Family NOCTUID/E. 



Arsilonche albovenosa, Guen. Larval sto 



Young larva, (3 days). Head small, black above, mouth parts pale. Ground 



color of body sordid white. Segments 2, 3, 5, 6, 9 and 10 bear small black warty 

 tubercles on the dorsal region, and a smaller one on the sid s, from which spring 



rather short black hairs. Nos. 4, 7 and 8 have a dull orange transverse band. Anal 

 segment black. Underside sordid while. Feet dull black. 



Length 4 mm. 



After 1st moult.- Ground color sordid white, dorsal region dull chestnut brown, 

 with the black tubercles very apparent, those of 5, 8 and 9 much larger than the rest, 

 while those of the lateral region are arranged obliquely in pairs. 



Length 6 mm. 

 Food plant, Polygonum. The subsequent stages were not observed. 



Notes on some Coleoptera. 



By M. L. Linell. 



I have been led by my observations to believe that some CarabuLc 

 do not hibernate in the imago state. I have never been able to find Nebria 

 pallipes in early Spring, but on May 30th for a number of successive years 

 I have found numbers of specimens, but all immature. In the month of 

 June it becomes common. 



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I have also become convinced that Silvanus planatus is the female of 

 S. bidentaius. I have taken the two together in numbers, and found one 

 pair in copula, so that the evidence of their identity is at least very strong. 



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Last year, while collecting on Staten Island, I found on a tree stump 

 a specimen of Tomoxia bidentata. Waiting about the place for some two 

 hours, I succeeded in taking 16 specimens, all having alighted on the 

 same stump. 



This Summer I went for the purpose of getting the insect, to the 

 same place, but a little earlier in the season. 1 found Tomoxia sitting 

 on the same tree stump, but in every case they were T. lineella. They 

 were very shy, and as I did not have my net with me, I was able to secure 

 only one specimen. The same day I saw three specimens of T. lineella 

 in my umbrella all flying away. But there was no sign anywhere ol 7. 

 bidentata. 1 am quite of the opinion that 7'. lineella is the male oi 7'. 

 bidentata, and I am the more strongly inclined to this opinion, as it agrees 

 with the general tendency of the family to greater development in the male 

 of the maxillary palpi. 



