226 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The tubercles are small and scarcely discernible except on anal 

 segments, where they are outlined with black. There is a dark stripe 

 along the spiracles, which are black. No filaments. Ventral surface 

 pink, with all the spots black and conspicuous. 



May 20th, spun up. Pupa : length, one and one-tenth inches ; 

 width, three-tenths inch. Gave imago June 19th. 



Catocala /uibi/is, Grt. 



Larva taken early in June, under loose bark on hickory. Food-plant, 

 hickory. 



June 1 6th. Length, two and two-tenths inches. Colour, greenish 

 black ; very smooth and glossy. Head wider than first segment, pale, 

 with slight brown markings, and with a broad, irregular, black stripe 

 from mouth to top of lobes. The dorsal stripe scarcely paler than the 

 general colour. Tubercles whitish, minute. No ridge or prominence 

 and no transverse band. No filaments. 



A very black stigmatal stripe, distinct to the extremities, forms a 

 sharp line of demarcation between the blackish colour above and the 

 greenish gray of the sub-stigmatal region. Ventral surface greenish white, 

 with dusky spots on the central segments only. Spun up June 22nd. 

 Gave imago July 12th, 1901. The larva? of habilis and Judith are very 

 similar in appearance and habits, but may be readily distinguished from 

 each other by the black stigmatal stripe and black marks on the head of 

 the former. Occasional larvse are much paler in general colour, but 

 retain these distinctive markings. 



A NEW VARIETY OF CICINDELA VULGARIS. 



BY EDWARD DOUBLEDAY HARRIS, NEW YORK. 



A undescribed variety of Cicindela vulgaris, Say, is reported from 

 the basin of the Rogue River, in S.-W. Oregon. Twenty specimens taken 

 during the month of April of this year, and closely representative of the 

 local tribe, present no differences except a slight one in shade of colour, 

 indicating, apparently, that the variety is well established and worthy of a 

 descriptive name. The elytra markings are identical with those generally 

 recognized as possessed by vulgaris proper. It is slightly narrower and 

 the upper surface more convex than the type. The colour is a dull 

 coppery green, the metallic hue being more apparent, as is usual in other 

 species, at the edges of the elytra. It seems to be a connecting link 

 between the type and variety vibex, Horn. Its habitat suggests the name 

 C. roguensis. 



