ZALE. 225 



Larva. Gnerin, Icou. R. Auiiu., Ins. pi, 89. f. 3 ; Guen. Noel. iii. p! 14 ; 

 French, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 131. 



Yellowish brown ; dorsal and lateral areas each with three 

 alternating light and dark stripes ; ventral surface paler with an 

 elliptical red-brown spot on each somite ; piliferous spots black, 

 each with a white spot on abdominal somites ; 1st and 2nd pair oi' 

 prolegs about half the length of the others. Food-plants : Willow 

 etc., forming a cocoon of leaves spini together by silk. 



Egg. Pale green with vertical ridges. 



*8021. Zale rhigodora. (Plate CCXXXII. fig. 32.) 

 Zale rhigodora, Dyar, Proc. U.S. Nut. Mus. xliv. p. 299 (1913). 



fS . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark red-brown. Fore wing 

 nearly uniform dark red-browii without distinct irroration or 

 striation ; the basal area with darker mottling and faint blackish 

 striation ; the antemedial line almost obsolete, defined on outer side 

 by bluish white, curved ; reniform small, blackish, slightly defined 

 on outer side by white ; postmedial line indistinctly double, black, 

 slightly waved, incurved at discal fold, where there is a small black 

 spot before it, escurved above and below vein 4, then inciirved, 

 defined on outer side by white at costa and with some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line blackish, distinct, excurved at 

 middle, then incurved, a slight curved dark shade beyond it from 

 termen at vein 4 to inner margin defined on outer side by bluish 

 white and with white spot below vein 3. Hind wing dark red- 

 brown ; several indistinct waved lines beyond the cell ; postmedial 

 line rather more distinct, double, waved ; subterminal line double, 

 dark, somewhat bent inwards between discal and submedian folds 

 and defined on outer side by bluish white except towards costa. 



9 . Wings with the bluish white shadings replaced hj blackish. 



Hah. Mexico, Misantla {Midler). Exp. 50 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. 



8022. Zale phseograpta, n. sp. (Plate CCXXIX. fig. 14.) 



$ . Head pale red-brown mixed with some darker brown ; 

 thorax fuscous brown slightly mixed with greyish ; palpi with 

 some blackish at base ; frons with lateral black bars ; pectus and 

 legs ochreous tinged with red-brown, the tarsi blackish with pale 

 rings ; abdomen pale ochreous brown, the base and terminal half 

 tinged with fuscous, the crests blackish, a blackish line at base of 

 anal tuft, the ventral surface ochreous white slightly irrorated with 

 browai. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous and slightly 

 irrorated with black, the costal area suffused with fuscous, the 

 basal area with red-brown ; antemedial line indistinctly treble, 

 sinuous, very indistinct to median nervure, then inwardly oblique ; 

 the medial area with three indistinct double sinuous lines, oblique 



TOL. XIII. t^ 



