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the footnote, on page 103, the statement that Mr. I. English's 

 results were different from his. At the time of writing I have 

 not seen Mr. English's article in - Entomologische Zeitschrift, 

 September 25, 1909, Stuttgart, but under the circumstances 

 these results were only what was to be expected as the life 

 history there given is, "as pointed out by Dr. Jordan, that of 

 this new species, Cricula andrci (Jordan), Novitates Zoolog- 

 ical, December, 1909: "On the species of Cricula, a genus of 

 Saturnidae." In the course of my working out the life his- 

 tories of Saturnidae, in which, as some of my American 

 friends know, I have' been engaged intermittently for some 

 years, I have been fortunate enough to rear this new species, 

 contemporaneously as it appears with Mons. E. Andre in 

 France, after whom the species was named, and Mr. I. Eng- 

 lish. I had been- receiving cocoons of C. trifcnestrata from 

 three sources in India, having in all four to five hundred 

 cocoons from North Assam, Bangalore and Calcutta, and 

 could not determine the exact locality, but know it was not 

 Bangalore and feel sure it was North Assam. A few of these 

 cocoons were solitary, of a darker color than the usual golden 

 yellows of trifcnestrata, and a few commenced to emerge in 

 February, 1909, one female being a lovely cherry red with 

 heliotrope suffusions over the borders of the wings.* It, how- 

 ever, was not until I was definitely able to know that these 

 varieties were emerging from the darker cocoons that I sep- 

 arated them and got two pairings later on in May. Knowing 

 that trifcnestrata was a very variable insect, I thought it 

 merely a richly colored large variety, and although the larvae 

 were green with black heads I imagined they would change 

 to black with red bands as they grew up ; but as soon as I 

 sent one or two with their parents to Dr. Jordan he pro- 

 nounced it a new species and named it after Mons. Andre 

 who had also sent him a fine blown larva a little previously. 

 Dr. Jordan described the life history as far as known and 

 which I am pleased to supplement with the other stages. 



* This I now find is the usuaV color of 9 Andrei, the $ being 

 tawny gold. 



