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on the 3Oth, of twenty captured ilia, two had pure white 

 spots. Five innubens taken at this time were all of the variety 

 hinda. It was nearly a month after this before the normal 

 innubens appeared in any number. Furthermore, the hinda 

 were all much smaller than the later normal innubens. 



On July 3d in company with Geo. H. Hosenfelt and Walter 

 Brown of St. Louis, sixteen ilia, several of them uxor, 

 seven hinda and three worn polygama were taken. After 

 this date other ilia were captured but in poor condition. In 

 fact specimens were seen up to the ist of September. Here at 

 Louisiana, it has been the best ilia year since 1900. Two of 

 the specimens taken on the 3Oth of June had pale hind wings, 

 one of them being quite as yellow as neogama. 



The first illecta larva began spinning April I5th, a' whole 

 month in advance of parta larvae which began hatching on 

 the 1 6th and yet the first and only parta I ever saw taken here 

 (the night of June 29th, 1906, at sugar and by Mr. E. A. 

 Dodge) was in company at the bait with a somewhat weathered 

 illecta. It might be proper to state here that on the same even- 

 ing the first and only Catocala consors ever seen alive by the 

 senior author was taken in the little clump of small trees where 

 we were trapping. How it did rain that night and what a drench- 

 ing we all got! 



The eggs of parta and scintillans began hatching on April 

 1 6th. Larva of the former, one day old, is light brown with 

 dark chestnut head. On the 24th the caterpillars were one 

 third of an inch long, light (almost flesh color) with a very 

 light dorsum. Head, light chestnut. This was after the first 

 moult. Just before the moult the color is light rusty-brown. 

 April 26th the larva reddish brown along the side and light 

 middorsally. The red-brown along the sides is much darker 

 above the prolegs. Head light brown or chestnut. Prolegs 

 very dark at base, lighter outward. Head chestnut. 



Eggs of vidua and palaeogama hatched on April 3Oth. 

 When full grown, larvae of ilia hide beneath paper in the bot- 

 tom of the jar in day time, feeding at night, exactly the re- 



