tHE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 187 



When these larvs are shaken off a leaf they let themselves down by 

 a silk thread. Subsequently I lost all these larvae by death. This species 

 varies almost as much as Leco/itei, but not so as to approach any other 

 form as far at least as I have seen, and I have examined over thirty 

 specimens. It is much smaller than Lecontei, and the underside is 

 strikingly different. 



It never varies in the direction of Militaris, and in some specimens 

 the white spots are very much reduced in size, as shown in fig. 9. As 

 Mr. Caulfield has pointed out,* Lecofitei varies in the direction of albinism 

 Cofifusa in the direction of melanism. 



In the Cambridge Museum there are four specimens of this species, 

 with a blank label attached by Prof. Agassiz. Three of these are from 

 Trenton, N. Y., which is the locality that the British Museum specimens 

 came from, and one is from Kanawha, West Virginia. 



Callimorpha suffusa, J B. Smith. 



Callimorpha Reversa, Stretch (in part), Ent. Amer. I., p. 104. 

 Callimorpha Suffusa, J. B. Smith, Ent. Amer. Ill,, p. 25. 



(Figure 11 ) 



This form has been so clearly described by Mr. Smith that it is not 

 necessary for me to add anything in the way of description to what he 

 has already published. I had myself intended to describe it as new, 

 giving it the name of one of the sisters of Clymene, on account of its 

 remarkably close resemblance, in everything but colour, to the species 

 named after that nymph, and I cannot help thinking that the name 

 chosen by Mr. Smith is by no means appropriate. 



This form is very distinct and varies very little, if I may judge 

 from a large series in the Cambridge Museum which were taken by 

 Mr. Boll at Dallas, Texas. Its distinctness from Contigua is evident, from 

 the fact that the markings are not only wholly dissimilar, but the 

 transverse brown line from inner angle reaches the costa about two-fifths 

 from the base, whereas in the latter the point of contact is about two- 

 fifths from the apex. 



Notwithstanding the total dissimilarity of these forms, Mr. Stretch 

 has evidently regarded them as one species, but there is one point in 

 which his diagnosis is unintelligible to me ; he says, " in Lecontei the 

 main transverse band starts from inner angle and goes to the apex, 



* i6th Report of Ent. Sec. Ont., page 38. 



