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stripe, bordered by a subdorsal white one. Then a very narrow laven- 

 der stripe on a line with right and left row of dorsal tuft of spines. 

 Next another white stripe followed by a substigmatal stripe, as broad 

 as the one on dorsum. This is bordered by an irregular, alternate 

 single and double white infrastigmatal stripe. This stripe is double 

 on the anterior part of each segment, and passes obliquely downward 



toward the legs. 



The lower part of shafts greenish white, terminal end black, sur- 

 mounted by a black spine and seta. The longest shafts on segments 

 2 z and 13, are two-thirds black on top and greenish-white at the 

 blse Lower two-thirds of all the spines of the tufts greenish-white, 

 almost pea-green in tint, and tips of the upper and topmost spines 

 black The transverse black spot on dorsum of segments 5-1 1, sur- 

 rounded by a pinkish tint. Spiracles cream-colored. Infraspiracular 

 parts alternately marked by red and black patches, minutely dotted 

 white A broad black band across upper part of abdominal legs, red 

 below and dotted white. Clasping surface red. Thoracic feet red 

 and black. Abdominal parts reddish and finely dotted white, and a 

 yellowish longitudinal stripe passing over all segments. Anal plate 

 black and reddish, dotted white, the clasper reddish. Thoracic and 

 abdominal feet covered by fine white hair. 



Near Prescott I found this beautiful larva at an altitude of 5,400 

 feet and up to a little over 6,000 feet. The food-plants were Qncra^s 

 undrdata; Ceanothusfendleri; a white-flowered, prickly bush bearing 

 red berries, Cercocarpus parvifoUus, or Mountain Mahogany, a small 

 shrub from 2-15 feet high, the bark of which is aromatic like wmter- 

 green • and in southern Arizona, of Huachuca Mts., found a few larva. 

 on Quercus emoryii or Black-jack Oak, which bears edible acorns. One 

 larva was found on Opuntia spec, in Yavapai County. 



