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reticulated lines, more or less granular and often broken. These eleva- 

 tions are nearly white. The truncate end of the egg has an outer elevated 

 ridge and an inner one, between which is a ring-like depression. The 

 central elevation is hollowed to form the micropyle, and the reticulations 

 radiate around it. 



Larva (from cast skin). Head round, the clypeus triangular, smooth, 

 with a few short hairs; white, with numerous black dots, here and there 

 partly confluent (like the wings of the moth), less thick on the lower part 

 of the head. Clypeus white, with two confluent black dots near its apex; 

 ocelli six, black; labrum and jaws brown; width about 2.2 mm. Anal 

 plate large, oblong, white, dotted with black, like the head, but the spots 

 more confluent. The body may have been white with black marks. 

 Spiracles black. 



Pupa (from empty skin) . Skin thin, so that it is misshapen after the exit 

 of the moth; apparently cylindrical, a littlle tapering on the abdomen with 

 rounded ends cremaster ; short, broad, with six spines, recurved at their 

 ends, the two posterior ones arising from slightly elevated conical bases. 

 Color apparently very pale brown, or perhaps nearly white, with a slight 

 bluish bloom over the surface. Length 16 mm ; width 4 mm. 



Cocoon. Spun among th narrow leaves of its food-plant; composed 

 entirely of silk; a. dense network, the strands thick, so that the cocoon 

 looks as if full of round holes. Inside of this is another slight netting, 

 obscuring the pupa from view. Shape oblong, rounded; color white, ir- 

 regularly stained with yellowish. Length 23 mm.; width 10 mm. 



The food-plant is Chilopsis saligna (Townsend). 

 From Las Cruces, N. M., sent by Mr. C. H. Tyler Townsend 

 (see " Psyche," vol. vi, page 258). 



WHILE traveling in Poland, Prof. Jaeger visited the highly accomplished 

 Countess Ragowska, at her country residence, when she exhibited her 

 fine, scientifically-arranged collection of butterflies and other insects, and 

 told him that she had personally instructed her children in botany, history 

 and geography by means of her entomological collection botany, from 

 the plants on which the various larvae feed; history, from the names, as 

 Menclans, Berenice, etc., given as specific names to the perfect insects; 

 and geography, from the native countries of the several specimens. From 

 the scientific names of insects, and the technical terms employed in their 

 study, quite a knowledge of Latin and Greek, and philosophy in general, 

 might also he gained. Cuzvati's Curious Facts. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS for January, 1^91, \vas mailed Dec. 28, 1893. 



