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tree trunk. Cocoons formed in the nest, however, appeared 

 to be due to disease, as usually they were found to contain 

 unhealthy looking pupae. 



6. A Note on Autographa brassicae Riley (Lepid.). 



A nearly full-grown larva of this species was found at Paris, 

 Texas, July 5, 1904, feeding upon tobacco. Three days later 

 a cocoon was found in a furrow along the upper surface of a 

 leaf. It was merely a triangular enclosure of fine-spun, white, 

 closely-woven silk, through which the larva was plainly visi- 

 ble. The latter pupated at 12.30 P. M., July 8. On July 13 

 the chrysalis commenced to change to a brownish color at the 

 wings and the moth emerged during the early morning of 

 July 14, after a pupal stage of about five days, eighteen hours. 

 On August n, 1904, the larvae were still common on tobacco 

 in a garden, quite badly injuring some of the plants. On 

 July 17 it was noted that the adults were about lights at night 

 in considerable numbers. 



7. Euptoieta claucfia (Lepid.). 



The very beautiful toy-like chrysalis of this butterfly was obtained 

 at Paris, Texas, October 16, 1904; it became almost black just before 

 emergence, the silver spots in the wings fading considerably. After 

 emergence, I could not force it to take any position other than one, 

 in which the wings could hang down. It was obviously uneasy in 

 any other position. 



8. Celatoria diabroticae Shimer (Dipt.). 



A puparium of this species was found clinging to the leaf of a corn 

 plant (Paris, Texas, May 27, 1904) and another in the same position 

 but near the dead body of Diabrotica vittata; the latter had one side 

 of the abdomen missing and the elytra. An adult emerged from one 

 of these on May 31, 1904. 



9. Anisota senatoria Hubner (Lepid.). 



A colony of the caterpillars of this moth were quite often 

 found late in August, 1902, at Blacksburg, Virginia, ringing 

 to the naked twigs and leaf petioles of oak ; they had stripped 

 these latter themselves. But they were found on certain kinds 

 of oak only and never on iiigrnm; they even refused the latter 

 when urged by hunger as I found by experiment. Professor 

 E. A. Smythe, of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, told me 



