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Feeds upon the flowers and seed vessels of Archangelica 

 atropurpnrca, L. But after passing through its last moult it bur- 

 rows into the stems of the plants, feeding upon the pith. 



Larvae captured July i. Last moult July 4. Burrowed into 

 stem July 6. Changed to chrysalis July 8. Imagos emerged 

 July 16-19. ^ '^"^ indebted to Mr. Vanwaggenen, of Rye, West- 

 chester county, N. V., for my knowledge of this species. 



NOTES ON LEPIDOPTERA. 



Sphinx Sequoia. Bdv. I recently received from my friend, Mr. R. H. 

 Stretch, of San Francisco, several examples of this very rare Sphinx, taken by 

 him in Butte county, California, in July last. They vvere all captured at night, 

 flying about the light of an electric lamp. As far as 1 am aware only three ex- 

 amples of the species were previously known to exist in collections. 



Hy. Edwards. 



Rare Lepidoptera in New Jersey. Every year some scarce species 

 are taken in this State, and Mr. B. Neumoegen appears to have been more than 

 fortunate during the past season. His captures include among othrrs Mehicea 

 Phaeton,^Limenitis Ursula, aher. ' /^en/seca Tarquinius, Thccla strigosa, 

 Thecla Nip/ion, Papilio Cresphontes, Pamphila Pontiac, P. Massas z'f, 

 Hemaris axillaris^ H. Floridcnsis, II. Biiffaloensis, Thyreus Abbotiii, C^es- 

 sonia Jus^landts, Melittia Cefo, Benibecia mars^tnata, Fatua denudata, yEgeria 

 albicornis, Thyrzs htgubris, Eiichates eglenetisis, Parorgyia leuccophaata P. 

 Clintonii, Lagua crispata, Euclea quercett, E. ferruginea, Parasa chloris 

 Monolenca seinifascia, Phobetroii pit/ieciiim, Lz?iiacodes rccttlitua, L.fasciola, 

 Adoneta Spinuloide^, Apatelodes torrefacta, Notodonta stragula. Edema albi- 

 fro7ts,Q£demasza concinna, QL. extviia, CE. badia. Coelodasys leptinoiaes, Heter- 

 ocanipa biundata, Dryopteris rosea, Tolype laricis, Xystus RobinicE, and 

 many rare Noctuas. The locality examined was in the vicinity of Morris Plains. 

 ^ Hy. Edwards. 



AsiLUS AND Geometer. While collecting in July last in the neighbor- 

 hood referred to in the preceding paragraph I came upon a large colony of the 

 pretiy Geometrid moih. Aspilates dissiniilaria, Guen, and was astonished and 

 interested to see the persecution to which it was subjected by a large species 

 of Asiius. The moths were very abundant, and as they rose out of the low 

 bushes through which I walked, each specimen was followed by an Asiius, 

 which appeared to he constantly on the watch. If the moth took refuge in the 

 lower branches of the bushes the dipterous tiger followed and hunted the leaves 

 and twigs as a terrier hun's a cover for a raobit. The poor moih on being ap- 

 proached too closely by its tormentor would take wing, but was instantly fol- 

 lowed and, in most cases, seized by its insatiate enemy, borne to the nearest 

 resting place, and immediately killed. 1 captured some of the Asiius the mo- 

 ment the mo h was se^z-d, but in ?ll cases^ath appeared to have ensued at 

 once, the point of attack being the thorax Tf \.\\& Aspiiates. One specimen of 

 Asiius observed by nie destroyed no less than eight of the moths in about 

 twenty minutes, apparently only sucking trie juices, and discarding the rest of 

 body as soon as this operation was performed. Hy. Edwards. 



Tolype laricis. Lintn. While strolling about the lower falls of the 

 Genesee yesterday I found six cocoons of T. laricis on the white pine. (A 

 Strohus). To-day I have a fine pair of mjths from ihem, and think u 

 worthy of record that the snecies is found elsewhere than on the larch, {Larix 

 A?nericana) as the latter species does not s^row where the cocoons were 

 found. H. Roy GiLBttRT, Rochester, September 4, 1882. 



New Method of Feeding Larv/E. 1 believe I have made a d scovery 

 by which larvae may t>e kept and reared on food prepared so as 10 last through 



