ZALE. 225 



Larva. Gnl-v'm, Icon. R. Aniiii., lus. pi. 89. f. 3 ; Quen. Xocl. iii. p. 14 ; 

 French, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 131. 



Yellowish brown ; dorsal and lateral areas oacli with tlu'ce 

 alternating light and dark sti'ipes ; ventral surface paler with an 

 elliptical red-brown spot on each somite ; piliferous spots black, 

 each with a white spot on abdominal somites ; 1st and 2nd pair oi" 

 prolegs aboi;t half tlie length of the others. Food-plants : Willow 

 etc., forming a cocoon of leaves spmi together by silk. 



Egg. Pale green with vertical ridges. 



*8021. Zale rMgodora. (Pkte CCXXXII. fig. 32.) 



Zah rhigodora, Pyar, Troc. U.S. Nat. iMiis. xliv. p. 299 (1913). 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark red-brown. Fore wing 

 nearly uniform dark red-browii without distinct irroration or 

 striation ; the basal area with darker mottling and faint blackish 

 striation ; the antemedial line ahnost obsolete, defined on outer side 

 by bluish white, curved ; reniform small, blackish, slightly defined 

 on outer side by Viliite ; postmedial line indistinctly double, black, 

 slightly waved, incurved at discal fold, where there is a small black 

 spot before it, excvirvcd above and below vein 4, then incurved, 

 defined on outer side by white at costa and with some Avhite points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line blackish, distinct, excurved at 

 middle, then incm-ved, a slight cm*ved dark shade beyond it from 

 termen at vein -1 to inner margin defined on outer side b}^ bluish 

 white and with white spot below^ vein 3. Hind wing dark red- 

 brown ; several indistinct waved lines beyond the cell ; postmedial 

 line rather moi'e distinct, double, waved ; subterminal line double, 

 dark, somewhat bent inwards between discal and submedian folds 

 and defined on outer side by bluish Avhite except toAvards costa. 



9 . Wings with the l)hush white shadings replaced by blackish. 



Hah. Mexico, Misantla {Midler). Exp. 50 mil'lim. This 

 s])ecies is unknoAvn to me, figured fi'om a drawing from tvpe in 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. 



8022. Zale phaeograpta, n. sp. (Plate CCXXIX. fig. 14.) 



5 . Head pale red-brown iiiixed with some darker brown ; 

 thorax fuscous brown slightly mixed with greyish ; paljji with 

 some blackish at base ; frons with lateral black Ijars ; pectus and 

 legs ochi'cous tinged with red-brown, tlie tarsi bkckish with ]iale 

 rings ; abdomen pale ochreous brown, the base and terminal half 

 tinged with f\iscous, the crests blackish, a blackish line at l)ase of 

 anal tuft, the ventral surtace ochreous white slightly irrorated with 

 brown. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous and slightly 

 irrorated with black, tbe costal area suffused with fuscous, tlio 

 basal area with red-brown ; antemedial line indistinctly treble, 

 sinuous, very indistinct to median nervure, then inwardly oblique; 

 the medial area with three indistinct double sinuous lines, oblique 



AOL. XIII. <i 



