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inclined to refer to the above species. But two examples of Arctia Gen- 

 ura have, so far as I know, been taken before, one male now in Mr. 

 Strecker's cabinet, taken by myself in Gilpin county, Colorado, at about 

 8,500 feet elevation, and another female in my cabinet taken at the same 

 place by Miss Lillie Lake. If these be the same it shows a wide range 

 for the species in the high altitudes. Both specimens have three transverse 

 bands on the fore wings, arcuate, the first and second reaching the hind 

 margin, but the third at a point below the longitudinal stripe. Neither 

 has the basal half line, but one has a few pale scales on the costa the same 

 as the female from Colorado. The light marks on the fore wings of one 

 are yellow with a slight orange tint, the hind wings red with two rows of 

 small black spots and a narrow terminal border ; the other has the light 

 part of fore wings yellow, less orange tinted than the other, and the hind 

 wings yellow, but with the black the same as on the other. The abdomens 

 are wanting, but from their appearance I take them both to be males. It 

 is with some doubt that I refer these specimens to Genura, as there is no 

 indication of a fourth or basal half transverse line except the few pale 

 scales on the costa of the lighter one, and the spots on the hind wings of 

 these are smaller than in the $ of Genura, as figured by Mr. Strecker; but 

 the species of Arctia are generally so variable, and these come so near 

 the typical Genura, that I prefer to refer them to this species provisionally 

 to creating a new species. 



Aegeria Finorum, Behrens MS. 



Mr. Behrens sends me a colored drawing and a description of an in- 

 sect to which he gives the above name. It comes from Monterey, in Pitius 

 Insigjiis, from which larva? have been obtained. From these larvae he 

 bred one specimen from which the drawing was made. He says the larva 

 lives under the bark of the tree, feeding on the inner bark and perhaps 

 outer wood. From the wound made by the larva, there is quite a flow of 

 resin, the pupa being formed in the inner flakes of this resin. By detach- 

 ing such flakes of resin, five or six inches long, about as wide and more 

 than an inch in thickness, pupas and larvae have been discovered nicely 

 ensconced in rounded holes next to the bark. 



The wings are vitreous with golden scales scattered over the surface, 

 the veins dark ; legs dark and golden ; body steel blue with six golden 

 bands, the last the terminal tuft. 



Mr. Behrens did not state whether the specimen was a male or a 

 female, but I think from the drawing it was a male. »• 



