368 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



" Fig. 87. — Hyphantria cunea : a-/, wings of a series of moths, 

 showing the variations from the pure white form to one profusely dotted 

 with black and brown." 



Doubtless, Riley believed that he was portraying cunea, textor, 

 punctata, and punctatissima, but strange to say, — • 



Not one of his cuts answers to Drury's figure ! 



I need not enlarge upon this. Let anyone who is interested in the 

 matter take Riley's figure 87, and place it beside Drury's — either in the 

 original or in Westwood's reprint— and the discrepancies will at once 

 strike the eye. 



In my former paper I spoke of a much-spotted Spilosoma taken in 

 company with S. congrua at the Gomin Swamp. I have long known 

 insects of this kind. The late Mr. F. B. Caulfield showed me one, twenty 

 years ago ; and I have met with other specimens since. No one 

 acquainted with this moth would believe that it came from a Fall web- 

 worm. Five specimens of it were taken in this locality in 1897. I have 

 a pair of them in my collection, and I have just compared the male with 

 Drury's figure in Westwood's reprint, and it agrees with it exactly — so 

 exactly that one might imagine it to be the very specimen from which the 

 engraver worked. I give a description of these insects : 



Expanse of wings, iS^o lines; breadth of fore wing, 4 lines; 

 breadth of hind wing, 4^ lines ; length of body, 8 lines. 



Thorax broad, white above and fluffy ; abdomen yellow with white 

 borders to the segments and a white tip, and with five longitudinal rows 

 of black dots. Antennae pectinated, white above and dark brown 

 beneath ; eyes brown ; palpi dark brown ; fore part of thorax under the 

 head brown ; front legs — femora luteous, spotted with black on the inner 

 side ; tibice and tarsi white on the outer side, dark brown on the inner ; 

 the tibiae of the middle and hindmost pairs of legs spurred. Fore wings 

 white with a faint testaceous tinge, and with four irregular broken rows of 

 brown spots. The spots near the apex are somewhat elongated and 

 wedge-shaped. From the apex to the middle of the hind margin, close 

 to the fringe, is a row of brown dots. On the under side of the fore wings 

 there are some dark brown apical dashes, and a brown lunette towards 

 the middle of the wing, but nearer the costa than the hind margin. The 

 hind wings have a brown lunette near the middle of the upper part, and 



