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brown, with a very pale line at their bases. Hind wings fuscous 

 with ashy brown fringes. 



Habitat. Europe, New York. Food, Speedwell ( Veronica 

 chamoudrys) . 



"Larva. Length, about five-eighths of an inch, and scarcely 

 so stout as seems usual in the genus. Head small, and narrower 

 than the second segment ; it is polished, rather flat in front, but 

 rounded at the sides. Body cylindrical, of fairly uniform width, 

 but tapering a little at the extremities ; segmental divisions well 

 defined; the skin, with a soft and half-transparent appearance, 

 is sparingly clothed with short hairs. There are two varieties, 

 which are perhaps about equally numerous. In one of them the 

 ground color is a bright grass green ; in the other it is equally 

 yellow green; in both forms the head is pale yellowish brown, 

 very prettily reticulated with intense black. The dark-green, or, 

 in some of the specimens, dark-brown alimentary canal forms the 

 dorsal stripe ; subdorsal lines rather indistinct, grayish white ; 

 below there is a still more indistinct waved line of the same color ; 

 there is, again, a similarly colored faint line along the spiracular 

 region, and the segmental divisions are also of this pale color. In 

 some specimens the hairs are gray; in others, brown. Ventral 

 surface uniformly of the same color as the ground of the dorsal 

 area ; the legs reticulated and the prolegs tipped with black. 



" Papa. The pupa is attached by the tail only, is rather long, 

 but slender. The head, which is the thickest part, is abruptly 

 rounded, and has the snout very prominent ; thorax and abdomen 

 rounded above, rather flattened beneath, and attenuated strongly 

 to the anal point ; eye, leg and wing cases fairly prominent, the 

 last prolonged a considerable distance over the abdominal seg- 

 ments." (Porritt.) 



STENOPTILIA EXCLAMATIONIS. 



Mimeseoptilus exclamationis Wlsm., Pter. Cal. and Ore., p. 32, Plate III., 

 fig. 10 (1880). 



Expanse of wings, 22 mm. Head and palpi above, gray, with 

 brown scales on the sides and beneath the palpi ; thorax gray, 

 with a brown spot on the top. Antennae brownish gray. Abdo- 

 men ochreous brown. Legs brownish above, whitish beneath ; 

 feet white. 



Fore wings gray, sprinkled with fuscous ; costa fuscous ; a row 

 of fuscous spots runs from the base along under the cell for one- 

 third the length of the wing ; a small fuscous dash under the costa 



