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faintly visible. Hind wings faded reddish orange with fuscous fringes, 

 with a black line slightly waved at their base. Fringes of fore wings 

 blackish with pale dots. Beneath both wings orange, fringes fuscous ; on 

 primaries a discal streak and a spot above on costa. Body dusky gray ; 

 abdominal hairs somewhat orange ; beneath paler, somewhat whitish. 

 Expanse 27 mil. Havilah, Cal, Mr. Hy. Edwards. This species has the 

 false appearance of an Aiinaphila. It is easily recognized, and seems 

 allied to fodinalis Led.; it is as large but very different in colors and 

 ornamentation. 



Crambtis iindatns, n. s. 



Allied to exsiccattis, but smaller, with the lines without the submedian 

 indentation. Pale whitish gray over light brown, a whitish shade from 

 base along the centre, the wing with scattered fuscous scales. The two 

 iuscous brown lines are very distinct, sub-parallel, near together, Avell 

 removed outwardly, jagged, angulated below costa, the inner line a little 

 more inwardly oblique and irregular below the cell than the outer. A 

 fine dark line at the base of fringes, which latter are interlined and 

 metallic at the tips. Hind wings pale with a subterminal line feebly 

 marked on both surfaces. Fore wings fuscous beneath with the lines 

 indicated. Expanse 21 mil. California, Mr. Hy. Edwards, No. 4454. 



Catocala grynea var. 



Mr. A. Conradi has collected near Bethlehem, Pa., a singular aber- 

 ration of this species in which the black bands on the under surface are 

 very broad and the secondaries above almost entirely black, except a yel- 

 low spot at base and two more beyond the middle of the wing. 



NOTES UPON CLIMATIC INFLUENCES ON SAMIA GLOVERI 

 OF UTAH AND S. CEANOTHI OF CALIFORNIA. 



BY A. H. MUNDT, FAIRBURY, ILL. 



The summer of 1879 was quite warm and dry in Utah as well as Cali- 

 fornia. This was very disastrous to the larvae of 6". Glover i, which, it is well 

 known, feed on the willows in Utah growing in or near swamps or near 

 creeks in canons. 



