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abundantly represented. However, we had the 

 great fortune to find a female of a new Apantesis, 

 which will be described in detail in another 

 number of this journal. We had a very interesting 

 experience with this specimen. After we had placed 

 this rare catch in a chloroform jar and had discovered 

 that we had something entirely new, we were uncer- 

 tain whether we should kill it immediately or 

 whether we should first take a chance to make it 

 deposit its eggs. The absolute perfection of this, 

 specimen caused us to decide to kill it at once. But 

 the goddess of fate was there to help us in our di- 

 lemma. Was it that the chloroform in the jar had 

 weakened or that we pinned the specimen too early, 

 this we do not know. But the next morning, when 

 looking over our catch, we were pleasantly surprised 

 to find a heap of eggs in the box under the abdomen 

 of our Apantesis. The specimen w^as then placed in 

 the killing jar again, and we took care that it was 

 really dead when we placed it back in the box. It 

 may be mentioned here that this female had deposited 

 about one hundred eggs. Unfortunately, these 

 hatched while we were on the train on our way 

 back to Boston, and owing to the fact that we could 

 not obtain any suitable food for the young larvae till 

 we arrived home, they all died except ten caterpillars. 

 These were at once fed with tiny bits of leaves dug 

 out under the snow with which Massachusetts w^as 

 covered when we arrived. All ten caterpillars were 

 raised to the imago, a copola of one pair was ob- 

 tained, and while writing this we have already over 

 one hundred larvae of the second generation at the end 

 of their fourth stage. But let us go back to Florida 

 again. That night brought us also an interesting 

 specimen of a Sphinx, namely Cressonia juglandis 

 si^bsp. hyperbola Slosson. It was a very perfect 

 male specimen which had gone for a rest into the 

 store, and the storekeeper who at once had become an 

 enthusiastic collector through our activity, called our 

 attention to this "bug." In recent years this form 

 has been treated as an aberration of juglandis. 



