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and sent them to the Bureau of Entomology. They were said to be 

 defoliating the bay trees (Persea sp.) in that locality. 



The larva is slender, active, with a dull red head, the body blackish 

 with a spotted red dorsal stripe. 



Head rounded, strongly bilobed, wider than high ; dull, not shining, 

 pale red, shading to whitish below ; ocelli black ; setae simple, primary, 

 black and rather coarse. Body cylindrical, slender, tapering markedly 

 posteriorly, anal feet extended ; thoracic feet large ; abdominal feet long, 

 slender, tapering, the crochets in a single row on the inner half of the 

 planta ; segments coarsely annulate and with large, black, conical tuber- 

 cles, grayish, infiltrated with blackish purple in patches avoiding the 

 tubercles ; dorsally and laterally stained with red, forming a geminate 

 patchy dorsal band and an irregular stigmatal line ; spiracles minute, cir- 

 cular ; tubercles i to iii large, alternating, elevated ; iv and v small, united, 

 substigmatally posteriorly ; vi posterior ; vii on the leg-base surrounded 

 by an orange stciin ; on the thorax la + ib, iia + iib, iv + v ; cervical 

 shield represented by large border tubercles, itself pale, concolorous with 

 the body ; anal plate with black tubercles. 



ANOTHER LARVA OF XANTHOPASTIS TIMAIS 



(Lepidoptera, Noctuida) 

 By HARRISON G. DYAR 



When writing on the larval forms of X. timais Cramer (Ins. Ins. Men., 

 i, 20, 1913), I overlooked Sepp's figure under the name amaryllidis 

 (Surin. Vlind., 63, pi. 28, 1830). Sepp represents an entirely distinct 

 form from those discussed by me. It is from Dutch Guiana. The head 

 is red, the black markings enlarged into bands touching at vertex, not the 

 small separated spots of the other forms. The anal plate is broadly black 

 in the center, v^rith only a red edge. Body without prominent tubercles, 

 agreeing structurally with the continental form, but with numerous rounded 

 pale yellow spots, no bands. The spots are arranged thus : two streaks 

 on each segment near the incisures, representing a dorsal line ; two 

 rounded dots in subdorsal row, three in lateral row, the spiracle outlined 

 in yellow, preceded and followed by minute dots. 



The markings are much more generalized than in the Floridiem form, 

 or the Mexican form. All the dots are of equal size, rounded, without 



