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is hairy is almost certain, but what the " white loose down " can be, unless 

 the waxen wool of the plant-louse,* is difficult to determine. 



In Psyche, Vol. IV., p. 75, August, 1883, Prof. J. A. Lintner records 

 the capture of F. Tarqumius on May 25, 1878, by Mr. O. von Meske, 

 and mentions this as indicating two broods of this species, the second 

 appearing in August. My rearing the butterfly proves this to be the case, 

 and shows that the insect hibernates in the chrysalis. The tropical 

 butterfly, Characias., has, I believe, been found to be carnivorous. 



W. Hampton Patton, Hartford, Conn. 



A CORRECTION. 



The larvae described by me in Vol. VI., page 209, of Entomologica 

 Americana, are Heterocampa bmndata Walk, and not Heterocatnpa 

 subrotata Harvey as there designated. I have discovered this error on a 

 recent visit to Dr. Packard, where I had the opportunity of comparing 

 the moths with a specimen that Dr. Packard had compared with Walker's 

 types in the British Museum. I was unable to get this correction into 

 Ent. Amer., as the publication of that periodical has ceased. 



Harrison G. Dyar. 



BOOK NOTICE. 



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Bibliographical Catalogue of the Described Transformations of 

 North American Lepidoptera ; being Bulletin No. 35 of the 

 United States National Museum, by Henry Edwards, 1889. 



This work, issued by the Smithsonian Institution, is one of very great 

 value to the working lepidopterists of North America, and truly supplies 

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 The work extends to 147 pages octavo, and comprises a table of the 

 number of species in each family, of which descriptions of earlier stages 

 are recorded in this catalogue^ a list of the principal authors and publi- 

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 137 inclusive ; an appendix giving references to a few species which are 

 not distinguishable by modern authors, and a list of some of the most 

 valuable papers which have been published on this continent on the 



* Petnphigus ttssellatus (Fitch). 



P. tesselaia Osborn, Can. Ent., XIV., 61, (Apr., 1882). 



i F. alni Provancher, Nat. Can., Apr., 1890. 



