PSEUDETA. 449 



Noi-tliern and Eastern States, Massachusetts, Amliurst (Pacl-fird), 



I c? , 1 ? , New York, Colorado, New Mexico. JExj). 32-36 millim. 

 Larva. Dvar, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 145. 



Head small, green with black ocelli ; body with somites 4, 5, G and 



II slightly enlarged, the tubercles low rounded cones on the promi- 

 nent somites ; translucent green with oblique white bands ; a white 

 lateral band contracted at the thoracic incisures, interrupted and 

 })roduced subventrally at the abdominal incisures ; a narrow d(juble 

 dorsal line ; 1st two pail's of abdominal prolegs absent. Food-j^lant, 

 ThaUctrum. 5. 



8271. Pseudeva palligera. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 29.) 



Biva priUlgera, Grote, Papilio, i. p. 35 (1881); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 247. 



Head and thorax inifous mixed with yellow ; antennae white ; 

 fore tarsi, pectus behind, and hind legs white ; abdomen Avhite 

 sliglitly irro rated with l)rown, the crests rufous. Fore AN-ing pale 

 A'elluw tinged Avith rufous and slightly irroi-ated with red-brown, 

 some pinkish in and beyond end of ceU, on postmedial area and on 

 terminal area above tornus, the veins streaked with red-brown ; 

 subljasal line represented by a curved red-bi'own striga from costa 

 with a slio-ht curved red-brown shade beyond it : antemedial line 

 red-brown, inwardly oblique, slightly mcm'ved in cell, then ex- 

 curved; orbicular defined by red-brown, round, an elliptie:il spot 

 defined by red-brown below it ; reniform defined by red-brown, 

 narrow, oblique ; postmedial line red-brown, defined on outer side 

 by a whitLsh shade diffused to apex to vein 4, then by a white line, 

 very obliquely excurved to below vein 7, then inwardly oblique and 

 almost straight ; a fine red-brown terminal line defined on inner 

 side by a pinkish white line to vein 3. Hind wing white, the 

 terminal area with a slight cupreous brown shade ; a slight some- 

 Avhat sinuous brown po.stmedial line ; a fine brown terminal lino 

 with a slight white line before it to vein 2 ; the xmderside white, 

 the costal area faintly tinged with rufous and irrorated with l)rown, 

 a curved brown postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Washington, Id", Colorado, California, Colusa 

 C). {Wahingham), 4 cT , 1 ?, Sierra Nevada, 2 S type. ^xp. 

 3S millim. 



8272. Pseudeva nihigera, n. sp. (Plate CCXXXYI. fig. 30.) 



(S ■ Head and thorax rufous mixed with yellow; antenniB whitish ; 

 palpi, pectus in front, and legs red-brown ; abdomen white tinged 

 witli red-brown, the crests rufous. Fore wing yellow suffused with 

 rufous and slightly irrorated with red-brown, tlie postmedial area 

 and terminal area above tornus with a slight pinkisli tinge, tlie 

 veins streaked with red-brown ; subbasal line slight, curved, red- 

 brown, from costa to median nervure, a slight curved red-brown 



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