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in both sexes. The eggs of this species .are very flat, circular 

 and translucent, with a diameter of 0.7'""', and are laid singly on 

 the underside of the leaf near the mid rib. The species belongs 

 to the genus Teras, and as Packard's specific name oxycoccana has 

 priority, the insect should be known as Tcras oxycoccana, Pack. 

 The insect, according to Mr. Brakeley, who gives an account of 

 it in the Report of the Seventh Annual Convention of the New 

 Jersey Cranberry Association (1879, p. 7), commonly affects, also, 

 the high-bush whortleberry. The gray form of the moth is most 

 frequent in autumn. 



CEta compta, Clem. (Rep. I, p. 151). — Notwithstanding Mr. 

 Grote doubts the identity of this insect with Cramer's Phal<27ia 

 punctclla, there is no question in my mind about it and I entirely 

 agree with Zeller, who makes also the Tinea piistulella Fabr. a 

 synonym. (Beitr. z. Kenntn. N. A. Nachfalter II, p. 28). It 

 was first described in this country in 1856 by Fitch as Dciopcia 

 aurea (3rd Rep. Ins. N. Y., p. 168). See also " Zygaenida; and 

 Bombycidae of N. A.," by R. H. Stretch, 1872, pp. 159 and 241. 



The egg of this insect is one of the most singular Lepidop- 

 terous eggs with which I am familiar. I have found it numer- 

 ously in the South in midsummer. It is 0.9'""" long, soft and 

 plastic so as to be variable in form ; but when laid (as it often is) 

 on the web which the young larvae make, where it takes on the 

 more natural form, it is ovoid, somewhat compressed, with fre- 

 quently a median ridge and one end narrowed and produced into 

 a short neck. The color is cream-yellow and the delicate shell is 

 corruguate. It is laid singly and generally slightly attached by 

 the broad side to the side of the mid-rib of the tenderest leaves, 

 and its contact (by virtue, doubtless, of some poisonous liquid 

 with which it is laid) causes a well defined swelling of the leaf- 

 vein. 



The species is placed among the ZygcBnidcB in Grote and 

 Robinson's List, and has evidently more affinities therewith than 

 with the Tc)ieid(Z. 



SOME NEW VARIETIES OF CATOCAL^. 



By G. H. French, Carbondale, 111. 



Besides the varieties named by Mr. Hy. Edwards in his ex- 

 cellent paper in Vol. 3 of the Brooklyn Bulletin, it seems to me 

 the following are not only sufficiently separate in their markings 

 from the usual forms, but also constant enough to warrant giving 

 them varietal names, and I therefore propose the following: 



Cat. Lachrymo.sa, Guen. 



Var. Evelina, n. var. 



This form is the opposite of var. Paulina, Hy. Edw. The 

 basal third of the primaries, the whole of the posterior or inner 

 margin, and the terminal space, is suffused with deep brownish 



