THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 303 



THE 1914 RECORD OF CATOCAL^. AND OTHER 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY R. R. ROWLEY AND L. BERRY, LOUISIANA, MO. 



This record has to do with Missouri and contiguous territory 

 only and is mainly the story of the best Catocala year since 1900. 



The season was not unlike that of 1913, being very hot and dry, 

 and both were duplicates of 1900 and 1901. The winter of 1913-14 

 was mild up to Christmas, dandelions blooming along the streets 

 of Louisiana to the 23rd of December. 



On the 28th of November, the day after Thanksgiving, the 

 senior author collected from black mustard seven larvae of Pieris 

 rapcE, one third of an inch long, securing the first pupa on the 30th 

 of the same month, and the first imago on the 15th of December. 

 This imago was fed on sweet liquids and lived ten days. 



Chrysalids of Smerinthus ophthalmicus, from larvae fed the 

 summer before, began giving moths April 18th and up to May 

 23rd, but only two perfect females out of sixteen were secured. 

 Most of the seven males were perfect. A fine male of this moth 

 that came from the chrysalis at 6 p.m. on the 3rd of May remained 

 motionless, in a box, till 2.30 the next morning, when it began a 

 noisy fluttering. An imago of Papilio philenor came from a 

 chrysalis on the 21st of April. 



Eggs of Catocala cerogama began hatching April 26th, those of 

 C. coccinata on the 29th, and of C. lacrymosa on the 8th of May. 

 A pair of Samia Columbia moths from cocoons, furnished the senior 

 author by Mrs. DeCoster of Buckfield, Maine, emerged April 27th. 



Ten half-grown larvae of Catocala illecta were collected from 

 honey locust sprouts, April 29th, others on the 1st and 3rd of May. 



The first Samia gloveri, a fine female, May 1st came from a 

 cocoon furnished by the junior author, but collected by Tom 

 Spaulding of Utah. 



The first larva of Catocala innubens was found on the 3rd of 

 May, and the first illecta began spinning on the 6th of the same 

 month. 



Eggs of several species of hickory-feeding Catocalae began 

 hatching May 5th. 



A Papilio troilus, ex-pupa, on the same date. 



Eggs of Catocala lacrymosa began hatching on the 8th of May, 



