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desired to ascertain whether it was so or whether my friend was right in 

 considering it Coleopterous — the determination being important in the 

 light of previous published statements by Mr. Meehan. I do not see 

 how the gratification of my desire would have in any way interfered with 

 Dr. Hagen's intended publication, and when, after sending him a Pro- 

 doxus larva and asking him to tell me whether his was identical or differ- 

 ent, no reply came, I was forced to seek the information elsewhere. Mr. 

 Meehan kindly sent me some infested stems from the same lot as those 

 sent to Dr. Hagen, and from them I at once recognized Prodoxus, and 

 from them even bred the moths, which did not have the characters of 

 Pronuba. C. V. Riley. 



Washington, D. C, Aug. 16, 1880. 



P. S. — As a post script to what I have previously written regarding 

 Dr. Hagen's note on Pronuba yuccasella, I wish to say that upon meeting 

 him he at once admitted his error, and I leave him to explain it. 



Boston, Mass., Aug. 23, 1880. C. V. R. 



I have to note the capture of Hadena confederata Gr. on Staten Island 

 in October. This species I have originally described from Louisiana and 

 Texas. My friend, Mr. Thaxter, has taken it also at the same time in 

 Cambridge, Mass. It is a Southern form, coming northward in the fall. 

 Mr. Thaxter caught it in Jamaica, JN. S. Mr. Thaxter has also bred the 

 Spanish Moth, Euthisanotia timais, in Florida. A. R. Grote. 



During August I had a three weeks' hunt about Ridgeway, and a finer 

 place for the purpose I have never been in. I brought home one Catocala 

 new to me, small size. One day I saw a little beauty sitting on a tree, 

 which I took for a Catocala. but it is Ephesia elonympha, a perfect gem in 

 its way. We came across three butterflies I never saw alive before : 

 Papilio marcellus, P. ph ilenor and Junonia coenia. We took but one of 

 each ; also one specimen of crespliontes. Some fine flies taken on the 

 lake shore ; beautiful specimens of the banded Midas, and a large red one 

 I had not seen before. 



The sand seemed full of the larvae of the Ant Lion, but it was too 

 early for the mature insect. I took one specimen of Myrmelion abdomin- 

 alis at Long Point, and one of a species I don't know. 



Hamilton, Aug. 10, 1880. J. Alston Moffat. 



