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foe to be guarded against. On the approach of winter the care oi Jutta 

 became perplexing — the more so as I was about to leave for England. I at 

 length resolved to place the case, near a window, in a outer passage lead- 

 ing to a dairy. There it would be, I thought, sufficiently removed from 

 the warmth of the house, and would escape the crushing weight of the 

 winter's snow. I left the larvse supplied abundantly with sedge growing 

 in well soaked sphagnum. On my return in February only six of the 

 larvae remained. They were torpid, but fresh and plump. A mild day 

 came, and one of the larvae revived ; but the mild day was followed by a 

 bitter night, and the adventurous larva perished. When the others began 

 to revive I moved the cage into a room where the temperature 

 could be better regulated. Of the remaining larvae one afterwards died 

 and four went into chrysalis. The chrysalids were naked, unattached, 

 and lay on the surflice, or just below the surface of the sphagnum. I sent 

 one of them to Mr. W. H. Edwards, and one I preserved as a specimen. 

 The other two produced butterflies. Tiie first of these appeared on the 

 31st of May, and was crippled. I thought that perhaps I had kept the 

 chrysalis too dry, and I sprinkled the one remaining with fresh water. 

 Next day a beautiful and fully developed female Jutta presented itself, 

 crowning my efforts with success. It was as large as the largest 

 specimens I had taken in a state of nature. The only difference I could 

 perceive — and it was hardly perceptible — was that the insect raised in 

 captivity was of a somewhat paler brown than the others. 



ONE WORD MORE ABOUT RILEYA. 



BY L. O. HOWARD, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



(See Mr. Ashmead's communication in December Can. Ent.) 



Without entering further into the discussion of priority, beyond stating 

 that Mr. Ashmead is wrong in his points (i), that my original communi- 

 cation was read after the publication of his synoptical table, (it was read 

 two days before the receipt of the number of Ento?nologica Americana, in 

 which the table was published), and (2), that his full description was 

 .published before mine ; (mine was published nine days before the receipt 

 of the Kansas bulletin). I wish to say just a word in reply to his supposi- 



