NO. 1376. LEPIDOPTERA OF THE KOOTENAI DISTRICT— DYAR. 900 



(lepi'cssioii; smooth. l^ilc yellowish <;i"(MMiish, sc:ir(;cly iiny color, 

 shilling, tui'iiiiio- hurk brown; size, l.;{ by 1 by 0.7 luiii. Laid siii«r|v, 

 iidhcnMit, all covcrod with <^r!iy scales from the moth, so that tln'v 

 appear like woolly balls. 



Stage I. — Head large, round, slitrhtly bilol)ed. ])ale red brown. 

 Body moderate, ratlu'r short, slate j^'ray, cervical shield and spots at 

 tubercles i and ii pale luteous, subventral fold, feet and anal plates 

 pale. 



PHILEDIA PUNCTOMACULARIA Hulst. 



No specimens, but ^Ir. Cockle has taken it. The species flies late 

 in sunniier, and none had emerged by August 18, when 1 left Kaslo. I 

 took it later on Vancouver Island. In Bulletin No. 52, U. S. National 

 Museum (p. 320), I note the spruce defoliating geometi-id. i-e))orted 

 by Dr. A. D. Hopkins, as being this species. This is probably an error, 

 since Mr. Theodore Bryant informs me that he has bred jjuncto/nacu- 

 lar'm from larvie on the common ]>rake {Pterlx). 



NEPYTIA UMBROSARIA Packard. 



Two specimens, one from Mr. Cockle, one August 20 (Nelson) and 

 one from Mr. Cockle's collection, August 12, 1901. Very rare, i)er- 

 haps a little out of its range. I have it from Portland and Mount 

 Angel, Oregon, and kSanta Cruz Mountains, California. 



ALCIS SULPHURARIA Packard. 



Thirty-one specimens, June 23, 20, 30, July 3, 4, 19, 23, 24, 2.5, 27, 

 29, 30, 31, August 11, 12. Very variable, the markings tending to re- 

 duction or nearly complete obsolescence (var. xmu-oUmtrUt Hulst). 

 Eggs were obtained from captive females, l)ut they hil)ernated without 

 hatching. 



^]/r/.— Elliptical, well flattened, but without flat areas, rounded; ends 

 much alike, without marked truncation or depression. Kibbed, about 

 10 on the flat side in the center, diminishing to both ends irregularly; 

 waved and cut nearly through at each obsolete cell, the resulting ele- 

 vations crested each l)y two por(>s not in line with the ril); crests of 

 pores white. Obsolete cross strije show as low, rounded bars, princi- 

 pally on the flanks of the ribs. Surface minutely granular shagreened. 

 :Micropylar end without ribs centrally. Orange ochraceous; latei' all 

 red; size, 1 by 0.(i by 0.4 mm. 



PARAPHIA SUBATOMARIA Wood. 

 No specimens; one from Mr. Cockle's colkntion, July 17, I'.'ol. 



