THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 19 



PROF. J. B. SMITH'S LIST OF LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY G. H. FRENCH, CARBONDALE, ILL: 



While I recognize the fact that each one of us has a right to make 

 lists of insects to suit himself, and others are not obliged to follow them, 

 errors of identity are not a matter of opinion, and are therefore subject to 

 criticism. With this view I wish to point out a few errors in the genus 

 Catocala in Prof. John B. Smith's new " List of Lepidoptera." First, 

 var. Vireiis, French, is not a variety of Cordelia, Hy. Edw., but of 

 Amasia ; and Cordelia is not the one figured by Dr. Strecker, pi. 9, f 

 12. My examples of Cordelia were identified by the author of the 

 species. Second, there is no good reason for separating the two forms of 

 Reteda. I have taken hundreds of them ; they fiy at the same time and 

 behave alike in the woods, and grade into each other. Flebilis is not a 

 variety oi Retecta, but an insect of very different habits. Dr. Strecker's 

 figure, so often referred to, pi. 9, f 4, is not Flebilis, but a small form 

 of Desperata. I had an example from Dr. Strecker, and have bred 

 it from Desperata eggs. I cannot regard Ulalume as a variety of 

 Lacrymosa, as they have very different habits in the woods, as well as 

 the differences of size and markings that are seen in the insects in 

 cabinets. I have taken all the named forms of Lacrytnosa, as well as 

 numerous intergrades ; have taken quite a number of examples of 

 Ulalume, but no intergrades with any form of Lacrymosa. 



THE LARVA OF ANCERYX FASCIATA, SWAINS. 



BY T. D. A. COCKERELL, KINGSTON, JAMAICA. 



In July, 1 89 1, Mr. I. I. Bowrey gave me a sphingid larva, about to 

 pupate, which I described as follows : — 



Larva. — Choerocampa - like, ground colour pale ochreous, sides 

 immaculate. Dorsal region (sharply defined from sides) dark, from a 

 close, fine black marbling or mottling, which tends to run in anteropos- 

 terior lines. A band-like process of this marbling enters the side area on 

 each segment, obliquely projecting towards, but hardly reaching the spiracle. 



Underneath the larva is more or less mottled, and there is a narrow 

 black ventral line. Abdominal legs dark. Thoracic legs rather pale. 

 Anterior part of fourth segment above heavily marked with black. Head 

 pale, with a dark brown band down each side of the face. Caudal horn 

 small and pale. 



Food-plant. — Carica papaya, Linn. (West Indian Papaw.) 



Hab. — Kingston^ Jamaica. 



The imago emerged Aug. 7th, and proved to be Anceryx fasciata. 



The present larva differs appreciably from that of ^. edivardsii, Butl., 

 as described by Mr. Hy. Edwards in Entom. Amer. III., p. 165. So far 

 as the larval characters go, Anceryx and Dilophonota (whether regarded 

 as two genera or one) seem to belong rather to the Choerocampinoe than 

 the Sphinginoe, with which they are placed in Prof J. B. Smith's new 

 list. The moths, also, while coloured like Sphinginoe, have a somewhat 

 Choerocampa-Hke build. 



