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Luscitiosa and Jasniiucaruin. The first named is taken in Canada, 

 Northern New York and Maine, the last will probably be found 

 more abundantly southward. The larva of CatalpcE\\z.'s, turned out 

 to be very numerous in various localities in the South, but the 

 Moth has proved difificult to rear. With several other Sphingi- 

 das, I took Versicolor twice at sugar near Buffalo, N. Y. ; from its 

 flight I could easily tell it from Myron and Choerihis, which came 

 abundantly to bait, but it was harder to " bottle." It had a dif- 

 ferent way of taking the bait from the difference in tongue. 

 Hageni has been taken in some quantity in Kansas by Professor 

 Snow, and seems to occur throughout the Southwest as well as 

 in Texas ; I have not heard of its being found near the Atlantic 

 seaboard. Our commonest species seems to be Lineata, after 

 this, Celeus \ Abbotii is also very well distributed. The species of 

 Heniaris are more local ; TJiysbe is found over the widest terri- 

 tory. Mr. Hy. Edwards speaks of buslieh of AcJicmon larvae 

 found in California on the vines ; it is rarer in the East, but on 

 Staten Island vineyards it was more usual than Pandoriis. Of 

 late years Inscripta has become rarer. Labriiscce has been found 

 as far North as New Jersey, borne on the winds from more south- 

 erly latitudes. 



In his " Synopsis of North American Sphingidae," a work some- 

 what ambitious in appearance, but not evincing a correspond- 

 ing study of the literature of the group, Dr. Clemens describes 

 the following species, which are not generally knowq/f 



Calliomnia Volatica from Brazil ; Deilephila oxybapJii (larva) 

 from Penn. ; Chceroca})ipa Procne ?>2\(\ to be from California, but 

 probably = C. Liicasi from East Indies ; C. Thalassina, of which 

 Butler says: "Seems to be allied to Ainadis;'' C. Versuta from 

 Mexico. Butler seems to have overlooked Calliovnna Volatica. 

 Whether the type has gone the way of that of Procne I do not 

 know, but it is certainly probable. 



THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF ARCTIA NAIS, 



DRURY. 



By G. H. French, Carbondale, III. 



Egg. — Diameter, .03 inch, color, white ; an obtuse cone, 

 about as high as wide, flat at the base ; smooth. These were 

 found on a ripe strawberry in a single cluster, hatched 5 days 

 after finding. They had the appearance of being freshly deposi- 

 ted so that it is probable this period is from 5 to 6 days. 



Young Larva. — Length .06 inch, color dull pale gray, head 

 black on the cheeks, a triangular space above the mouth of the 

 same color as the body. On each joint there is a transverse row 

 of tubercles, six distinguishable, black, from each arises a black 



