42 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



LEPISESIA FLAVO-FASCIATA. 



The notice of the capture of Lepisesia Flavo- fascial a in Canada re- 

 minds me that I had omitted recording its occurrence in Colorado. I 

 have taken it there near South Park, above 10,000 ft. elevation. The 

 larva feeds on Epilobium in July and August, and varies from greenish- 

 yellow to brown ; when young it has a yellowish caudal horn which it 

 loses when half grown (at third moult ?) and it then presents a shining 

 black " button " like that of Thy reus Abbott ii. When full grown the 

 larva is of a dirty olive brown color, with darker mottlings and fine longi- 

 tudinal lines. It pupates under leaves without making a cocoon or enter- 

 ing the earth. The moth flies in June in Colorado (but I had one emerge 

 last March from a pupa that had been kept in a cool room all winter). 

 This species is partial to the flowers of a species of Ribes, flying swiftly 

 from one bush to another, and appears to have all the habits of the two 

 small species of Hemaris that frequent the same locality. The larva of 

 Alypia Lorqimiii is also abundant on Epilobium at the same time, and 

 I was collecting it when I discovered the larva of L. Flavo-fasciata. 



David Bruce, Brockport, Monroe Co., N. Y. 



SCENT-GLANDS IN THE LARVA OF LIMACODES. 



Described from four larvae found on Liquidambar, Oct. 18. When 

 disturbed the larva has the power of emitting drops of clear liquid from 

 pores along the edges of the back, this liquid having an odour similar to 

 that of crushed Liquidambar leaves. These pores are sixteen in number, 

 situated along the edges of the back, their location being indicated by 

 darker green spots just below the edge ; between the seventh and eighth 

 pairs of pores on each side is a white spot, and behind the eighth a 

 white dot. 



The back varies from entirely brown, excepting the anterior border, 

 to having the anterior fourth, a median stripe from it, and an irregular 

 spot behind the middle, green. The side is green with more or less 

 brown beneath. 



The larva is invented boat-shaped or casket-shaped, obtusely truncate 

 anteriorly and prolonged into a short tail posteriorly ; hump-backed. At 

 the median angle on each upper edge is a prominence on each side, 

 behind which and separated from it by the fifth pair of pores is a smaller 



