32 ' THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



In regard to the time of appearance of the species, veniata emerges 

 in the spring (March and April). I have never seen a specimen taken in 

 the autumn. It is by far the commoner of the two. Pometaj'ia is not so 

 common as vernaia, and the great majority of specimens emerge in the 

 fall or early winter, very rarely a few remaining over until the spring. The 

 spring specimens of the male are very strongly marked, of a dark smoky 

 brown, resembling somewhat in coloration the dark suffused variety of 

 Cleora pukhiaria, Minot. Although I have searched particularly for 



them, I have never been able to take but two males. The females seem 



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 to be more common in the spring, and do not differ from the fall speci- 

 mens. 



I have examined 150 male, 70 female veniata; 40 male, 60 female 

 pofiietaria, taken in the autumn, and 2 male, 10 ieuxdlt pomefaria, taken in 

 the spring. 



NOTES ON THE LARVA OF BOARMIA LARVARIA, Guenee. 



BY THE EDITOR. 



Several of the larvse of this species w^ere taken on the 24th of June ; 

 they were found feeding on willow and taken by beating the bushes over 

 an umbrella. 



Length one inch ; body cylindrical. 



Head medium-sized, flat, bilobed ; brownish grey in front, a little 

 darker at the sides, with a patch of brownish black on the summit of 

 each lobe, and a few short brownish hairs ; mandibles brownish black. 



Body above reddish brown, smooth and glossy, having here and there 

 a greenish tint, and with many fine longitudinal lines of a slightly darker 

 shade scarcely visible without a lens. On each segment, from fifth to 

 twelfth inclusive, there are two small black dots on each side of the dorsal 

 line, and on sixth segment a black tubercle with a small patch of white at 

 its base in front. On seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh segments 

 are similar black tubercles, but much smaller, with a whitish dot on the 

 anterior part of the base of each, most distinct on tenth and eleventh 



