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The species is allied to A. arcanella, Clem. Named in honor of my 

 friend Wm. T. Davis of Staten Island, N. Y. , an earnest and closely ob- 

 serving entomologist. 



Acrolophus plumifrontellus, Clem., var. angustipennella, n. var. 



This variety differs from the type form in having the wings much 

 narrower, and the markings almost absent. It is also much smaller. 



Expanse of wings 25 mm. 6 (^, Georgia and Fla. 



A remarkable Arctian and a history. 

 Bv David Bruce, Brockport, N. Y. 



In the beginning of June this year a friend in Batavia, N. Y., 

 captured a strange moth at light, Avhich I saw and pronounced an un- 

 described species. It was in general appearance something like a large 

 dark colored Enchcetes egle. The head, body and legs sooty brown, 

 small black dorsal spots on body ; all the wings brownish mouse color. 

 The veins on fore wings distinctly white as in Ct. venosa and Cressonana ; 

 it was a 9 iri fair condition, and reviving from the eff'ect of a weak 

 cyanide bottle she laid about 2 dozen eggs on the setting board. I took 

 charge of half the eggs, they were yellow and hatched in a few days. I 

 fed them on leaves of Plum at first, ther^ found they would eat Plantain on 

 which I reared them, I carefully watched and noted every change and 

 observing how much they resembled Spilosoma, I compared them with 

 several larvae of ^S". Virginica, which were abundant by the roadsides in 

 Denver, but these though varying much were mostly nearly white, while 

 my larva? were of a rich chestnut brown with black heads, hairs on second 

 and third segments velvety black. I carried them with me everywhere. 

 They were 2 weeks above timber line. They all nourished and pupated 

 and in 12 days after, the whole lot emerged from the cocoons in splendid 

 condition, but to my disa{)pointment and disgust — were examj)les of 

 Spilosotna Vvginica. I think this is a remarkable case of melanism 

 and deserves recording. If my friend had not preserved the eggs and I 

 had not reared the larva;, this would certainly have been named as a new- 

 species and would have been a standing puzzle to Entomologists. 



In the Tidschrift vor Entomologie, Vol. XXX, Prof. P. T. C. Snellen has an 

 extended article on the Lepidoptera of the Island of Curacao, \V. I., in which a 

 number of species are described and figured. Among these p. 54, pi. 4, f. 6, is one 

 described as Thelcteria costicmaciilalis, which is the counterpart of Emprcpes novalis, 

 Grt. In the same article reference is made to the fact that Zophodia (Mcgaphycis) 

 Bollii Zell., is found in the Island, and the species is described p. 64, and is figured 

 pi. 5, f. 6. Geo. D. Hulst. 



