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stripe; underside of the body bluish green in the yellow green 

 larvae. Caudal horn pink, with a yellowish end terminated by a 

 black tip. The seven sphingial bands bright yellow and rather 

 broad on the yellow-green larvae, whitish on the blue-green 

 " worms." Spiracles brick-red with a surrounding ring of pale 

 red. The bands are shaded above by dark green and also by an 

 oblong, triangular pink patch on the yellow-green specimens; 

 eight creases to each body ring. Some of the larvae began to 

 burrow on the day of capture, and pupated in five or six days. 

 The burrow is several inches in depth. 



Hemaris diffinis. 



I have collected the larvae of this species on feverwort in June, 

 and later in the Summer on buckberry and snowberry. The 

 mature "worm" is nearly two inches long; side of body light 

 yellowish green with yellow granules; top of the body bluish 

 green with white granules; underside of the body dirty brown. 

 Top of second segment set with strong tooth-like yellow gran- 

 ules surrounding the head not unlike a yellow collar. Head 

 blue-green; feet banded with black and dirty white. Spiracles 

 black, set in an oval bluish spot with a white dot above and below 

 (the spiracle). Caudal horn slender, almost straight, black and 

 heavily granular, yellow at the side of the base. Young larva 

 whitish, with black horn and a very distinct yellow "collar." 

 Larva does not burrow, but spins a thin cocoon inside of leaves. 

 Pupa almost black. 



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ON A COLLECTION OF NEUROPTEROID INSECTS 

 FROM KANSAS. 



By NATHAN BANKS. 



Mr. W. A. Snow, of the University of Kansas, has kindly sent 

 me for determination the collection of these insects in that in- 

 stitution. Although the collection is small, yet it adds materially 

 to our knowledge of the distribution of these interesting insects, 

 as hardly any species were previously known from the State. 



PERLIDJE. 



Pteronarcys nobi/is Hag., i tf. Tennessee specimen. The basal 



This differs somewhat from Ha" border of the antenna- is narrow 



gen's description of his New York and without a process above. The 



specimen, but resembles more his angles of the prothorax sharp, the 



