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trasting, the color passuig over vertex of head. Length 20 mm. ; width 

 6 mm. 



Cocoon. — Composed entirely of silk, white, resembling. a spider's nest. 

 Spun between leaves or in a folded leaf on the tree. 



Food-platits. — Eucalyptus, Ricinus, Rhaninus, Salix, etc. 



Larvae from Santa Barbara, Cal. All the species here de- 

 scribed, except the two following and the last one, were kindly 

 determined by Dr. Geo. T. Hulst. 



Endropia hypochraria H.-S. 



First stage. — Head red-brown, with a lateral white spot and one above 

 the mouth; width .4 mm. Body six times banded, with whitish bands be- 

 tween the thoracic and abdominal feet, the bands containing rather large 

 white spots. A brown ventral line. Lenth 4 mm. 



Second stage. — Head white; a large carmine-brown patch covers the 

 vertex and extends down each side before the eyes and above the mouth; 

 width 6 mm. Body carmine-brown, marked as before. 



Third stage. — Head as before, the brown patch more extensive; width 

 .9 mm. Pale bands on the body much interrupted; later the head be- 

 comes brown mottled with white, black in front with two irregular ver- 

 tical white lines and white clypeus. Body purple-brown finely streaked 

 longitudinally with yellowish; venter yellowish; subdorsal yellow spots 

 on joints 5, 6, 7 and 8 and stigmatal black ones on joints 5-9. 



Fourth stage. — Head pale brown with dark brown mottlings and a ver- 

 tical black band each side of the front, dentate inwardly, the two con- 

 joined at the vertex and above mouth; width about 1.3 mm. Body yel- 

 lowish wood-brown, mottled with darker brown, with an indistinct dorsal 

 and ventral band and subdorsal, lateral and two subventral rows of mi- 

 nute segmentary elevated black spots, each of the latter bearing a small, 

 inconspicuous black hair; spiracles black. Length 29 mm. 



Fifth stage. — Head as before; width 1.8 mm. Body also the same. 

 Ventral pale band bordered sharply with dark brown subdorsal and sub- 

 stigmatal interrupted bands, paler than the ground color. 



Sixth stage. — Head pale brown, mottled with darker brown; white in 

 front with black specks and mottlings, separating two broad black bands 

 which unite at the vertex. Width 2.7 mm. Body rust-red, with fine lon- 

 gitudinal wavy black lines in germinate dorsal, three or four irregular 

 lateral and four ventral bands; between the two pairs, or the latter, a broad 

 pale medio-ventral band. Feet and joint, 2 paler. The minute pilifer- 

 ous tubercles are black. The spiracles have a black border. 



Pupa. — Formed in a folded leaf and held in place by numerous threads. 

 It is black, shining, red-brown in all the sutures and joinings of the 

 parts. The abdominal segments taper rapidly; the cremaster is large 

 and stout and terminates in two much-recurved opines with several shorter 

 knobbed hairs growing from their bases. Length 15 mm. 



