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them. As yet we can only compliment Mr. Lyman's tact in sorting the 

 moths. I had the opportunity of examining a lot of Clymene, taken in 

 the vicinity of Buffalo, and I came to the conclusion that it was possible 

 that the yellow and white forms are yet interchangeable. All the white 

 forms show traces of yellow on costa or body parts. I also possessed an 

 example of var. albajichora m. (corresponding to Lyman's fig. 5), which 

 very nearly resembled interrupto-marginata as to the brown markings, but 

 on a white ground. I believe it is Dr. Packard who first drew attention 

 to the interesting fact that our Callimorphas are buff and white, corre- 

 sponding to the prevailing colors of our Arctiince, whereas the European 

 species is gaudily tinted, agreeing with the brighter European representa- 

 tion of the sub family of which it is a member. Like D at ana and 

 Hemileuca, Callimorpha is an example of a generic group in which the 

 species or forms are more nearly related than usual, and is thus one of 



those assemblages which I have called Progeneric. 



A. R. Grote. 



NOTES. 



Mr. Alfred Wailly, Tudor Villa, Norbiton, Surrey, England, is 

 anxious to obtain specimens of the wild Silk-worms of all parts of the 

 world for exhibition in the Department of Sericulture at the Paris Inter- 

 national Exhibition of 1889. In order to make the exhibition as com- 

 plete as possible, he wishes to obtain specimens of live cocoons, in large 

 quantities or small, with names of food-plants for each species, whenever 

 possible, and also specimens of the moths ; any specimens sent will be 

 purchased or exchanged, as desired. Small samples (in strong tin or 

 wooden boxes) of live cocoons and specimens of moths, can now be very 

 rapidly and safely sent by Sample or Parcels Post ; to avoid the risk of 

 emergence during transit, cocoons should be sent before the end of March. 

 The production of mulberry silk has been so deficient of late years, it is 

 most important that efforts should be made to utilise as many as possible 

 of the wild Silkworms, many of which produce silk of great strength and 

 beauty. 



Professor Samuel Pierpont Langley, LL. D., has been appointed 

 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, to succeed the 

 late Professor Spencer E. Baird. 



Change of Address. — Mr. C. H. T. Townsend, from Constantine, 

 Mich., to War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, D. C. 





