160 THE CANADIAN KNTOxMOLdOlST, 



logue. In Loew's Ti-ypctiiuc (in fol.) j). 45. it is Rha\:;i>lctis ccrasi : iii 

 Scliiner. Heriiia froiidescentiic, I-. 



The larva and pupa are not different from those of Ti-ypcta { Spilo- 

 grapha) ccrasi. received l)y Prof. Rosenhaiier from P^urope. Of court?e 

 this can not be an evidence in a family, where all larvae and pupae are so 

 similar one to the other. I will try to raise them, but as Rosen, states 

 in his Monograph that the imago appears eleven months later, we have to 

 wait till June, 1884. for the Hy. Nevertheless I like to draw attention to 

 the fact. Loew states that the larva lives in cherries, in lAUiiccra .\ylos- 

 tcum and other Loiicerce, and in Bcrberis rith^aris. after Frauenteld. 

 Rosenhauer found it in Loniccra farfariai, and this shrub is also present 

 in my garden for 13 years, always much eaten by a Tenthrid larva, but 

 not as far as I know, by a Trypeta. I do not find mentioned any lar\a in 

 the fruit of the cherry in the American literature. 



Cambridge, Mass., July 29. 1883. Dr. H. A. Ha(;i.n. 



Dear Sir : 1 enclose some beetles sent me from a house at Cold 

 Spring, on the Hudson River, New York. I am unable to answer the 

 question put to me as to what they are. Vl\ friend says : •' The house 

 here is full of them : we kill them l)y thousands with insect powder. 'I'hey 

 are found behind the paper on engravings and e\erywhere, thousands 

 being under the carpets, but the carpets are not cut." My only excuse 

 for troul)ling you is as a subscriber of some years to your excellent Ento- 

 mologist. G. H. \"an Wagenen. 



Rye. Westchester Co.. New \'ork. 



[The insects have been submitted to Dr. (i. H. Horn, of Philadelphia, 

 for determination, who says they are specimens of Galcriica xaiitlio- 

 inehxciue. — Ed. C. f^..] 



I'l.AXoSA EARRI.S. 



East season 1 found four cocoons of this interesting species on the 

 white pine, and this season twelve more were found. The females agree 

 well in color with that figured by ])r. Fitch, l)ut the males are much darker. 

 Some of them are wholly black, except a few long, white hairs on the sides 

 of the thorax. I am not aware that this species has been found on i)ine 

 before. Rober'i Bunker. 



(Primed Sepl. ist, iS8j.) 



