May, '08] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



margin directly beneath discal mark is a prominent black dash. 

 Eup. palpata has long palpi, extra discal line always rounded 

 below costa never angulated in the series of 60 specimens which 

 I have compared and lacks the black line on inner margin and 

 is only two-thirds as large as hiteata. Now that we know all 

 the types which we did not before and found luteata labels in 

 Packard's handwriting on palpata types at Albany, I think we 

 have good grounds for knowing that Packard confused the 

 two species and that they should be listed as separate spe- 

 cies. This in no way effects the previous excellent articles 

 by Mr. Grossbeck and Dr. Taylor but confirms their statements 

 and settles the standing of palpata by finding the missing types 

 at Albany. It is strange the older authors did not know this 

 species as it seems to be very common, extending from north- 

 ern Maine to Pennsylvania and is not variable. 



Texas, Virginia and Maryland notes on the Catalpa 



Sphinx, Ceratomia catalpae Boisduval. 



BY A. ARSENE GIRAULT. 



The caterpillars of this species were very abundant and in- 

 jurious in 1904 to catalpa trees (Catalpa species) lining some 

 of the streets of the city of Paris, Texas. On certain streets 

 they became so abundant as to be very annoying to pedestrians. 

 During the season of 1904, I made tentative observations on 

 the insect and these form more or less of an outline of the 

 seasonal history of the species for that locality. Some addi- 

 tional -notes are also submitted from southwest Virginia, and 

 Annapolis, Maryland. 



At Paris, Texas, on the 28th of June, 1904, it was noted that 

 injury to the catalpa trees was noticeable and that the frass 

 from the caterpillars made a noise like dropping rain. On 

 the I3th of August, the caterpillars were so numerous on a 

 row of catalpa trees on one side of east Lamar Avenue, that 

 their frass covered the sidewalks beneath the infested trees for 

 several blocks, and the continual dropping of it sounded very 

 much like rain pattering on dead leaves in a forest; at this 

 time, the pattering noise was much more noticeable than in 



