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omits for want of authentication. Among the species so enumerated I 

 find the following : 



Callidryas cipris, Fab. 



Gotiepteryx incerula, Fab. 



Terias e/athea, Cram. 



Megistanis acheronta, Fab. - 



Aganisthos orion, Fab. 



Now I have specimens of all of these species which I purchased a few 

 years ago from Mr. Herman Strecker, the locality in which they were 

 taken being given by him as Texas. Now as it is of course inconceivable 

 that an Entomologist of Mr. Strecker's standing would attach a false lo- 

 cality to a specimen in order to sell it, I trust that Mr. Edwards will in- 

 clude these species in his next catalogue. 



H. H. Lyman, Montreal. 



LEPIDOPTEROUS LARVA. 



Dear Sir, — In response to the very interesting communication on 

 page 124 of volume xviii. of The Canadian Entomologist, I would 

 suggest to the two lady Entomologists that the larva is very probably that 

 of the Birch Dagger (Apatela viilpmam.) It is certainly, I think, that 

 of one of the Dagger Moths, and, if there is a variation in the color of the 

 tufts from published descriptions by Mr. Thaxter, perhaps it is not enough 

 to suspect a different species. I need not add that it gives me great 

 pleasure to see the interest which our ladies take in the study of Ento- 

 mology, nor how very much we owe to them already, as Mr. Edwards has 

 recently shown in the story of the discovery of the Aphid-feeding larva 

 of that interesting butterfly, Feniseca Tarqidnius. In my earliest papers 

 I referred to the important discoveries of women in a science which needs 

 delicate powers of observation and handling. From Madam Merian to 

 our own day, the list widens gloriously, and I often wish that the names 

 and addresses of all the lady workers in America could be got together. 

 When I come home again I mean to try and secure them for publication, 

 and I hope (as every one must away from home) that the day will be 

 soon. A. R. Grote, Bremen, Germany. 



