OF WASHINGTON. 43' 



trum rubicundulum (Say), collected by him on November 7 on 

 the mainland opposite Plummer's Island, Maryland, between the 

 canal and the river. Several specimens were seen, of which these 

 were the only two captured. They were flying over, and in the 

 neighborhood of, some small swampy pools fed by a spring, and 

 one was observed to go through the motions of ovipositing. This 

 seemed a rather late date for dragonflies to be flying in this locality. 



Prof. Smith said he had found dragonflies of this species after 

 the I5th of October, and after a frost, in the cranberry bogs of 

 New Jersey. Mr. Sanderson said he had also found this species 

 in Delaware late in October, and Dr. Howard mentioned having 

 collected other species at Boise, Idaho, on the 2ist and 25th of the 

 same month. 



Dr. Dyar exhibited a lepidopterous larva, cocoon and moth, 

 concerning which he read the following paper : 



A LEPIDOPTEROUS LARVA ON A LEAF-HOPPER. 



{Epipyrops barberiana n. sp.) 

 By HARRISON G. DYAR. 



Mr. E. A. Schwarz has handed me a lepidopterous larva, co 

 coon and moth, of which species he found two examples at Las 

 Vegas Hot Springs, New Mexico. One larva fell into his beating- 

 net from pine (Pinus ponder osa], and the other was taken by Mr. 

 H. S. Barber, attached to a leaf-hopper which Mr. Heidemann 

 says is Issus species, near auroreus Uhler of the Fulgoridae, 

 occurring on the same tree. Mr. Barber states that the larva was 

 firmly attached on the dorsal surface of the abdomen under the 

 wings, and it required some force to remove it, but he did not 

 observe any attaching membrane. Mr. Schwarz at first took it 

 to be a species of Coccid allied to Dactylopius from its general 

 appearance. 



Prof. J. O. Westwood has published (Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., 

 519, 1876) an account of a lepidopterous insect living on Fulgora 

 candelaria at Hong Kong, China, from material collected by 

 Mr. J. C. Bowring, and deposited in the British Museum. He 

 named it Epipyrops anomala, new genus and species, and placed 

 it in the Arctiidae. The larva was stated to be covered with a 

 cottony coat, causing it to resemble a Coccus. Later (Trans. 

 Ent. Soc., Lond., 433, 1877), Prof. Westwood again referred to 

 this insect, and cited instances of an analogous, if not identical, 

 species (not bred) observed by Lieut-Col. Godwin Austen upon 

 Aphana species (Fulgoridae) in the Dillrang Valley, and by Mr. 



