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4, 2nd hundert, where the text reads thus : " From Bahia* ; Es ist 

 bios, gewagt diese Gattung fiir eine Geometra ampla und Erastria abstracta 

 zu nehmen," etc., which shows that this eminent author has even been in 

 doubt where to place this specimen, as will be seen in the text accom- 

 panying the figure, and seems inclined to refer it to the Geometridse. 



Mr. Grote, in his last list, 1882, Heterocera of the United States, 

 mentioned it and placed it as a separate Group after Hexeris, where I 

 think it does not rightfully belong. It is entirely different in shape of 

 head, thorax, abdomen and wings, from its neighbors ; and if a Noctuid, 

 should be last, and just before Eupethecia. It also strongly reminds, but 

 in shape and antennse only, of Aviphidasys mpidaria Gr., or cognataria 

 Guen. Neither the genus nor the specimen is mentioned in the Brooklyn 

 List. On Hiibner's plate, in his vol. 4, Mr. Grote wrote under the figure 

 thus : " Wisconsin (Hinsdale), Racine College, Wis.," without any further 

 remarks, whether B. vulneraria has been found there, or only been seen 

 by him in the collection of said College. 



ON THE PROBABLE FOOD OF THE LARVA OF SCENOPINUS. 



BY DR. H. A. HAGEN, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



Prof. F. W. Putnam communicated to me a larva of Scenopinus found 

 in his house under a carpet. It belongs very probably to Sc pallipes 

 Say, which was reared by Mr. Sanborn out of larva found under a carpet. 

 The larva is figured by Prof. A. S. Packard, Guide, p. i and 401, and 

 Proc. Essex Just, October, 1867, p. 94, where three other larvae found 

 under the carpet are mentioned. There are three European species 

 reared. Sc. senilis (Bouche Naturg. Ins., p. 46) is said to live in rotten 

 fungus on willows and other trees. Sc fenestralis (Assman Stett. Ent. Z. 

 1863, p. 400) in over-ripe strawberries; but it has been later suggested 

 that it may belong to another species. Frauenfeld (Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. 

 Wien. 1864, vol. xiv) has reared Sc. fenest?'alis from larvae found in a 

 horse hair mattress. Prof. Loew records the larvae living in a swallow's 

 nest. Mr. Perris (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1870, vol. x., p. 230) tells that Dr. 



* Bahia or San Salvador is a province of Brazil, about 600 miles north of Rio 

 Janeiro. 



