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New Jersey coast. It has, to my knowledge, been taken in all 

 the hills from Atlantic City to Cape May; occurs during the latter 

 part of July, and is, owing to its color and the intense whiteness 

 of the sand, both difficult to see and to capture. 



C. marginipennis Dej. A species occurring in the mountain 

 districts of eastern Pennsylvania, of which I know very little, 

 not having taken any specimens. 



C. abdominalis Fab. Has frequently been reported as occurring 

 at DaCosta, N. J., and although I have made it a point for several 

 years to be in that neighborhood at the time of its appearance, 

 have never, until this season, been fortunate enough to see any. 

 During the last week in June ten or twelve specimens were seen 

 between Hammonton and DaCosta, N. J., the majority of which 

 were captured. It frequents the wagon-roads through the woods, 

 and does not confine itself to any particular locality as other Ci- 

 cindelae do, those that were observed being scattered in ones and 

 twos over the entire distance. 



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NOTE ON THE MOLTING OF PHO^ETRON PiTHECiUM, S. and A. A larva 

 of this species was observed to molt in the following manner: When pre- 

 paring to cast its skin it rested on a leaf, the head withdrawn beneath 

 joint 2 in the usual position of rest of larvae of this group. The skin ap- 

 peared loose, the long subdorsal processes shrunken, especially at the 

 bases, there tips transparent from the partial withdrawal of the inner part. 

 The larva jerked itself and rocked from side to side till the skin broke 

 along the dorsal line from the head to the last segment simultaneously. 

 As the chitinous part of the head of this insect does not extend up as far 

 as in other subfamilies of Bombycidae; the new head was readily with- 

 drawn and the larva extricated itself from its skin by a lateral oscillatory 

 movement, at the same time walking forward a little, which served to 

 draw out the subdorsal processes from their old enclosing skin. They 

 were bent backward by the operation nearly in line with the body, and 

 were seen to be attached to the body by a slight white filament, but it 



