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base. The bristles on segments 2, 3 and 4 slope forward, on the rest of 

 the body backward. All bristles much depressed, almost horizontal to 

 the body. Substigmatal fold pale. Ventral surface mottled with purple. 

 Spiracles on first three segments large and black, very conspicuous, 

 all legs concolorous with body. 



"The larva was very slugglish and fed but little on dead birch 

 leaves and fresh dandelion leaves. The cocoon was very slight, 

 a few strands of coarse silk fastening a leaf rolled round the larva. 

 Change to pupa on June 16." 



I have hunted up all the references accessible to me in regard 

 to this species, but have failed to find anything recorded in reference 

 to its preparatory stages. 



Of the allied species Philometra serraticomis, Grote, referred by 

 Dr. J. B. Smith as a synonym of P. eumelusalis, Walk., Henry 

 Edwards records in his work on the "Described Transformations of 

 North American Lepidoptera," apparently on the authority of French, 

 that the larva feeds on the roots of grasses ; and of Epizeuxis cemula, 

 Hubn., he gives Phlox as the food-plant. 



I have been unable to find in Dr. J. B. Smith's "Revision of the 

 Deltoid Moths" any reference to the food of any of the genera being 

 rotten or decaying vegetation, but Mr. A. F. Winn has directed my 

 attention to a paper by the late Dr. C. V. Riley in Insect Life, IV, 108, 

 on "A New Herbarium Pest." in which a new species and genus are de- 

 scribed, Carphoxera ptelearia, Riley (referred in Dyar's Catalogue to the 

 genus Eois, Hubner), a small geometer which preys upon dried plants. 

 In this paper the author says that a number of genera of Deltoids are 

 known to feed on dead leaves, mentioning Epizeuxis cemula as feeding on 

 the dead leaves of hickory, Palthis asopialis, Guen., and Zanchgnatha 

 minima/is, Grote, on dead leaves of oak. I shall be thankful for any 

 further information in regard to this matter, and especially for references 

 to any published records of similar observations. 



PACHYBRACHYS PROXIMUS.— A CORRECTION. 

 By some strange inadvertence I have described two species of 

 Pachybrachys under the same name of proximus in the last number of 

 the Canadian Entomologist, pages 313 and 320. The name proximus 

 should be retained for the species described on page 313.. and con/usus 

 applied to that on page 320. — Fred. C. Bowditch. 



