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is that species, and the synonyms of this author are unusually numerous 

 in this family. 



This reduces the number of our Sphingidae to 95, which is an ample 

 allowance, since I have my doubts as to one or two other species not 

 studied by me. I refer to my paper, Papilio, 2, 172, for notes on un- 

 identified species of Clemens, Kirby and Boisduval. I may also refer 

 here to my pamphlet on " The Sphingidae of the Middle States," issued 

 separately, which may, I hope, be of value in view of my continuous 

 studies on this group of Lepidoptera. 



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NOTES ON FENESICA TARQUINIUS, Fabr. 



BY PROF. C. V. RILEY. 



In his interesting article " On the History and the Preparatory Stages 

 oi Fefiesica tarqui7iius" (Canadian Entomologist, xviii., pp. 141-153) 

 Mr. Wm. H. Edwards makes some comments upon my article in Sciefice 

 of last April (30th), in which I announced the carnivorous habit of the 

 larva of this species. He has been led to do so in part by the incorrect 

 report in Entomologica Americana of the Proceedings of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of Washington for January 6th last. In that report " Mr. 

 C. L. Johmon" is said to have observed "a lepidopterous larva feeding 

 on a species of Aphid," but the report is incorrect both as to the fact and 

 as to the name. Judge Lawrence C. Johnson, an old-time correspondent 

 and for a while one of my assistants in Mississippi, was the correspondent 

 intended, and his communication, which I was familiar with, particularly 

 states that " he thought he saw the larva eating the plant-lice, but failed to 

 convince himself of the fact." Mr. Lugger, in the very report quoted by Mr. 

 Edwards (Can. Ent., xviii., 142, lines 2 and 3) expressly states that " he 

 had never actually seen them {Fenesica larvae) feeding upon the Aphids," 

 and as he previously remarked that he had " made the same observa- 

 tions " as Mr. Johnson, the report in Entomologica Americana is inaccur- 

 ate and contradictory on its face. Mr. Lugger is one of my assistants 

 here and I knew of his observations. Mr. Edwards' statement that " all 

 the gentlemen named had seen the larva feeding upon Aphides " is, there- 

 fore, neither justified by the facts nor by his own quotations, and whatever 



