Vol. XXlv] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 2O3 



beginning the cocoon before pupating, the chrysalis period of 

 pernyi is about twenty-four or twenty-five days. 



The first imagoes of Cricula andrei appeared on July loth, 

 twenty-seven days from the time they began spinning their 

 cocoons. 



The first imago of Cressonia juglandis from autumn chrysa- 

 lis emerged on the 29th of May. 



Eggs of Catocala relicta furnished by the junior author 

 hatched on the 23d of May. 



From captured females of Sm. e.vcaecatus and geminatus, 

 ova were laid respectively on the i8th and 22d of May and 

 the larvae hatched and in due time pupated, those of the for- 

 mer failing to a one to give imagoes in the summer and 

 autumn, while the geminatus chrysalids yielded moths in July. 



Eggs from a captured female polyphemus were laid May 



2Oth. 



May 25th, eggs of Actias Inna hatched. 



The first imago of Everyx versicolor from pupae received 

 from New Jersey emerged May 25th. 



June 1 5th, I found two larvae of Catocala neogama and one 

 of C. piatrix between shingles leaning against a small walnut 

 tree. All three of these were small, probably past second 

 moult. We have .referred to the shingle trap in a previous 

 paper on Catocala larvae. 



Mr. George Dulany took imagoes of Catocala cpione, ilia 

 and innubens in the woods on June 27th. 



On June 28th, the senior author, accompanied by Mr. Du- 

 lany, visited "Catocala Hollow" and took seven Catocala 

 epione, two polygama, two innubens and sixteen ilia, including 

 a white spotted one of the latter species. At the same time 

 we took a Ceratomia undulosa moth. 



The first larva of Smerinthus e.vcaccatns burrowed on July 

 ist. 



Imagoes of Sm. geminatus emerged on July 5th, twenty 

 days from burrowing and fourteen or fifteen days from pupa- 

 tion. 



On July 6th, took in the woods, in addition to species cap- 

 tured on the previous day, two beautiful specimens of Catncala 



