88 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



" Whether this be the cunea of Mr. Drury or ?iot, it deserves a more 

 expressive, or rather a less erroneous, name. The character above given 

 applies to the male only, the female being entirely white^^ 



Now. Dr. Dyar tells us that "Walker knew cunea, Drury" (Can. 

 Ent., v. XXXI., p. 155), very well. What does Walker say about the 

 female of the species? This is what he says : ''Female — Hind wings 

 with some brozvn sub marginal spots." 



There is no warrant whatever for speaking of an immaculate cunea, 

 Drury — whether male or female. Drury neither figured nor described 

 such an insect. 



I hope it will be understood that when I have spoken of cunea I 

 have meant Drury's cunea — not the insects that of late have been 

 erroneously called by that name. When I have spoken of moths from 

 fall webworms, I have designated them as such, or I have used the term 

 given by Harris for the northern immaculate insect, and the term given 

 by Smith and Abbot for the southern spotted insect. 



Hyphantria textor, Harris, and Phalcena punctatissima, S. and A., 

 are supposed to be (though Harris had no idea that they were) seasonal 

 varieties of one and the same species of moth — a moth that comes from 

 the fall webworm. 



In Canada we have only one brood of this species in the year, but 

 southward there are two generations of it. Thus Dr. Wm. Saunders 

 writes : 



" In the northern United States and Canada there is only one brood 

 of this insect in the season, but in the south it is frequently double- 

 brooded, the first brood of the larvfe appearing in June, the second in 

 August." — Insects Injuriotis to Fruits, p. 73. 



And Dr. L. O. Howard writes : 



" In the District of Columbia and north to New York City there are 

 two generations annually." * * * -st * * * 



"The caterpillars of the second generation begin to make their 

 appearance in force in August." — Farmers' Bulletin No. gg, p. 20. 



It is, I presume, the moths from this second generation that Dr. 

 Ottolengui refers to in his " Contribution, etc.," in the December number 

 of the Canadian Entomologist, pp. 358-9. 



With his remarks, as to the profuse spottedness of these early moths, 

 agree, in part, the words of Mr. James S. Johnson, who wrote from Frank- 

 ford, Pennsylvania, in August, 1880, and said : 



