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distinguish between continuous residents, summer breeders, and birds of 

 passage ? These moths are our birds. The ornithologists have already 

 a trinomial nomenclature, which we may come to use in time. After 

 awhile the most self-important classificator will come to appreciate the 

 fact, that the laws of Nature are of general application, and that the value 

 of Natural Science is tested by its ability to broaden our views and widen 

 our understanding. It is clear we must compare our results with those 

 reached in other branches of Natural Science. 



A. R. Grote, Bremen, Germany. 



A RARE MOTH. 



Deai- Sir : Permit me, in the pages of your valuable journal, to 

 record the capture here of an interesting moth, — the rare and beautiful 

 Hepialus auratus, Grote. Towards the close of last July, while strolling 

 through a cool shady ravine at Lancaster, near this city, I came upon my 

 treasure resting upon the leaf of a wild gooseberry bush that grew on a 

 knoll, surrounded by as rich a growth of vegetation as nature can well 

 produce in this latitude. As it hung to the leaf with its wings steeply 

 closed over its back, and the tip of its long body elevated, it was a very 

 difficult object to detect ; and in the deep shade in which it occurred, 

 greatly resembled a yellow, partially dead, leaf. The well known larvae 

 of Grapta progne, which feed on this plant, derive perhaps some pro- 

 tection from a similar coloring. May not this circumstance indicate the 

 gooseberry as the food-plant of the golden Hepialus ? The type 

 specimen of this species was taken by the late Mr. W. W. Hill in the 

 Adirondacks, July, 1877, and was described by Mr. Grote in the Can. 

 Ent., vol. x., page 18. As I find no reference to the capture of another 

 example, I presume the present to be its second recorded occurrence. 



E. P. VanDuzee, Buffalo, N. Y. 



CELIPTERA BIFASCIATA, BATES. 



Dear Sir : Mr. John B. Smith has compared my types of Celiptera 



bifaseiata, described as a new species in the Can. Ent., May, 1886, 



page 94, and informs me that it is evidently identical with Pliurys 



vinculum, Guen. 



J. Elwyn Bates. 



Mailed May 2nd. 



