336 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



ccenia, Colias eurytheme, Pyrameis cardui and huntera, Danais 

 archippus. 



This Catocala record for 1914 is remarkable for the abundance 

 of viduata and lacrymosa, species usually rare; the over-abundance 

 of arnica, palceogama, retecta, neogama, and residua, always fairly 

 common; the re-appearance of serena not reported from here since 

 1901; the presence of subnata, never more than rare here; the 

 appearance in increased numbers of those splendid species, junctura, 

 nebulosa and dejecta; the falling off in the numbers of angusi and 

 its variety, lucetta, vidua, cava and amatrix; in the entire absence 

 of rohinsoni fairly common here, parta and cerogama, always rare. 



Of the earlier moths, ilia and polygama were common as usual, 

 grynea and insolahilis much rarer than usual, ultronia more abun- 

 dant than ever seen here before, clintoni and niinuta fairly common, 

 and both rare here of late years, innubens and its variety, scintil- 

 lans, common as usual; illecta always common, flebilis always rare, 

 habilis unusually numerous and epione in greater numbers than 

 ever known here before. No coccinata, Judith nor consors reported 

 in this year. Whitneyi was added to our fauna for the first time 

 this season. 



Mr. Ernst Schwarz and other St. Louis collectors report the 

 taking of titania; E. A. Dodge found luciana, somnus, parta and 

 meskei fairly common in Nebraska in late July and August. Mrs. 

 O. F. Hiser found coccinata common about Nevada, Iowa, in the 

 early summer; Perry Glick and A. L. Porter took hundreds of 

 Catocalae at Hamilton, Mo., in late July, and Miss Pattie Hutchin- 

 son gathered data for the study of the 1915 crop of Texas Catocalse. 



Eggs of Catocala coccinata began hatching on the 29th of April. 

 The young larvae were dark, cross-banded by smoky brown and 

 dirty green. Head black, small. Took readily to bur-oak leaves. 

 On May 3rd the larvae were one-fourth of an inch long, gray with 

 cross-bands of black. Head small, black. Larvae very active, like 

 those of ilia. On the 8th of May larvae over half an inch long, 

 brownish gray, indistinctly striped longitudinally. A line of small 

 mid-lateral black dots. True legs black, head small, dark colour. 

 A slight hump over the third pair of prolegs. 



May 17th — Larvae one and one-fourth inches long, light gray, 

 with yellowish tubercles in small dark basal patches. Both true 



