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EXPLANATION OF PLATE XV. 



i. Acronycta pyralis n. sp. 9. Mamestra gussata n. sp. 



2. Noctua patefacta n. sp. 10. ingravis n. sp. 



3. " atricincta n. sp. n. larissa n. sp. 



4. " substrigata n. sp. 12. Neuronia americana Smith. 



5. Carneades vulpina n. sp. 13. Xylophasia contradicta n. sp. 



6. " acornis n. sp. 14. versuta n. sp. 



7. " recticincta n. sp. 15. ffouiohadena sfabilis n. sp. 



8. servitus n. sp. 16. Devatrabean.^. 



17. Plusia insolita n. sp. 



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NOTE ON THE LARVA OF HARRISIMEMNA. 



By HARRISON G. DYAR. 



We have two recognizable figures and a general description 

 of this larva (ff. trisignata Walk.), but no exact account of the 

 arrangement of its setae. Consequently Mr. Grote was recently 

 in doubt as to whether it should be placed in the Apatelidae, a 

 family defined on larval characters (Abhandl. des naturwissen- 

 schaft. Vereins zu Bremen, xiv, 15). The larva occurs rarely on 

 lilac and Ilex, and I have before me a specimen obtained on the 

 latter plant by Mr. Doll. The setae are in the condition result- 

 ing from a degeneration from a typical wart formation. In most 

 exposed parts of the body the normal tubercles bear but a single 

 seta, but tubercle vi bears many setae, and there is a crown of 

 hairs around tubercle iv on joint 13. It will prove that the warts 

 are much better developed in the younger stages, which I have 

 not seen. On the humped up and prominent portions of the 

 body (joints 5-7 and 12) the tubercles are produced and arise 

 from large corneous areas, i and ii being nearly in line and curi- 

 ously approximated. In the middle region the tubercles are 

 small. The hairs from the thorax are long and coarse, those 

 from the anterior edge of the shield remain entangled in the cast 

 case, and, as the shield remains attached to the head, the curious 

 string of cast heads results. The larva is one of the oddest of 

 the Apatelidae and would well repay a careful study of all its 

 stages to one having the opportunity. 



OBITUARY. 



LADISLAUS DUDA, Professor at the Gymnasium of Prag, died at that 

 place in August last. He was well known by his researches on the hem- 

 ipterous fauna of Bohemia. 



JULES FERDINAND FALLOW died in Paris on June igth, aged 83 years. 

 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for November, was mailed October 31, 1895. 



