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Larva. — Mr. Bellrage, who lias reared the moth from the caterpillar 

 (fi<'ured on one of the plates), and has sent me specimens alive, tells me that 

 it feeds on Zygademis nuttaU'd Gray (kindly identified by Mr. S. Watson). 

 lie says : " Tiie larva is flesh-colored, with dark spots, and feeds on the 

 flowers. It is gregarious, and appears during the flowering of the plant, viz, 

 late in April and beginning of May, at the end of which time it transforms to 

 a reddish-brown i)U[)a, which is not hatched before the next year, about the 

 time when the plant commences to flower, or shortly before. It is not rare.'' 



In living sjjecimens received from Mr. Belfrage, the body is very broad, 

 thick, somewhat flattened; the ground-color yellovvisli-orange, including the 

 head, which is immaculate. There is a dorsal and two lateral rows of large, 

 conspicuous, black blotches, the lower lateral row not seen from above. 

 Beneath is a row of small median black dots. 



Length, 0.60 inch. 



EupiTHECiA MisERULATA Grote. Plate 8, figs. 4, 5. 



Enpilheda miscnilala Grote, Pioo. Eut. .Soc. Pliil., ii, 32, pi. 2, fig. 4, 1863. 

 EiipUhecia interrupto-fanciala Pack., Fifth Rep. Peab. Acad. Sc, .SO, 1873. 



6 '^ , 6 2 . — Head and body cinereous ; anterior edge of front with blackish 

 scales along tlie orbits. Palpi rather long, scarcely so large as in E. ahsynthiata, 

 whitish above, dark on the sides. Antennae finely ciliated beneath, above 

 minutely annulated with black. Tliorax cinereous, uniformly concolorous 

 with the wings ; a transverse black band in front, ending on the patagia. Fore 

 wings uniformly cinereous, with indistinct lines or bands; on the outer third, 

 beyond the discal spot, russet-brown between the veinlets. Veinlets dotted 

 with black scales; on the costa, three dark, indistinct spots within and two 

 beyond the discal spot, the two outer ones being the largest, and sending faint 

 lines across the wings, all bent outward at right angles below the costa. 

 Discal dot large, distinct, black ; beyond is a l)road transverse area, where 

 tiie v(;inlets are dotted more thickly with black scales than elsewhere; 

 bounded beyond by a wavy, doubled, elbowed line, extending from costa to 

 median vein ; between the angle and the costa the line is bent inwa«-d on the 

 subcostal vein ; subinarginal whitish line very narrow, more zigzag and linear 

 llian usual, often interrupted, consisting of intervenular dots, edged externally 

 with dark scales. A geminate white dot on internal angle, very distinct, form- 

 ing a V, with the lower dot much smaller than the upper. Fringe long, cine- 

 reous, interrupted with dusky on the end of the veinlets. Hind wiuiis with 



