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in saying that Asolla is useless in dealing with the local city 

 and the salt marsh problems. But there is a chance that in 

 some of our South Jersey peat bottom swamps the plant may 

 do good service and there I hope to be able to establish it. 

 It is also quite possible that in some of the more southern 

 states its range of usefulness may be greater. For New Jer- 

 sey I do not see any great or immediate advantage from the 

 plant; its habits are such, however, that in localities better 

 adapted to it, great benefit may result from its introduction. 



Notes on the Life Stages of Catocalae ; a Summer's 

 Record and Incidental Mention of 



Other Lepidoptera. 

 By R. R. ROWLEY and L. BERRY. 



As has been the case for the past two or three years there 

 was a warm spell in late March and early April and, as usual, 

 a promise of an early summer but everybody knows how de- 

 ceptive these promissory signs were. The middle of April 

 found us in the grip of a second winter and venturesome insect 

 life either perished or crawled back into its hole and awaited 

 a second invitation to come forth. Butterflies had been on 

 the wing and the early April warmth had nursed to life the 

 eggs of various moths that make our springtime and early 

 summer fauna. 



The record shows a fine imago of Papilio zolicaon from a 

 pupa sent to the senior author by Mr. E. A. Dodge of Santa 

 Cruz, California, March i8th; an imago of P. asterias, ex- 

 pupa, March 2Oth ; a P. philcnor on the 2Qth of the same 

 month and a fine male luna on the 3Oth. 



The eggs of Catocala ilia began hatching on the 3ist of 

 March and finished up on the ist of April. The buds of bin 

 oak were just bursting and the young "crawlers," unlike the 

 lively brood of April, 1909, settled down to their diet of foliage 

 and seemed contented and happy. What a delight to watch the 

 little fellows grow and the colder the weather out of doors, 



