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16. LitJiobius ho/zingeri Bollman. 



Localities. — Devil's I^ake, Wisconsin. Also reported from Winona, 

 Minn, (common). 



17. LitJiobius mhmesotce Bollman. 



Localities. — Haugen, Wisconsin. Reported from Ft. Snelling, Minn. 



18. LitJiobius trilobus Bollman. 

 Localities. — Reported from Bloomington and Salem, Indiana. 



19. LitJiobius exiguus Meinert. 



Localities. — Columbus, Neb.; Mongona, Boone, Marshalltown, Iowa ;. 

 Peoria, Dwight, Sterling, III; Janesville and Beloit, Wisconsin. 



20. LitJiobius tivius Chamberlin. 

 Localities. — Fremont and Omaha, Nebraska. 



The specimens present slight differences from typical tivius^ but 

 probably represent the same species. 



HABITS OF SMERINTHUS GEMLNATUS SAY, AND ^. 



CERISYL KIRBY. 



I have sometimes taken the above two species here, night after night,, 

 in about equal numbers, " playing" over water. The habit is a peculiar 

 one, which I have not noticed in any other species. I sometimes find 

 them singly, and sometimes five or six together, flying to and fro, close to 

 the water at open places between the willows, in a creek which runs 

 through my place, generally at places where the banks have been worn 

 down by stock crossing. Their motion is not regular, as in the Hepialidae,. 

 but varied and meandering, usually over an area of about 20 feet square 

 or less. So close do they fly to the water, that in striking at them with 

 the net I often splash in mud and water. Though they generally vary 

 their flight a few feet if a net is thrown close to them, they are not easily 

 driven away unless actually struck at and missed, and not always then. 

 The flight lasts about half or three-quarters of an hour, commencing in late 

 dusk, and lasting for some time. Often I have to use a lantern to see to 

 catch them. If a light is shown too close to them, they just move away a 

 {t\i feet, as they do from the net. All I have caught in this manner have 

 been males, but their behaviour has not suggested an assemblage to 

 females. Nor do they seem to be drinking, as I very rarely see one dip. 

 Mr. G. O. Day, of Duncans, B. C, tells me that his son mentions having, 

 noticed the habit in cerisyi. F. H. Wolley Dod, Millarville, Alberta. 



