THE LEPIDOPTERIST 



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erably wider. 



This is a most beautiful form of our most attractive 

 catocala which Strecher very appropriately called "the 

 ermine of the catocalae." 



l^iken at Tampa, Florida, May 18, 1918. 

 Holotype. S Six Co-types in the author's collection. 



NOTE 



In LEPIDOPTER^ Mr. William Reiff calls atten- 

 tion to the description of Catocala minuta f. hiseri 

 Cassino in the Lepidopterist for April 25 which seems 

 to him to be anonymous. It is usually understood that 

 unsigned articles and notes are by the editor, but that 

 there be no misunderstanding is may be well to state 

 that the author of the description is Samuel E. Cassino. 



The Occurrence of Hemileuca lucina 

 in Massachusetts 



By Rudolf C. B. Bartsch, Roslindale, Mass. 



Hemileuca lucina has never to my knowledge been 

 previously recorded as being found in the state of 

 Massachusetts. 



While Trout-fishing in a brook running through 

 Camp Devens, during the latter week in May I was 

 very much surprised to find several clusters of larvoe 

 of this i)retty moth feeding on Meadow Sweet (Spirsea 

 salicifolia). The larvae had already passed through 

 the first moult. Having collected larvae of Hemileuca 

 lucina for several seasons at Raymond, N. H., I feel 

 that there is not the slightest doubt as to the correct 

 identity of the larvae found at Camp Devens. How- 

 ever, 1 shall rear as many as possible from this new 

 localitv and report the results at a later date, 

 June i, 1918. 



