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Outer half of hincl wing below smoothly purplish, clouded, 

 faintly marked, contrasted with the basal part of wing. 

 Hind wing above heavily black shaded at base. 

 Size larger. * 



Band below little obscured by dark scales, 



frigga Thunb, 

 Band below much obscured by dark scales, 



var. saga Kaden. 



Size smaller, more obscured var. improba Butl. 



Hind wing not so shaded. 



Hind wing with the costal whitish spot below 

 more or less joined to basal one ; fore wings 



often angled bellona Fabr. 



Costal spo/t below separate ; fore wing not angled. 



Hind wijag below outwardly purplish, .cpithore Boisd. 

 Hind wyrig below outwardly pale ochraceous, 



youngl Holl. 



Dr. Dyar then read the following paper : 



THE LIFE HISTORY OF A SECOND EPIPLEMID. 

 (Caflizzia amorata Pack.) 

 By HARRISON G. DYAR. 



I have previously described, in part before this society (Can. 

 Ent., xxx, 155, 1898 ; Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., iv, 414, 1901), the 

 life history of one species of Epiplemidae Cidlidapteryx dryop- 

 terata Grote ; I am now able to refer to a second species, 

 Calhzzia. amorata Pack., and show that it agrees in all those 

 peculiar characters with the first known species. My acquain 

 tance with C. amorata larva began in 1894 when I found a num 

 ber of them on a wild honeysuckle bush at Keene Valley in the 

 Adirondack mountains of New York. Only the smallest larvae 

 are usually found on the leaves, the older ones become brown in 

 color, and hide, probably at the base of the plant. So I saw only 

 the small ones and thought the minute colorless larvae were some 

 species of " Micro." and they did not interest me enough to 

 seriously attempt to raise them. I did not see the species again 

 till 1900, when I met with the larvae on the summit of Stony 

 Man Mountain in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia. This 

 time I quickly suspected their identity, but was unable to bring 

 them to maturity. The next season Miss Wellesca Pollock 

 kindly undertook to get some more from the mountain and she 

 successfully carried them to the pupa stage. The moths 

 emerged this Spring. 



