

Editors 

 Samuel E. Cassino, 

 Louis W. Swett 



Publisher 



Samuel E. Gassing 



Salem, Mass. 



\\)L. II 



May 25, 1918 



Xo. 5 



£ditor*s ^^ \\''\'i\\. to notify our sub- 



scribers that "The Lepidopterist" 



CxOrner from now has no longer any con- 



nection with any club or society. It is published and 

 financed solely by Mr. Samuel E. Cassino of Salem, 

 Mass. "The Lepidopterist" will cover an entirely 

 different field from the past, devoting its pages to 

 structure and biology, with collecting notes, lists of 

 insects, descriptions of new forms, and newest methods 

 of entomotaxy. 



Notes on the Eggs of Catocala 



By William Beutenmuller, Nezv York 

 The eggs of Catocala are laid in masses in the crev- 

 ices of the bark, and little concerning them is known. 



They are spheroidal in shape or are more or less 

 flattened on top and at their base. The surface is 

 grooved longitudinally, with many furrows. When 

 flattened they are usually laid overlapping one another 

 somewhat like the shingles on a roof (C palccogama). 

 The eggs remain unhatched until the following 

 spring, after being laid, and all the species are single 

 brooded excepting Eiiparfheiios nubills (and possibly 

 Allofria clonyuipha), which is double brooded and 

 hibernates in the pupa-state. The tgg stage lasts 

 from about 150 to nearly 300 days, for example, — 



Copyright, 1918. by Samue E, Caiaino. All ri(hti reterved. 



