THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 369 



REV. G. D. HULST. 



We deeply regret to announce the death of the Rev. George Duryea 

 Hulst, Ph. I)., which took place suddenly on Monday, Nov. 5th, at his 

 residence, i 5 Hinirod street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr. Hulst was in his fifty- 

 fourth year, and had been pastor of the South Bushwick Reformed Church 

 for over thirty years. In the entomological world he was widely known 

 from his researches in the Lepidoptera, and especially for his work in the 

 Geometridae, in which family he was recognized as an authority. He was 

 a frequent contributor to the pages of this magazine, and also published 

 elsewhere many elaborate papers on his special department of study. His 

 removal from among us, when in the prime of life, and with apparently 

 many years of useful work before him, will be keenly regretted by 

 systematic entomologists everywhere. 



THE LIFE-HISTORY OF ARCTTA PHALERATA, HARR. 



UY ARTHUR GIBSON, ASSISTANT, DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY, CENTRAL 



EXPERIMENTAL P'ARM, OTTAWA. 



On the 1 8th June, 1900, Mr. C. T. Hills, of Chicago, was kind 

 enough to send me a batch of about 79 eggs of Arctia phalerata, Harr. 

 The parent moth was captured on the 12th June, and enclosed in a box 

 over night ; on the next day, the 13th, the eggs were laid. 



Egg. — .75 mm. in width, semi-ovoid, about as high as wide, shiny, 

 smooth, creamy-white, concave at base. 



The eggs hatched on the 20th and 21st of June. Duration of egg 

 stage 7 or 8 days. 



Stage I. — Length 2 mm. General colour dirty cream. Head .3 mm. 

 wide, bilobed, shiny, brownish-black, and bearing sparse slender hairs. 

 On each segment is a transverse row of black tubercles, which appear to 

 occur almost in a line in the middle of the segments. These tubercles 

 bear long black and silvery hairs, and are situated in a light brownish 

 field, which encircles each tubercle. On segments 5 to 12, inclusive, 

 slightly nearer to centre of dorsum, and anterior to larger dorsal tubercles, 

 are two smaller tubercles, which also bear one or two hairs. Thoracic 

 feet and prolegs concolorous. 



On the 23rd June the larvae were swollen, and on the 24th they 

 passed the first moult. 



