202 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, '13 



same size and color as that of the latter, being one and one- 

 half inches long, thick, dark brown, probably as dark as that 

 of geminatus. 



The first two imagoes, male and female, of ophthalmicus 

 emerged during the night of July 8-9 and both were deformed, 

 twenty-one and twenty-two days from burrowing or fifteen 

 to sixteen days from pupation. 



The deformed female ophthalmicus laid one hundred and 

 thirty-two eggs, a number of which were infertile. A part of 

 these eggs were sent to the junior author, who secured imagoes 

 from them, while the senior author signally failed to rear the 

 larvae of the rest. 



On July loth two splendid females of ophthalmicus emerged. 



Eggs of Sm. ophthalmicus hatched six days after they were 

 laid. In color the egg is pale yellow, a little flattened, ellipti- 

 cal and usually with a peripheral red streak halfway around. 



The deformed female Sm. ophthalmicus died the night after 

 she laid the one hundred and thirty-two eggs, or two days 

 after emergence. The deformed male companion to the fe- 

 male died four days after emergence. 



On the same day that the retecta and hiciana eggs hatched, 

 May 7th, the ova of Antherea pernyi gave larvae and, on the 

 afternoon of that day, those of Cricula andrei. These latter 

 two are Asiatic Saturnids, the first a second cousin of our own 

 splendid polyphemus and the other distantly related to io, 

 possessing his stinging qualities. 



On the 1 2th of June the first larva of Antherea pernyi began 

 to spin, thirty-six days after the first eggs hatched. On the 

 1 3th four larvae of Cricula andrei began their cocoons, thirty- 

 seven days from hatching. 



The larvae of Antherea pernyi and Cricula andrei continued 

 to cocoon till June 26th and those of Catocala vidua till the 

 29th. 



The first A. pernyi, a female and deformed, came from the 

 cocoon on the I4th of July. A male of that species emerged 

 at 4 o'clock P. M. the same day and these were all that the 

 fifteen or sixteen cocoons ever gave. After spinning, the lar- 

 vae died without pupating. Allowing six to eight days after 



