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thrown high in air, as in certain species of heterocerous larva;. The larva 

 then rests wholly on the abdominal legs. I have seen nothing like this 

 in any other Grapta larva. 



The species is not found in the district in which I now live, but it is 

 abundant in parts of New York and New England. In the Catskills it is 

 double brooded, the first brood of butterflies appearing in early summer, 

 the last in August, and these hybernate. 



NOTES ON THE LARVA OF AGROTIS LUBRICANS. 



BY G. H. FRENCH, CARBONDALE, ILL. 



Several times during the last of August and the fore part of September, 

 while working in my garden, I found a caterpillar that without the use of 

 the lens was green with a white stripe on each side. A more minute 

 description would be as follows : 



Length when full grown, 1.25 inches, the shape of the body very much 

 like that of A. saucia. Golor grass green, marked with white and black 

 as follows : A broad sub-stigmatal line of creamy white that is edged a 

 little above, towards the head, with black ; and below, in the middle of 

 each segment, by a little clouding of the same. On some there is a very 

 faint subdorsal line of greenish white, edged below with black, but on 

 most only the fine black line is perceptible. Dorsal line very narrow, 

 greenish white. Piliferous spots very small, faintly black, from each of 

 which arises a short hair. Stigmata edged with black. 



By a casual examination this is a grass green caterpillar with a white 

 stripe on each side, all the other marks being so' faint as to be seen only 

 upon closer inspection. The larva reared ceased feeding Sept. 6, and 

 went below the dirt in its box to transform, producing the imago Oct. 8. 



Besides the one reared, I took several specimens of the moth here in 

 July, and from this I judge the species to be at least two brooded, possibly 

 three, but that would depend upon the condition in which it hybernates. 



