THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 89 



" Hyphantria textor (Harris) made its appearance in this locality on 

 May loth, and from that date to the 13th I captured 53 ^ examples 

 and 10 ? ." 



" On June 17th the second brood appeared, and in three days I took 



41 S aiid 10 5 ." 



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" In the first brood every male had the black spots on the primaries, 

 from a single spot on each wing to almost covered, and in some examples 

 a spot on the secondaries. In the second brood all were bright, not an 

 example with the least trace of a mark, tJie females in both broods entirely 

 white.'" — Can. Ent., vol. XIII., p. 18. 



The italics in the above quotation are mine. 



Mr. Johnson asked these questions : " Has the first brood, or that 

 which remains over winter only, the black spots ? or does H. textor 

 alternate ?" 



As far as my knowledge extends, these questions have not been 

 answered. No one has come forward to say, " From eggs laid by H. 

 lextor I have raised a brood of H. pnnctatissima" or, vice versa, " From 

 eggs laid by H. punctatissinia I have raised a brood of H. textor." If I 

 am mistaken in this I shall be glad if someone will tell me when and 

 where and by whom the statement has been made. 



As regards our northern examples of textor : I have ten moths 

 (males and females) that I have raised at different times from fall web- 

 worms. Not one of them has any appearance of a spot at the base of 

 the second fork of the median nerve, such as is shown in "/"" of Riley's 

 " Fig. 86," in Packard's Forest Insects, and " a '' in " Fig. 87 " of the same 

 work. 



The dimensions of the moths that come from fall webworms have 

 been given as follows : 



In the New England States — One inch and a quarter to one inch- 

 and three-eighths— Harris, Ins. Inj. to Veg., p. 358. 



In Canada — One inch and a quarter — Saunders, Ins. Inj. to Fruits, 



P- 73- 



In the Southern States — One inch and one-tenth — Howaid, Far?ners^ 



Bulletin No. gg (by figures), pp. 24 and 26. 



We must accept the dimensions given by these authorities as reliable. 

 From them it appears that the Southern specimens of moths from fall web- 

 worms are smaller than the rest. What the very large moths, that have 



