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Chinese Saturnia! He adds, that on looking into Fischer's work he finds 

 the habitat for the insect is " Eastern Siberia — banks of the Lena."] 



[18] 14. Carabus Ligatus, Knock. — Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 

 Length of body 7 J lines. 



Body black and glossy. Head oblong, impunctured, separated from the 

 neck by a transverse slender curving ridge forming anteriorly a deep sinus ; 

 ridge, defending the base of the antenna), conspicuous ; frontal impressions 

 long, not deep ; antennee not much longer than the prothorax : prothorax 

 nearly square, black slightly bronzed : sides lightly punctured, lateral margin 

 reflexed; it is faintly channelled, depressed transversely at the base, with a 

 punctured impression on each side : elytra bronzed, sub-depressed with 

 scarcely any sinus at the apex, lateral margin reflexed and carinated : each 

 elytrum with 13 or 14 rows of impressed punctures ; a triple series of oblong 

 discoidal elevations; interstices with numerous transverse linear impressions : 

 abdomen underneath smooth with a few minute punctures on the sides. 



The insect here described agrees with Germar's description of Knoch's C. 

 ligatus, but it is doubtful whether it be synonymous with C. carinatus of 

 DeJean. In most respects, indeed, it accords precisely with his description, 

 but the head is not slightly punctured, as he states his specimens to be. 



[Both C. ligatus and C. carinatus are included as races of 0. vinctus, 

 Weber, by Le Conte, in his List of Coleoptera, p. 3.] 



{To be continued ) 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Eggs of the Cecropia Moth. — I should like to call the attention of the 

 readers of the Canadian Entomologist to the fact, that Platysamia cecropia, 

 Grote (Attacus cecrojria, Linn.) always lays two eggs close together upon the 

 the food plant of its larva. When seeking for these larvae early in the season 

 you will usually find them both near to each other, and upon careful examin- 

 ation of the leaves in the vicinity you will find their eggs cemented to the 

 underside, sometimes however upon the upper. They are about -07 long, 

 oval, somewhat flattened on top. They are not as round as T. polyphemus or 

 A. luna. Colour yellowish white, with a light brown spot on top, and dis- 

 coloured more or less at the bottom and sides. They are usually laid side by 

 side. The larva gnaws a rough sided hole through the end and is nearly 

 black, growing lighter each moult until of the normal colour. The larva 

 when about to shed its skin deposits in a convenient place sufficient silk to 

 firmly attach its posterior prologs, and never should be disturbed when in this 

 position, because it depends upon this attachment to draw itself from the old 



