172 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll 



fras bushes and the sumach, the hickories and the buck bushes 

 were too alluring. We filled all our cans, boxes and paper 

 bags with larvae. The hickories gave us luna, juglandis and 

 excaecatus ; the persimmons, regalis and lima, and the sassa- 

 fras, imperial/is, troilus and crispata. The buck bushes were 

 alive with the larvae of diffinis. 



The yield was four "hickory horned devils," four gigantic 

 imperialis, eighteen lunae, two juglandis, one excaecatus, thirty 

 troilus, fifty diffinis, five Lagoa crispata, and numbers of other 



"worms." 



Elated with our success we spent the next day in the woods, 

 but our selection of locality was unfortunate and we did 

 poorly. We still found the larvae of troilus, diffinis and luna 

 abundant, but the larger caterpillars were nearly wanting. We 

 took two imperialis and eight juglandis, but we wandered over 

 much territory. We were not herpetologizing, but we killed 

 two gigantic copperheads on the hillside and the next day an 

 equally gigantic spreadhead. 



Throughout the days of late August we collected regalis 

 larvae, and all through September, even to the loth of Octo- 

 ber, we gathered up imperialis "worms." 



Of the hawk moths the most abundant were modesta, 

 diffinis, excaecatus and geminatus. Hylacus was not so abund- 

 ant as usual, pandorus and myron larvae badly parasitized. At 

 light, drupiferarum, Carolina, cclcus, pandorus and one myops, 

 a rare moth here. Out of twelve eggs and twenty larvae of 

 Cressonia juglandis collected during the summer, three moths 

 and three chrysalids were obtained. 



These larvae suffer terribly from the microgasters, and it is 

 no wonder the species is so rare. Even in the absence of para- 

 sites, the larvae of juglandis seem delicate, for the author col- 

 lected a number of fertile ova and freshly hatched caterpil- 

 lars in early August, and every "worm" of them died before 

 the third moult. 



Of the few geminatus larvae picked up in September, all, 

 save two, "broke out with parasitic cocoons" and the two later 

 died, one even after pupation. 



