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Notes on American Lepidopters* 

 By A. G Bunj r, V. L. S., F. X. S. 



We have received the following . om Air. A. G. 



British Museum. The)' are of very gr 

 anil \vi truly thankful to .Air. Butler 



upon the Collections of American Lep 



" In the Zelli i t I find six the 



same as Repa > ma Walk., the first s] ticket 



with the leg* nd '-< 7< • . fifil Nord 



America.' We have thus the fact i mityofW; Packard's 



it. £ Wia alb, i th >rm of 



ies." 



In another letter Mr. Butler says : "I am ar 

 Nola. In the ' In ite c< 

 as .A! minuscula, Zeller, and a 

 N. fuscula, Grote 

 little darker or lighter, but with a le /n tint : tl 



identii 



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Myriopoda or Myriapoda ? 



This word, by Dr. U -n p. 61) is differently 



spelled by Zoologists. It was written Myriapoda in ti, 

 my " Guide to the Study of In >oking inl 



of the word it seemed evident that the con Myrio- 



poda; so at considerable expense I | ! 



and the spelling corrected. The word is derived from Myrios, thousand, 

 and pous, podos, foot, hence the natural spelling is Mvt ■ ithei 



than, Myriapoda. I have submitted the point to a well known ■ 



ilar, and hi with this orthi igraphy. 



The word was spelled by Latreille Myriapoda ami is ^ > given in 

 Agassiz' Nomenclature, bul even il eilation of a class is nol cor- 



rectly spelled, whatever scruples we may feel at changing the original 

 spelling of a generic or specific name, the most extreme 

 not, I think, adhere to a wrong, or even slightly incorrect orthography 

 in any of the comparatively tew class or ordinal names in Zoology. 



A. S. Packard. 

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( '< ilumbia, ( >. . June. [887. 

 Editor Ent, \m Dear Sir: Would some read Ent. Am. 



ni mgh i" table J* »urnal, of a way to sue- 



fully winter larvae of Caelodasys, Hetei 11 impa, Cerura, &c. 

 Tli^ their growth, change color and 



construct their 1 in the Fall te until Spring. 



I have f en difficull to winter tin m. 



Voui fully. \\'. N Tai t.ANT. 



