Il6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., 'lO 



strange that the larvae of amatrlv, cam, parta, concumbens, 

 piatrix, and neogama are so peculiarly subject to a deadly 

 dysentery, so much so that in ordinary years it is almost impos- 

 sible to secure imagoes from larvae fed in breeding jars, and 

 it is almost certain that the larvae in nature fare little better, at 

 least here in Missouri, considering the scarcity of the imagoes 

 and knowing that each female lays from 500 to 900 eggs. 



The junior author had better success with her larvae of con- 

 cunibcns, amatrix and parta, securing imagoes from all three. 



On the 3d of September, the senior author saw in the woods 

 a magnificent specimen of minis fully four inches expanse and 

 the following day captured a battered specimen, the first he 

 ever took on the wing. 



On the 9th of May, the senior author collected from honey 

 locust sprouts, twenty-five larvae of Catocala illecta, eight of 

 them being past fourth moult. At the same time, a single larva 

 of C. innubus, past second moult, was found. The first of these 

 illecta pupated on the 2ist and 23d of May and gave the first 

 imago on the Qth of June. The first warm days of April hatch 

 the illecta eggs and the little caterpillars struggle through bit- 

 ing frosts and even severe freezes but they escape many of the 

 parasitic foes and diseases that come with warm weather. 



Catocala minuta. Larvae of this little moth were found on 

 honey locust by the junior author. When fully grown, the 

 caterpillar is one and a fourth inches long, very dark, especially 

 about the head and from the 5th abdominal segment back. 

 Head almost black. The dorsal portion of the body lighter 

 than the side. Longitudinal bands of lighter and darker brown. 

 Pro-legs, body color. True legs, red-brown. A hump over 

 the 5th abdominal segment. Dorsal tubercles almost white. 

 The pair over the 8th abdominal segment the strongest and of 

 a red color. Under side with the black spots. The larva reared 

 by the senior author spun between leaves and the pupa was 

 brown with the usual prunescence. The larva pupated on the 

 1 3th of June and the chrysalis gave an imago on the 26th. The 

 junior author secured three imagoes from bred pupae. Since 

 1901 this Catocala has been scarce about Louisiana. 



