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eral color is a dirty 3-ellowish white with two slightly darker 

 spots on the back at the base of the mesothorax, the series of 

 five spiracles on each side near the base of the lateral pro- 

 cesses being shining brown. The processes are annulated by 

 a series of constrictions, and bristly; the wings pass under 

 the anterior and median legs and over the posterior pair, the 

 antennae overlying the wings and hardly passing under the 

 anterior and median legs. Length 8 to 10 mm. 



Larvce and pupce were found under logs, in damp places, 

 in company with perfectly fresh specimens of the perfect 

 insect, at Columbus, Texas, a little before the middle of Jul}^ 

 The larvce were of various sizes and are gregarious in habit, 

 emitting a milky rluid when disturbed or handled — they 

 vary somewhat in their proportions, those about to pupate 

 being shorter and broader. The pupte were attached by the 

 posterior extremity to the bark of the log, the larval skin ad- 

 hering as shown in the figure. 



Ellychxia californica, J/ofs. 



Color of alcoholic specimen of pupa dirty 3'ellowish white, 

 tinged Vv'ith rosy on tlii middle of the prothorax, meso- and 

 metathorax, and all but the three of the dorsal segments. 

 The ventral segments also show this tinge. 



Form rather broad, dorso-ventrally compressed; a fair idea 

 of the general appearance of this insect may be had from the 

 plate, of which fig. 3 represents a front, and 3- a side view. 

 The front and side margins of the prothorax are thin and some- 

 what Vvidely explanate, covering the head; wings tucked 

 under the antennae and two pairs of legs but passing over the 

 posterior pair. Tarsal joints indistinctly marked. Sides of 

 abdomen doubly serrate, the points diverging. 



Described from a specimen found by me under a log at 

 Fort Wrangel, Alaska, in June, 1891. As the pupa is some- 

 what shrunken from immersion in spirits, a description of the 

 depressions and elevations of the surface is apt to be rather 

 misleading 'than useful. 



