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Allied to Sobrina, Ligtns and Argcntata, but distinguished from al 

 these by the thoracic parts. 



DESIDERATA. 



Eudi'yas Stre Johannis, Walker. 

 Ctenucha Robinsonii, Boisd. 

 Lycomoipha Palmerii, Packard. 

 Penthetria majuscula, Hy. Edwards. 



" parvula, Hy. Edwards. 



Nola anfracia, H. Edwards. 

 Hypoprepia incid'.a, H. Edwards. 

 Cisthene tenuifascia, Harvey. 

 Eulithos a thoracica, H. Edwards. 



" composita, H. Edwaids. 

 Nemeophila Scudderi, Packard. 



" Geddesii, Neumoegen. 



Alexicles aspersa, Groie. 

 Spilosoma anligone, Sirecker. 

 Eclypia bivittata, Clemens. 

 Leuearctia permaculata, Packard. 

 Halesidota Davisii, Hy. Edwards. 



" mixta, Neumoegen. 



" minima, Neumoegen. 



" cinnamomea, Boisduval. 



" macularia, Walker. 



Euhalesidota pura, Grote. 

 Vanessodes fuscipes. 

 Euchsetes inopinatus, Hy. Edwards, 



Of these desiderata, Endryas StcE Johannis is in the British Museum; 

 iht iyY)Q% oi L. Pahnerii diVid Leucarciia perviaculaia, as well zs Eciypia 

 bivittata appear to be hopelessly lost; Ctenucha Robimonii and Halesidota 

 liyinamomea appear to exist only in the Boisduval collection in France; 

 Halesidota macularia is in the British Museum, b^ut apparently not 

 known in the United States; and lastly Nemeophila Skudderi (Platarctia, 

 Packard) is Nemeophila Sdwynii, H. Edwards, and may be in collections 

 under that name. 



NOTE ON SANDALUS. 



Sandalus has always been rather an uncommon insect near N.Y. 

 while Mr. H. W. Wenzel of Philadelphia has found it commonly enough; 

 he writes: ''In regard to finding Sandalus petrophy a ^ you inform me that 

 the insect is rare in the neighborhood of New York. I think if it is 

 sought for in the rigl^t season and locality it might be found as frequent- 

 ly as I find it near Philadelphia. I do not think Sandalus is a local in- 

 sect, as I have found it in several places, not before the end of June, and 

 the most of them I have captured in the middle of July, and always on 

 Beech, crawling on the bark or sheltered along the roots of the tree. 

 Their movements are very slow. 1 have frequently observed them with 

 head and thorax covered with dirt; have also found them half out of the 

 ground, but only in the morning. The females are found more frequent 

 than the males. So far as my experience goes, the larvae evidently live 

 on Beech. The new classification refers to Sandalus as affecting various 

 cedars; I have collected in several cedar districts through Southern New 

 Jersey but never met with a single specimen on cedar, and wherever I 

 have found them, there was no cedar in the vicinity." 



