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£>(/(/. — Elliptical, smoothly and ovenly rouiulcd, no perceptible flat- 

 tening nor truncation; surface smooth, shagreened. Shinino- sordid 

 olivaceous, under a lens minutel}- black speckled; size, 0.9 by <>.T by 

 0.65 mm. 



Stage I. — Head rounded, l)ilobed, pale brown, erect, sutures de- 

 pressed. Body moderately elongate, normal, whitish, marked w^ith 

 irregular green rings from the alimentar}^ canal ])efore eating; a very 

 faint, narrow, ])rown subdorsal line. Segments annuhite; cervical 

 shield small, black; tul)ercles })lack, a slight l)lackening around the 

 hair dots only; setw stifl'. minutely flared at the tip. 



Staye If. — Face l)elow and epistoma l^roadly bluish white, edged 

 above with a straight black shade; vertex yellowish, with brown black 

 spots in alternating ol)li(}U(^ rows; width, 0.75 mm. Hody moderately 

 slender, normal, dark gray, many fine irn^gular l)r()wn lines on a 

 greenish gray ground; venter darker than dorsum, which is irregu- 

 larly diluted greenish. Feet concolorous; tu))ercles round, black; 

 seta» pointed, dark. 



The larva? began to hib(M"nat(^ at this point and finally died. 



SABULODES CATENULATA Grote. 



One specimen, June 1^5, and one from Mr. Cockle's collection, August 

 1, lOOi^. 



BREPHOS INFANS Moschler. 



No specimens; one from Mr. Cockle's collection, June 24 (Ains- 

 worth). 



Family NOLID^E. 



CELAMA MINNA Butler. 



One specimen, May 31. It ditters somewhat from minna from 

 California and Vancouver Island, but without a series it is notpossi))le 

 to define the racial characters, if such exist. In the specimen the sub- 

 costal mark on the transverse-anterior line is much reduced, while the 

 transverse-posterior line is an obviously geminate row of dots, tilled 

 by a little darker shade. Larva^ of this, as 1 suppose, occurred on 

 Ceanothus. They are not yet l)red. 



Larva. — Head bilobed, pale yellow, densely checkered with l)rown, 

 leaving the paraclypeal ])ieces yellow; epistoma white. Body flat- 

 tened, no feet on joint 7; warts normal, formed with tubercles i-f-ii 

 and iv+v. Cervical shield small, l)isected. Body checkered yellow 

 and brown, joints 5, 7, and 1 1 broadly l)rown dorsally ; a narrow brown 

 dorsal line, straight; subdorsal, lateral, and sul)ventral waved broad 

 brown l)ands, broken in the incisures, dark and subconfluent on the 

 dark segments, avoiding the warts. Warts ocherous, ringed with 



