Oct., '08] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 39! 



Mr. Wasmuth exhibited specimens of Hyperchiria pamina, 

 Attacus jorulla and Eaclcs imperalis var. didyma; also two 

 fine variations of Philosamia cynthia, in which the lavender 

 posterior-transverse cross line was three times the ordinary 

 width and without a defined internal edge ; the angular anterior- 

 transverse line, also, was unusually broad, much further re- 

 moved from the base of the wing than ordinarily and connected 

 with the t. p. line, forming therewith a well-shaped K. In 

 consequence of the abnormal breadth of the t. p. line the discal 

 lunules were deeply inserted into it. Altogether, they were 

 widely remote from the normal type. These specimens were 

 bred from cocoons collected in the vicinity of Brooklyn. 



Mr. Kircher showed a box of Hymenopterous parasites bred 

 from chrysalids of Papilio tnrnus. From twenty-four pupae 

 collected at random, he obtained one perfect butterfly, one 

 crippled example, seventeen Psilomastcx e.resorius, and, from 

 two, a multitude of Chalcids. The remaining three pupae were 

 hard and dry. He also exhibited a box of Catocala, showing 

 the range of variation in relicta, aniatri.r, parta, itnijiiga, habilis 

 and basalis. 



Mr. Wormsbacher reported the following species of Lepi- 

 doptera from New Jersey : 



Acronycta modica, Guttenberg, June 3Oth. 



Sarrothripa lintnerana, Guttenberg, July 3Oth. 



Hadena diversicolor, Edge water Heights, September loth. 



En.voa velleripennis, Guttenberg, August 2Oth. 



Feltia v^olubilis, Guttenberg, May 25th. 



Mamestra congcrmana, Fort Lee, July 3Oth. 



Lithomia napae, Forest Hill, April 2Oth. 



Scopclosoma morrisoni, Forest Hill, April 4th. 



Polychrisia formosa, Edgewater, August 4th. 



llntolypc rolandi, Forest Ilill, April nth. 



Cossus ccnterensis, Guttenberg, June 3Oth. 



He also read a paper on the occurrence of Chlaeno gramma 

 jasmincarnm at Fort Lee, N. J., where in certain years the 

 species was collected in the egg and larvae stages in numbers, 

 but in other years was entirely absent. He believed that the 



