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smooth (87 diameters), the cell areas just indicated b}" obscure flatten- 

 ings. Pale yellow, later more or less spotted with red which brings 

 out the obsolete reticulations better; size 0.6 by 0.4 by 0.3 mm. 



Stage I. — Head bilobed, clypeus high, shining honey ^^ellow, eye 

 black, mouth brown. Body slender, rather short but looping rapidly, 

 all honey yellow, unmarked. No shields; tubercles invisible; setse 

 short, capitate, dusky. 



ORTHOFIDONIA EXORNATA Walker. 



Five specimens. May (Mr. Cockle), Ma}^ 29, June 5, 



DEILINIA BEHRENSARIA Hulst. 



Eleven specimens, May 31, June 2, 13, 16, 19, Jul}^ 14, 19, August 4. 

 Apparently double brooded. The specimens varj^ in color from gray 

 (var. cervifiicolor) to ocherous gray, but none are as light as Cali- 

 fornian specimens. I have described the larva in Life Histories of 

 North American Geometridre, L. '^ 



DEILINIA QUADRARIA Grote. 



Three specimens, June 6, 15, and one from Mr. Cockle's collection 

 June 22, 1901. I have described the larva from Colorado in Life 

 Histories of North American Geometridaj, XXXIV. ^ Eggs were 

 obtained from a captive female and the larvae reared on Ceanothus to 

 the fourth stage, when the}' were lost. 



DEILINIA PULVERARIA Hulst. 



Forty-six specimens. May (Mr. Cockle), May 29, 30, 31, June 1, 2, 

 3, 4, 5, 9, 16. The species is rather constant. I have described the 

 larva in Life Histories of North American Geometridse, XLIX. ^ 



DEILINIA FUMOSA Hulst. 



Two specimens, one Sandon (G. C. Robbins), the other bred from a 

 larva beaten from Ceanothus by Mr. Cockle, emerged August 23. 



Larva. — Head rounded bilobed, clypeus high; green, dotted with 

 white, tubercles and seta^ dark; width, 2.4 mm. Body normal, moder- 

 ate, smooth; green, finely white streaked and dotted. Addorsal line 

 white, faint, subdorsal more distinct, both faint on the concolorous 

 cervical shield, absent on the anal plate; lateral line about like the 

 subdorsal; substigmatal yellow, narrow, diffusing a yellow shade on 

 the green about it, especially at the stigmata which are orange, brown 

 rimmed. Tubercles I'ound, small, neatly black; feet green; triangular 

 . plate of anal feet slightly black dotted. 



« Psyche, X, 190-1, p. 197. & Idem, IX, 1902, p. 383. o Idem, X, 1904, p. 196. 



