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9. A New Locality for Polynema consobrinus Girault (Hymen.). 

 Mr. R. L. Webster has also sent me a single male specimen 

 of this species on a slide labelled "On leaves of Ptelea trifoli- 

 ata, associated with Empoasca flavescens, Ames, Iowa, July 

 15, 1911." He suggests that it may be parasitic upon the eggs 

 of the Empoasca; the suggestion is probably true. 



Last Year's Work with Catocalae and other 



Lepidoptera. 

 By R. R. ROWLEY and L. BERRY, Louisiana, Missouri. 



As in the previous spring, the eggs of Catocalae were kept 

 cool till a supply of young leaves was ready for the hatch- 

 lings, and the earliest larvae were those of innubens that 

 emerged on the 5th of May, followed on the 7th by those of 

 both retecta and luciana. 



May 1 2th, a larva of C. luciana, feeding on willow and five 

 days old, having hatched May 7th, 



was nearly one-half an inch long, brown along the side, indistinctly 

 striped longitudinally with lighter. Dorsum light with mid-longi- 

 tudinal white or cream-colored band or stripe. Head a little flattened 

 above, light brown or chestnut. The two hind prolegs only full length, 

 the two pairs in front being short and unused, the front pair the short- 

 est. 



The larvae before the first moult is dirty ground color with a tinge 

 of green. Head large and bright chestnut color. 



May i8th, larva of C. luciana three-fourths of an inch long, tan or 

 light brown with a flattened head like that of cara having a lateral 

 black dash from the center above to the mouth. Inside of the dashes 

 the color is brighter than that of the body. Dorsum lighter than the 

 body color. A slight hump over the third pair of prolegs in a black 

 cross band or patch as in cara. The 8th dorsal pair of tubercles 

 stronger than the rest and black laterally. The mid-dorsal line quite 

 yellow. The larva described was nearly an inch long. Others of a sec- 

 ond lot but half an inch long and light brown. 



May 23rd. The larvae of luciana one and one-fourth to one and one- 

 half inches long, light brown. The head as in cara, flat and with lateral 

 black dash or streak and inner elongate ellipses, two in number sur- 

 rounded by narrow black. The true legs are a little lighter than the 

 body color. The hump over the third abdominal prolegs is low, deeper 

 brown with yellow crest. The tubercles are reddish brown. The last 



