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length, 30 mm. Found one June i, 1890, on a wild plum tree {Fru/ii/s 

 ilicifolia), in San Diego Co., Cal. A few days later it fastened 

 several leaves together with a {e:\\ silken threads but did not spin a 

 perfect cocoon. It pupated June 7th and the moth issued April 9th 

 of the following year. 



Lycsena exit is Boisd. 



Body flattened below, convex above, green, granulated, and 

 covered with a short, sparse, whitish pubescence ; head very small, 

 wholly retractile, brownish black ; 16 legs, very small ; length, 6 mm. 

 Found two August 4, 1887, near Los Angeles, Cal. One pupated 

 August 8th and the butterfly issued August 14th. 



Lycasna amyntula Boisd. 



Body green, a blackish dorsal and less distinct, subdorsal stripe, a 

 faint black spot in the subdorsal space on segments 4 to 10 ; two 

 faint pinkish stigmatal stripes ; head shining black, wholly retractile ; 

 length, 12 mm. Found two in seed pods of Astragalus crofalaria 

 early in April, 1887, near Riverside, Cal. One of them pupated 

 April 2 2d and the butterfly issued May 6th. 



Pamphila phylasus Drury. 



Body olive green, tinged with pink, and covered with small black 

 granulations ; a subdorsal row of larger, polished, brown piliferous 

 spots ; first segment broadly bordered behind with brownish 

 black, reaching from one spiracle to the other, and divided by whitish 

 dorsal line ; other segments marked with a black dorsal line ; spiracles 

 light gray, ringed with black ; head covered with small rounded 

 elevations, brownish black, the groove on upper part of face bordered 

 with light gray, reaching from apex of head to the clypeus, the latter 

 bordered each side with a light gray line reaching from apex half 

 way to base ; near middle of clypeus are two vertical light gray dashes 

 and outside of each lower corner is a light gray spot ; in certain lights 

 the ground color of the face appears to be light olive gray, spotted 

 and dotted with brown; length, 22 mm. Found two under a stone 

 near Los Angeles, Cal., October 22, 1888. One pupated November 

 2d and the butterfly issued on the 24th of the same month. 



Nisoniades funeral is Scudd.-Burg. 



Body gray, thickly covered with raised whitish dots ; a white sub- 

 dorsal line which sometimes contains a yellow spot near the suture of 



