62. 



from which it stands in a oblique direction, the abdomen being 

 sHghtly curved. 



LlOPTlLUS HOMODACTYLUS, Walker. — Larva. — Body green ; 

 a dorsal white line, and a short distance each side of this is a faint 

 whitish stripe ; a broken subdorsal whitish line, and sometimes a 

 similar stigmatal one ; warts concolorous, and from each issues 

 a spreading cluster of six or more whitish hairs ; segment one 

 projects slightly over the head ; head and venter green ; length 

 14 mm. Feeds on Solidago Missouriensis. Three specimens; 

 very sluggish. One pupated June 15, producing imago June 28. 



Chrysalis. — Of the usual shape, white, tinged in places with 

 green, quite thickly covered with white piliferous spots, each bear- 

 ing one or two white bristles; length 10 mm. The chrysalis is 

 fastened ventrally to one side of some vertical object. 



For the determination of the above species I am indebted to 

 Mr. Chas. Fish. 



NOVA SPECIES GENERIS CERATOCAMPA. 



By D. H. Weyenberg, Cordova, Buenos Ayres. 



C. VOGLERI. n. sp. 



Alae anteriores subfuscae-subolivaceae maculis albis ellipticis, 

 in margine externo triangularibus alae posteriores flavse, speculo 

 centrali sanguineo, fascia nigra ad marginem externum emanans. 

 Collo axillisque sanguineis. 



Thorax lineis duabus parallelibus albis ornatis nee non 

 pleurae linea curva alba; abdomen subfuscum articulationibus 

 sanguineis et linea laterali alba; pedibus subfuscis. 



Alarum expansio 9 centim. Corporis longit. 4, 5 centim. — 

 Habitat, Cordova. 



Cordova, Argent., 1881. 



NOTES ON LEPIDOPTERA. 



COTTON-WORM MoTH. — The Moth of the Southern "Cotton 

 Worm " {Aletia argillaceci) has occurred in this county in immense 

 numbers during the past fall. I first met with it September 12 



