216 THK CANADIA.N ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The ordinary specimens I have taken here measure from 3^^ to 33^ 

 inches across the expanded wing, but this variety only averages about 2 

 inches. The ground colour of the fore wings in the case of one female is 

 almost white, with markings similar in pattern to those of the large 

 variety, faintly outlined in greenish-brown ; the wings are also rather 

 more pointed than in the normal type. The hind wings are smoke- 

 coloured, as are also the thorax and abdomen. In another specimen, a 

 male, the fore wings are white with a slight shade of salmon colour, 

 without any markings whatever ; the hind wings are a shade or two 

 darker, and the thorax and abdomen correspond in colour to the wings 

 adjacent to them. 



The habits of both varieties are very similar. I have taken both 

 flying with their peculiar oscillating flight over low cherry scrub, or just 

 on the verge of higher patches. It is a very curious sight to see several 

 of these large moths performing their .oscillations for several minutes over 

 the same spot soon after sunset in the early summer — July ; the flight 

 being very rapid. 



Here I believe the larva to feed upon both the wild black and red 

 cherr)', for I have once or twice shaken the pupa out of the roots of 

 cherry scrub when digging some scrubby ground for a garden. I remem- 

 ber being much struck by the locomotive powers of one that I laid aside 

 for a few minutes, and which managed to wriggle a considerable distance, 

 comparatively, in a short space of time. 



NOTE ON EUTOLYPE ELECTILIS. 



BY A. RADCLIFFE GROTE, A.M., HILDESHEIM. 



Prof. Roland Thaxter has sent me a specimen of what may be E. 

 eieciilis, Morrison, and says: " The Eutolype is, as I suppose, electilis, and 

 is subject to very great variation as to the depth and disposition of the 

 darker shades and the clearness of the maculation, some being more or 

 less obliterate and others on the plan of Coelodasys biguttatus, var. 

 cinereofro7is." This is the first specimen / have had, and I can only sa>^ 

 it represents a species distinct from Rolandi or depilis. Unfortunately, 

 the abdomen is missing, and I cannot say if it is tufted. The black dash 

 described by Morrison is incomplete. I saw the type in the Tepper 

 collection, but had no opportunity of comparing it with the others. It 

 reminded me, on a very cursory examination, of muraiis, but as all the 

 species have the peculiar facies of the group, this comparison goes for 



