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parchment texture. In the meantime I had sent to Dr. H. G. Dyar 
some of the larvce for examination and identification. He wrote me 
that they were evidently highly specialized Tineids and of much inter¬ 
est, and expressed his hope that I would raise the moth. In a little less 
than four weeks from the time the cocoons were made the moths ap¬ 
peared. I at once recognized them as Mieza igninix Walk., the Ence- 
mia crassinervella of Smith’s check-list. This dainty little creature, 
with primaries of silvery white, striped and dotted with black and sec¬ 
ondaries of vivid rose color, is not uncommon at Punta Gorda, and I 
had taken it several times this season resting on leaves near the spot 
where I found the larvae. Dr. Dyar will publish a full description of 
the larva, with notes. 
A DESCRIPTION OF THE LARVA FOUND BY MRS. SLOSSON. 
By Harrison G. Dyar, Ph. D. 
Considerable interest attaches to Mrs. Slosson’s discovery of the 
larva of Encemia crassinervella, since in it we find an exposed feeding 
Tineid. These are always of interest, for as soon as the Tineids aban¬ 
don their concealed mode of life numerous specializations occur, and 
usually in the direction of some higher family of the group—the super¬ 
family Tineides. I was able recently to describe a Tineid (Butalis 
basilar is Zell), which had assumed many characters of the Pterophoridae, 
and now I shall describe the present species with strong tendencies 
toward the Eucleidae, yet without losing its essential Tineid characters. 
Larva. —Flattened, thick, head partially retractile, but large, 
joint 12 slightly enlarged dorsally ; shape of Harrisina, but more flex¬ 
ible, suggesting the Eucleidae by the soft, subventral region ; feet very 
soft, short, of the normal number. Setae single, except a few irregularly 
distributed secondary setae, or rather reduplications of the primary ones, 
short, stiff, glandular tipped. Setae i and ii approximate, in line trans¬ 
versely, a secondary seta adjacent to i or ii or both, irregular in posi¬ 
tion. Seta iii single; iv and v approximate, yet by no means consoli¬ 
dated ; iv a little above v, with or without a secondary seta below and 
behind it; vi double ; two setae on the leg. Joints 3 and 4 with both 
primary and sub-primary setae, a secondary seta near i a and i b and 
near iia and iib on joint 4, but variable. Seta iii seems absent on 
joint 4, though present on 3. Cervical shield large, black, with six 
