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In alcohol the abdomen is not so brilliant, and most of those parts 

 of the legs covered by white hairs appear brown. The legs have a little 

 metallic colour. 



First legs 2^ mm. long, second 2^, third 3, fourth 4. Width of 

 abdomen, ly^ mm. Length of cephalothorax, 2 mm. 



Hab. — In the course of some investigations of the .codling moth, 

 this beautiful little spider was found not rarely hibernating under the 

 bark of apple trees in Mesilla, N. M. Mr. G. W. Peckham, to whom 

 specimens were sent, confirms it as new. /. Peckhamce is respectfully 

 dedicated to Mrs. Elizabeth G. Peckham, who, in conjunction with her 

 husband, has done such admirable work on the Attid spiders. The 

 present description will serve to fix the name ; Mr. and Mrs. Peckham 

 will no doubt figure the palpus, etc., when they come to revise the group. 



SPHINX LUSCITIOSA, Clem. 



On the morning of the 9th of June, 1897, Mr. Bice took from an 

 electric-light pole in London a fine male specimen of that rare moth. 

 Sphinx luscitiosa, Clem. 



All the writers upon the Sphingidse that I have consulted are agreed 

 in pronouncing it rare. Mr. Grote says : " This is probably our rarest 

 hawk moth of these kinds, proper to the Middle States." Dr. J. B. 

 Smith states that " the species is very rare." This is the first report of 

 its being taken in this section of the Province that I am aware of 



Prof Fernald, upon information received from the Rev. G. D. 

 Hulst, says that it had been bred near Newark, N. J., on willow. Dr. 

 Smith says : " The species has been frequently raised in the vicinity of 

 New York on willow." But whether willow is its natural food plant, or 

 that the larvae merely feed upon willow in preference to other plants 

 offered to them, is not stated. If willow proves to be its natural food 

 plant, it does seem decidedly strange that, with willow everywhere so 

 plentiful, luscitiosa should yet remain so very rare, and would lead one 

 to surmise that there must be some special influence at work that is the 

 cause of it. LTp to the time of Dr. Smith's writing (1888) no descrip- 

 tion of the larvse was obtainable. J. Alston Moffat. 

 London, Ont, 



In my last communication Ag?-otis catherifia is printed as a 

 separate species, whereas it ought to have appeared as a synonym of 

 Semiophora te>ieb7-ifera, Walk. J. A. M, 



Mailed September 2nd, 1897. 



