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Hab. — Las Cruces, N. Mex. The typical specimen, now in 

 coll. Amer. Ent. Soc. was caught by Prof. C. H. T. Townsend 

 on Aug. II, 1894. Another specimen, retained in the coll. of 

 N. Mex. Exper. Station, was taken by the present writer on July 

 12, 1893. 



Three species of Parnopes are known already from America, 

 viz.: P. ckrysoprasmus Smith, 1874, from North Carolina; P. 

 edwardsii Cress., 1879, from California and Vancouver Island; 

 and P. fulvicornis Cam., i838, from Mexico. The present spe- 

 cies is allied to chrysoprasinus, but appears to be fully distinct; 

 it occupies just that portion of country where one might have 

 looked for a new species, judging from the distribution of the 

 known forms. Although when examined with a lens it is a most 

 brilliant insect, looked at from a short distance it seems quite 

 dull, owing to the peculiar blending of the colors. 



THECLA CALIFORNICA Edw. 

 By H. G. Dyar, New York. 



Larva. — Head greenish testaceous, brownish around the mouth, labrum 

 pale, jaws black. Body flat ventrally, with a subventral ridge; sides 

 sloping, dorsum flat, widest where the body is highest (joint 5) and nar- 

 rowing to each extremity; covered with minute white granulations and 

 fine, short, white pile. Color soft, light green, whitish on the sides; a 

 pair of distinct, white, subdorsal lines, beginning on joint 3 near together, 

 widening to joint 5, where they are 1.6 mm. apart, and then gradually 

 narrowing posteriorly, becoming fainter and somewhat difl^use on joints 

 11-13. A similar very distinct line on the subventral ridge, obsolete on 

 joint 2, but distinct even to the anal plate. On the sides, between these 

 lines, is a series of oblique, faint, white lines, two on each segment, joined 

 at their tops. The cervical shield in the centre of joint 2 is small, indis- 

 tinct, sunken, irregularly triangular. Length of larva 15 mm.; width 4.5 

 mm. 



Chrysalis. — Flattened ventrally; abdomen large, rounded, the segments 

 appressed, motionless, a slight depression behind the thorax. All mi- 

 nutely pilose. General color Indian purple,* mottled with blackish, the 

 cases dull greenish heavily mottled with black. An obtuse, paler, sub- 

 dorsal line (the two 1.2 mm. apart) and a faint black dorsal line, the latter 

 running the whole length. Length 9.5 mm.; width 4.5 mm. 



Food-plant. — Willow {Salix). Larvae from Yosemite, Cal. 



• Ridgway's Nomenclature of Colors, pi. viii, fig. 6. 



