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sandy ridge, which is covered with hemlock, beech and chestnut trees, and 

 was formerly, no doubt, a reef when the lake was more extended. An 

 outer sand ridge, parallel with ours, runs along the beach and up the 

 lake, while between the two a small creek finds its way into the larger 

 waters. Last night, at " sugar," about the camp, I took specimens of 

 Habrosyne scripta, Acron. nodwaga, Charandra deridens, Pyrrhia exp7 imens, 

 Zale horrida and Homoptej'a duplicata. I think Zalc may be distinguished 

 by its brown, discolorous and exaggerated thoracic tufts. I was much 

 pleased to see many Sphinges come to the bait. I took Thy feus Ahbotii, 

 Ellibia versicolor, Everyx choerilus and Sphinx Kalmice. The flight of 

 versicolor is more like that of Kahnice than choerilus ; the latter sits close 

 to the bait, the tongue being apparently shorter than in versicolor. The 

 specimen of the latter which I captured (I saw a second) is fresh, and 

 in looking at it one is reminded of the saying of Marcus Aurelius : "That 

 which is beautiful is beautiful in itself; the praise of man adds nothing to 

 its quality." The Sphinges came to the bait till 9 : 30 o'clock — it being 

 very dark and cloudy ; Kalmim was the earliest to appear. The species 

 of Lithophane and Scopelosoma are now apparently over. Heliophila 

 Harveyi and phragmitidicola are common at sugar, as well as Hadena 

 finiiima, and Eustrotia apicosa and carneola. A. R. Grote. 



Coalburgh, W. Va., 15th May, 1877. 

 In my recent Catalogue I named a genus of Hesperia on behalf of 

 Mr. Butler, and called it Linineria. It so happens that Mr. Butler had 

 given this name to one of the genera of the Sphingidge in his late 

 " Revision " of that family, a fact which I only discovered a few weeks 

 ago, and after the Catalogue was published. Mr. Butler proposes the 

 name Systasea for the genus of Hesperid^e spoken of, which therefore 

 should stand Systasea Butl. W. H. Edwards. 



EFFECT OF HOT WEATHER UPON THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SPHINXES. 



The 28th of last July I found feeding on the Virginia Creeper two 

 larvae of the Satellite Sphinx ( Philampelus satellitia). One was nearly 

 full grown, and at the end of three days stopped feeding and entered the 

 ground. August ist passed through its transformations, and came out 

 the loth of September. It proved to be a very fine female of large size, 

 with colors unusually bright. The above would seem to show that this 

 species in a warm climate would become double brooded. 



Robert Bunker, Rochester, N. Y. 



