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darker above than in the typical insect, while the primaries are variegated 

 by a ferruginous brown basal shading, continued narrowly along the 

 internal margin and connecting with a similarly coloured band, extending, 

 on its inner side, parallel with the external margin, but its outer edge 

 starts from the outer margin above the internal angle and runs obliquely 

 inward, so that the band ends in a point before reaching Ihe costa. . The 

 upper part of this band, as well as the outer part of the basal shading, 

 has a purplish tint. Fringe dark brown. 



I should judge this to be the ordinary ^ of L. inornata, in New 

 York. A single ^ , also raised from these larvae, fits the description 

 above referred to. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



ARZAMA OBLIQUATA. 



Dear Sir : In reply to Mr. Moffat and Mr. Kellicott, I wish to say 

 that both of these gentlemen are mistaken in saying that the larvae of 

 Arzaffia obliquata go to the shore in the fall of the year to stay over the 

 winter. On the 25th of November last my friend, Chas. P. Mackisney, 

 of Arlington, N. J., and I took a walk through the meadows at Arlington, 

 which cover from fifteen to twenty square miles. We did not find any 

 signs of Arzama except in one place about two hundred feet square, and 

 there in every reed we cut we found a larva, but we had to cut below the 

 surface of the water to get them. I went out to the meadows again to-day 

 {the 22nd of February) in order to get some larvae to send to Mr. Moffat 

 and Mr. Kellicott, and I found some about four hundred feet from the 

 shore, where I had to cut the ice to get to the bottom of the reeds. I got 

 four larvae and shall send them to these gentlemen in order that they may 

 see for themselves that I was right in my statements (C. E., xx., 119). I 

 also wish to state that if they require further evidence I should like them 

 to come to New Jersey, and I will take them to a place where they can 

 get a car load of cat-tail reeds with larvae in them throughout the whole 

 winter. I do not think that Dr. Riley is correct in saying that the female 

 lays her eggs in masses. I have always found them deposited singly, and 

 I do not think it likely that they would be laid otherwise, because it 

 would be impossible for a number of larvae to live in one reed. 



H. H. Brehme, Newark, New Jersey. 



