Allied to Sobrina, Ingens and Argentata } but distinguished from all 

 these by the thoracic parts. 



DESIDERATA. 



Eudryas Stce Johannis, Walker. 

 Ctenucha Robinsonii, Boisd. 

 Lycomorpha Palmerii, Packard. 

 Penthetria majuscula, Hy. Edwards. 



" parvula, Hy. Edwards. 



Nola anfracta, H. Edwards. 

 Hypoprepia inculta, H. Edwards. 

 Cisthene tenuifascia, Harvey. 

 Eulithos a thoracica, H. Edwards. 



" composita, H. Edwards. 

 Nemeophila Scudderi, Packard. 



" Geddesii, Neumoegen. 



Alexicles aspersa, Grote. 

 Spilosoma antigone, Strecker. 

 Ectypia bivittata, Clemens. 

 Leucarctia permaculata, Packard. 

 Halesidota Davisii, Ply. Edwards. 



" mixta, Neumoegen. 



" minima, Neumoegen. 



" cinnamomea, Boisduval. 



" macularia, Walker. 



Euhalesidota pura, Grote. 

 Vanessodes fuscipes. 

 Euchsetes inopinatus, Hy. Edwards. 



Of these desiderata, Eudryas S tee Johannis is in the British Museum; 

 the types of L. Palmerii and Leucarctia permaculata, as well as Ectypia 

 bivittata appear to be hopelessly lost; Ctenucha Robinsonii and Halesidota 

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

 Halesidota macularia is in the British Museum, but apparently not 

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

 Packard) is Nemeophila Sclwynii, 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 right 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 larvse 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." 



