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the} 7 would be exposed to all the changes of winter weather," a single 

 male escaped in the warm room where I kept the chrysalids. I found the 

 specimen February 14th, but it had broken its wings, and I have no doubt 

 it escaped one or two days previously. I had no immediate expectation 

 of the chrysalids hatching, and hence did not examine the cocoons daily. 

 I think it worthy of record that this species has the peculiar smell char- 

 acteristic of cecropia. 



A. R. Grote, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Dear Sir, — 



I would like to refer to a statement of a correspondent (in July No. 

 of Entomologist) regarding the appearance in large numbers, in the 

 vicinity of this city, of Melilaea phaeton. Although collecting nearly 

 every day during the summer, I did not observe a single specimen of this 

 butterfly, nor have I seen one collected by any one else. M. tharos is one 

 of our most common butterflies ; perhaps this was the one intended. 



VY. H. Harrington, Ottawa, Ont. 



Dear Sir, — 



In the summer of 1876, while examining the paper bands placed in 

 our orchard to entrap the larvae of the Codling Moth ( Carpocapsa 

 pomonella Linn.), I found quite a number of their larvae and chrysalids 

 apparently eaten by some cannibal, which, after close watch, proved to be 

 Tenebrioides laticollis Horn. On several occasions I found them half way 

 into a fresh chrysalis of C. pomonella. 



This beetle, as well as T. castanea Mels., is very common here, and I 

 will try to encourage this useful taste of theirs. 



Charles D. Zimmerman, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Dear Sir, — 



Four specimens of Papilio cresphontes were captured in Fairfield Co., 

 Conn., last summer, about the 25th of July. Others were seen 



Geo. W. Peck. 



New York, March 10th, 1878. 



