May, '08] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 23! 



Callosamia angulifera Wlk., n. var. Carolina. 



BY FRANK MORTON JONES, Wilmington, Del. 



$ . Ground color of wings above, black, obscured basally with olive- 

 brown hairs and more or less heavily overlaid with golden-brown scales. 

 Discal mark, 1 on primaries, yellow and prominent ; on secondaries, absent 

 or very faintly indicated. Transverse posterior line yellow, clearly de- 

 fined interiorly, outwardly fading into a broad, powdery golden-brown 

 area. Secondaries beneath with no light line ; purplish-red, with no 

 strongly-contrasting areas. 



5 . Very similar to typical angulifera above ; the discal marks yellow, 

 almost obsolete on secondaries. Beneath, the black transverse lines of 

 angulifera are replaced with purplish-red, which also darkens the area 

 beyond to as dark a tone as the remainder of the wing. 



Described from fourteen males and ten females from Berke- 

 ley County, South Carolina. 



The Carpenter Mud Wasp (Monobia quadridens). 

 BY M. TANDY, Dallas City, 111. 



During the summer of 1907 it was my g-ood fortune to come 

 in possession of a very interesting and rare specimen of the 

 nest containing the live pupae of the Carpenter Mud Wasp. 



Usually this insect selects some partly decayed board in 

 which to excavate its tunnel for a nest, which is usually several 

 inches in depth, and partitioned off into cells about one inch 

 each, in which are stored spiders; and one egg deposited in 

 each cell. 



Now this particular insect, the subject of this sketch, seemed 

 to be of different mind from the rest of its kind, as is ex- 

 hibited in its selection of new and partly manufactured mater- 

 ial for its domicile. 



Perhaps it had caught the -spirit of the age of progress and 

 invention, and responded to some mysterious and inexplicable 

 desire to better its condition, to provide a newer if not more 

 fashionable home, or it never would have invaded a sash and 

 door' factory to provide for the same, and select the best ot 

 finishing lumber a block of cypress, which had been discarded 

 in the manufacture of window frames dressed on both sides 

 and with a groove in the under side, as it reposed upon a lum- 

 ber pile. On its upper side were six small partly decayed 



