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cies) ; the scape is all yellow and the lower half of the pedicel. The 

 infuscation of the fore wing is narrower, more along the venation 

 (marginal and stigmal veins, mostly, against and beneath them). There 

 are also on the abdomen above, near base, two obscure marginal spots 

 of ochreous and along the sides a rather conspicuous broken stripe of 

 the same color (ventro-lateral aspect), the spots of which it is com- 

 posed being much longer than wide on segments 2 and 5 ; this stripe 

 does not extend to the apex by some little distance. Otherwise about 

 as in io. Both species have a glabrous plate, wider than long, just 

 cephalad of the spiracle and there are thimble punctures on the scu- 

 tellum in longitudinal lines laterad (two lines in io, one of three or four 

 punctures in this species). Submarginal vein distinctly, abruptly broken 

 in regularity in both species. In this species, the middle tibial spur is 

 very long and slender (also in io). 



Described from one female in the U. S. N. M., labeled 

 "Olyn.v flavimaculata Ashm., Ramsey County, Minnesota/' 



Type: Catalogue No. 19631, U. S. N. M., the specimen on 

 a tag; middle and hind tibiae and the antennae on a slide. 



Insect Notes for the Season of 19 15 (Lep. t Col., Dip.). 



By HARRY L. JOHNSON, South Meriden, Conn. 



Abundance of Feralia jocosa, etc. (Lep.). 



I have taken jocosa sparingly for a number of years on the 

 common hemlock (Tsuga canadcnsis?}. A little grove of 

 these trees is situated on the Oregon* Road on a cliff of rocky 

 formation overlooking the Connecticut River and I have made 

 it a point to visit this place each year for this species, usually 

 securing two to three a day for several days. This year, 

 however, I decided to visit what is known as Hemlock Grove, 

 situated about halfway between Meriden and South Meriden 

 in a park known as Terrace Garden. This grove is also on 

 high rocky ground overlooking a stream, so that locality and 

 surroundings being similar, I expected good results. 



Three warm, sunny days in April were selected as best for 

 collecting. On the first day, April 7th, some twenty-six speci- 



* Oregon is a small cliff-enclosed valley bounding South Meriden on 

 the northwest. This place has always gone by the name of Oregon or 

 the Oregon road. Possibly the place took its name from this road, 

 which goes through it. The place is very thinly settled and is desig- 

 nated on the map of Meriden as Cheshire Road, although it is always 

 spoken of as Oregon. 



