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are very dark brown, almost black, for three or four segments. No dorsal 

 hump. Lateral set?c very short. Head rounded, mottled gray and brown with 

 a short, lateral black dash. Tubercles whitish. Ventral surface pale with 

 greenish tinge except mid-ventrally where the black spots are set in pink patches, 

 A wavy, longitudinal line or narrow band along the line of lateral seta? is dark 

 or quite black. 



Taken under the bark of Carya alba (shag-bark hickory). Spun cocoon 

 June 11th, and gave imago July loth. 



CatocaJa lachrymosa. — Full-grow^n larva 2'/2 inches long, very dark brown 

 with a lighter cross-band (irregular) over the first abdominal segment, and a 

 less pronounced one behind the fourth pair of pro-legs. No dorsal hump. 

 Head light gray mottled w^ith darker markings. True and pro-legs dark. 

 Tubercles very dark reddish brown. Lateral fringe of rather long bristles. 

 Head round and full. Ventral surface pinkish, with the characteristic black 

 spots. Larva taken under the bark of Carya alba (shag-bark hickory). Began 

 spinning cocoon June 29th, and gave imago August 2nd. 



Catocala obsciira. — Larva 2'/2 inches long, leaden gray, with only dash lines 

 No hump, no lateral row^ of setae. Head round and streaked as in other hickory 

 larvae. Tubercles pale yellow or quite white, giving the body a speckled ap- 

 pearance. Ventral side of body white with tinge of green. Central row of 

 black spots. Larva taken in hickory bark but fed through to maturity on 

 pecan {Carya olivceformis). 



Larva cocooned July 8th, and gave moth August 7th. The imago has 

 white fringe on back wing. 



THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



The Fifty- sixth Annual Meeting of the Society will be held at Ottawa, 

 Ont., on Thursday and Friday, the 6th and 7th of November. All the sessions 

 will be held in the Carnegie Library, (^Metcalfe Street). On the evening of 

 November 7th the members and visitors \vi\\ be the guests of the Officers of the 

 Entomological Branch of the Dominion Department of Agriculture, at a smoker, 

 the place of meeting to be announced later. 



Members or visitors having papers which they wish to present will please 

 send the title of the same to the Local Secretary not later than October 18th, 

 and state time required for presentation. It is requested that no paper exceed 

 20 minutes in length. If a lantern is required this fact should also be stated. 



L. Caesar, President, O.A.C., Guelph; A. W. Baker, Secretary, O.A.C, 

 Guelph, Arthur Gibson, Local Secretary, Entomological Branch, Dept. Agric, 

 Ottawa . 



Charles W. Leng, Secretary of the New York Entomological Society and 

 Research Associate in the American Museum of Natural History, has been ap- 

 pointed Director of the Museum of the Staten Island Institute of Arts and 

 Sciences. Mr. Leng has been interested in the natural history of Staten Island, 

 where he was born and lives, since boyhood. Entomologists and other natural- 

 ists, visiting New York City, can reach the Museum of the Institute by a 

 pleasant half hour's sail across the bay on the Staten Island ferry, and thus 

 inspect the collections in all orders that have been accumulated. 



