scepsis. — pboptbia. 3G7 



1148. Scepsis fulvicollis, insert : — 



Scepsis paclardii, var. cocklei, Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxvii. p. 792 

 (1904). 



Differs from var. paccardi in the fore wing being blackish with 

 the disk somewhat semihyaline. 



Br. Columbia, Kaslo. 



Egg. Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxiii. p. 264 (1901). 



Low eonoidal, more than hemispherical, base flat ; shining pale 

 yellow, finely and nearly hexagonally reticulate. 



Larva. Stage I. Head rounded, slightly bilohed. whitish shading 

 to brown with black spot on face of each lobe and smaller ones over 

 ocelli ; body whitish ; cervical shield brown ; tubercles and anal 

 plate slaty black ; hair long, black, spinulose. 



Stage II. Head luteous with black patches on lobes ; body some- 

 what luteous with broad dorsal brown stripe widening at incisures ; 

 a narrower irregular lateral shade forming broad rings about 

 warts iii. ; hair black and pale. 



Stage III. The hair on somites 2, 3, 11, 12 long; body dull 

 reddish with darker dorsal line, a pale subdorsal line and traces of 

 a lateral line ; warts black. 



Stage IV. Warts dark grey with black hair-tubercles and black 

 and white hair. 



Stage V. Head pale brown ; body black, somite 1 and ventral 

 surface grey; warts large, black. 



Stage VI. Dorsal surface grey with black-defined dorsal line ; 

 subdorsal line distinctly defined by orange, especially on posterior 

 somites; sides black ; substigmatal line pale yellow ; hair on som- 

 ites 2, 11, 12 long black, the rest paler; warts defined by whitish 

 rings. 



Food-plant, grasses. 9-10. 



1149a. Scepsis subhyalina. (Plate XXI. fig. 7.) 

 Scepsis svibhyalina, Hmpsn. A.M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 175 (1901). 



<3 . Pale ochreous ; head white; frons and vertex with black 

 spots; palpi and antenna? ochreous and fuscous; metathorax with 

 blade spots ; abdomen with lateral series of black points ; wings 

 semihyaline. Fore wing with very obscure diffused fuscous medial 

 and subterminal lines. Hind wing nearly white. 



Ilab. Bolivia, Tanampaya (Garlejoj?), 1 <3 type. Exp. 10 

 millim. 



1150 a. Propyria pelopia. 



Tcdara pelopia, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 125, pi. 12. f. 21 (1885) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 291. 



Fore wing with vein (5 stalked with 7, 8, 9, veins 8, 9 coincident. 

 5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; palpi at base, the sides 



