs black dorsall}', whitish sul)ventrally, rather dense, spinulose, 

 joint 5 with heavy dorsal tuftings, and (i with short pale hairs; hairs 

 of tubercle i of joint 12 penciled, short, plumose. Hair of joint 11 

 short and mostly pale. 



Stage IV. — Head bilobed. shining Idack; width, 1.5 mm. Body 

 black dorsally, dotted on the sides, whitish subventrally and on anal 

 feet; a pale yellow subdorsal baron joint II covei-ing wart ii. Warts 

 round, black, distinct; no secondary hair. Black and white fan- 

 shaped tuft on joint 5, a smaller white one on joint ti, a pair of erect 

 su})d()rsal pencils on joint 12 black. White hairs over the head and 

 subventrally. Thoracic feet black, abdominal ones pale. 



Stage T"~Head bilobed, shining black, a white mark in para- 

 clypeus, epistoma and labrum whitish; width, 2.5 nun. Body black 



aProc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXI, 1898, p. 153. 



