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using It largely for exchange. Only Cylleus Rohinice, Forst. , of the 

 Ceramb\xidcB has the same season, but is found on the Golden Rod, as 

 is well known. 



Of the other species of (?«c^5 I have taken G. debilis, Lee, about 

 July 1st on Hickory, G. figrma, De Geer, about July 15th on White 

 Oak. The very rare G. tesselata, Hald. , was found by Mr. A. C. Weeks 

 and myself on Staten Island, in July, 1885. We took it by beating over 

 the umbrella the dense 10 inch long shoots on freshly cut Oak-stumps. 

 Only one pair and three single females were secured. 



A New Spilosoma. 



By Annie Trumbull Slosson. 



Spilosoma prima, 11. sp. 



Size of .S". virgitiica, but a stouter insect, body lieavier and shorter, scarcely 

 reaching anal angle of secondaries. Primaries sordid white, stained witli ochreous, 

 especially along costa and inner margin, and with scatteied dots of dark brown. 

 These are arranged almost exactly as in some specimens of tiie form of H. textor, 

 Harris, known as cimea and punctata. The clots are much heavier and more distmct 

 on costa, and there is a submarginal line, very ]:)lainly indicated, and composed of 

 geminate dots on the venules. Secondaries sordid white. Abdomen thickly clothed 

 with white hairs through which can be seen the yellow of body, with dorsal row of 

 Ijlack s]3ots. Palpi, coxi\; and tibice very dark smoky biown, almost black. 



Though this description may seem to differ little from those of other 

 species, the moth itself seems quite distinct. Its peculiar ochreous shad- 

 ing — which makes the insect seem cream-color, almost buff, instead of 

 white — the heavy, stout look, and, above all, the very dark smoky color 

 of coxce and tibia;, differing so markedly from the light orange tints in 

 ■5". virginica, cungriia and iviiigonc, give it an appearance quite unlike its 

 nearest kin. Described from 5 (J^cj^, i 9' ^^''^git ^^ light in Franconia, 

 N. H., early last June. 



Books and Pamphlets received during December, 1888. 



Prairie Farmer, December, 1888. 

 Psyche, Vol. V. Nos. 151 and 152. 



Synop. of Families and Genera of N. Amer. Diptera, by Prof. S. \V. Williston. 

 Canadian NaturahVt, Vol. XX, No. 12. 



Fourth Report on Lijurions Insects, by Prof. Liitner, N. Y. State Entomologist. 

 Bulletin, Nos. 5 and '6. N. V. State Museum of Nat. History. 

 Le Naturaliste Canadienne, Vol. XVIII, Nos. 5 and 6. 

 Naturae novitates, N >s. 22, 23 and 24. 



Comptes-rendus de la Soi ieie Entomologique de B^-lgique, No. 105. 

 Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias eu Cordoba, Argentine Republic, 

 Vol. XXI, Nos. I and 2. 



R. T. Pearsall, Librarian. 



