226 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September, 



long, light brown hairs rising from brown dots; head bluish white. 

 Food-plant Taraxacum. Larva moulted August 12th. 



After first moult. — Two-eighths of an inch long; pea-green, 

 with white subdorsal and side Hues. Moulted August 20th. 



After second moult. — Length nine-twentieths of an inch; color 

 pale pea-green ; subdorsal and side lines yellowish white; spira- 

 cles of the same color; between the subdorsal lines the back is 

 mottled with yellowish white. Moulted September ist. 



After third moidt. — Length three-fourths of an inch; no per- 

 ceptible change in color and markings. Moulted September 15th. 



Full grown larva. — One inch and a quarter long; somewhat 

 attenuated towards the head; color pale green; dorsal line darker 

 green — this line is widened in the middle of every segment, 



thus XX ; the side lines are white. The laWa spun up Sep- 

 tember 24th, gathering some of the leaves about it. 



Cocoon. — Silken, rather flimsy, yellowish white. 



Part of the brood went into hibernation after second moult. 



Los Angeles County, California, Rhopalocera taken from 

 Feb. 16 to 28, 1893. 



By Ernest J. Oslar. • 



