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The caterpillars have the anal claspers replaced by a single projection, 

 have fourteen feet and. make a cocoon between the leaves, and are prob- 

 ably double brooded, the pupa of the second brood hibernating. I have 

 described the larva of Dryopteris ; an allied genus has been described by- 

 Walker, from Japan, which 1 have not been able to compare critically with 

 our two North American species of Dryopteris. Mr. Henry Edwards 

 records the European Frionia lacertinaria from Canada, and it seems 

 that we have a second species in the Frionia bilineata of Packard. We 

 have two species of Platypteryx Lasp. (■=. Drepana Schrank,) from the 

 east, the one more whitish, Walker's arcuata, the other more of a buff 

 yellow, my genicula. The European genus Cilix of Leach, is apparently 

 absent in our fauna. In the shape of the wings this little group resembles 

 the following Attacince, if we may compare such frail species with the 

 giants of the family. The neuration shows also some approach to the 

 typical Bombyces. The hind wings have eight veins, but the inner of the 

 two internal veins is incomplete ; vein five is nearer to four than to six. The 

 fore wings are twelve veined, and a certain look of miniature Attacids is 

 due to the conformation of the wings. We have a Geometrid genus 

 Drepanodes, which, with its pointed primaries, looks like Platypteryx, and 

 it is possible that Stephens has so mistaken the species. 



STRAY NOTES ON MYRMELEONID.E, Part 5. 



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



Dendroleon paniherinum Fabr. 



Myrmeleon pantherinum Fabr., Mantissa, 249, 3 — Ent. Syst. ii., 

 93, 3 — Brauer Neur. Austr., 64. 



Myrmeleon ocellation Bork. in Scriba. Beitr. ii., 165, pi. 11, f. 5. 



Dendroleon pantherinum Brauer, Wien. Z. B. G. xvii., 963, pi. 

 14, f 3. 



The species was described (1787) by Fabricius, from a specimen 

 wanting prominent parts, antennae and legs. The descriptions by 

 Villers, Olivier, Gmelin, Latreille and Walker, are simply copies. 



Borkhausen, in 1791, described the sa mespecies as M. ocellatum, 

 from a specimen found in Darmstadt, Hesse. The description and figure 

 are good, and Burmeister believed the N. American species to be identi- 



