98 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



ARCTIA ARGE, Drury. 



BV PROF. S. H. PEABODY, AMHERST, MASS. 



A moth taken by an evening lamp, May 25, 1873, on that night and' 

 the next day laid eggs which hatched June 14. The larvae fed freely on 

 the leaves of the common narrow-leaved plantain, Plantago lauceolata,. 

 The earlier moults were not observed with care ; the last two occurred 

 June 23 and July i. 



July 6, the larvae ceased feeding and next day began to spin their 

 cocoons in the breeding cage. July 26, imagos appeared, copulated and 

 laid eggs for a second brood. Other imagos appeared at about the same 

 time from without, showing the species to be double brooded. The cycle 

 of transformations occupied 42 days from the hatching, 62 from the- 

 laying of the ^gg. 



When the larvae ceased feeding they were i^ inches long, J^ inch in 

 diameter, tapering slightly to each end. 



Head small, black, marked in front with an impressed inverted A- Fore- 

 legs black ; pro-legs yellow with black fringe. 



Body dark brown ; a white dorsal stripe, and midway to spiracles a 

 white lateral stripe, shaded to orange on each segment ; spiracles black ;. 

 an orange spot above each, and a wavy white line beneath. Underneath 

 dirty gray ; on each segment twelve black tubercles, two on each dark 

 stripe, clothed with long white hairs. 



Tlie moth is quite abundant in this locality. 



EDITORIAL SUMMARY. 



The Butterflies of North America, /^y W. H. Eihvards — Second' 

 Series. — AVe are much pleased to be able to announce that the first part 

 of the second volume of this admirable work will be issued during the 

 present month, by Messrs. H. O. Houghton & Co., Riverside Press, 

 Cambridge, Mass., the succeeding parts to appear quarterly, with five 

 plates in each part. The illustrations which adorn the pages of Vol. i 

 are admirably truthful and life-like, and we have no doubt but that the 

 forthcoming volume will in this respect quite equal its predecessor. The 

 talented artists who were engaged upon the plates of the previous volume^. 



