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SemiotMsa graaitata Guen. 



Head with rounded lobes, flat in front; white before, reddish at sides, 

 with some brownish spots and a black patch below the apex of each lobe; 

 ocelli black, mouth sordid whitish; width 1.2 mm. Abdominal feet pres- 

 ent on joints 10 and 13, normal. On each segment a series of low, smooth, 

 black tubercles, each bearing a rather long, black hair; a dorsal and lat- 

 eral row of white, intersegmental patches and an interrupted orange, 

 subdorsal band; the rest of the body finely mottled with black and white 

 on a sordid purplish ground color; a black dorsal patch in the centre of 

 ■each segment. Thoracic feet black. 



Pupa. — Wing cases prominent, rounded; abdomen cylindrical, slightly 

 tapering; cremaster conical, with two divergent spines; cases creased, 

 abdomen mmutely punctured. Color blackish brown. Length 10 mm.; 

 width 3 mm. 



Food-plants. — Ribes 



Larva from Yosmite, Cal. 



Fhasiane irrorata Pack. 



Head rounded, green with a yellowish line behind the eyes; antennae 

 pale. Body cylindrical, abdominal feet on joints 10 and 13. Color green, 

 finely streaked longitudinally with yellowish on dorsum and venter; a 

 stigmatal yellow band on the fold, continuous with the band on the head 

 and passing on to the last pair of abdominal feet. A few short, black 

 setae, visible with a lens. 



Pupa. — Abdomen tapering, punctured; wing cases slightly creased; 

 cremaster long, tapering, ending in two divergent points. Color brown. 



Food-plant. — Cottonwood {Populus) . 



Larva from Phoenix, Ariz. 



Selidosema jatnrnaria Guen. 



Head scarcely shining, greenish, testaceous, ocelli brown, mouth brown- 

 ish; width 1.8 mm. Abdominal feet on joints 10 and 13. Color green, 

 the folds of the segmental incisures yellowish. A dorsal band of four 

 narrow, pale yellow lines and a broader stigmatal line, all slightly wavy. 

 Spiracles faintly reddish. The larva rests flat on the leaf like a Noctuid. 



Pupa. — Cylindrical, rounded; the abdomen small, tapering; cases 

 finely creased, body punctured ; cremaster cylindrical, tapering, with 

 two outcurving thick spines from its end. Length 15 mm.; width 5 mm. 



Food-plant. — Rhamtius. 



Larva from Yosemite, Cal. 



Eucaterva varlaria Grote. 



^S^i^ (from abdomen of ? moth).— Elliptical, flattened on two opposite 

 sides and truncate at one end, densely covered with hexagonal depres- 

 sions; color very pale green. Length .8mm., thickness .5 mm. Underthe 

 microscope the hexagonal areas are seen to be formed by broad, elevated. 



