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funnel is, in reality, built and extended by the larva ; and 

 what little matter besides silk goes lo make its exterior has 

 been added and worked in from the outside. In the several 

 larvae tliat I have had feeding in breeding-cages, this habit 

 of building up and making tubes, for which remnants of 

 leaves and other extraneous substances are pressed into use, 

 struck me as quite characteristic; and in one instance 1 have 

 had such a tube extended over nine inches from the tunnelled 

 trunk, the moss on which the section of Yucca rested being 

 used in its construction. 



In the issuing of the imago the pupa skin is rent on the 

 middle of the notura and across the eyes, and the casings of 

 the legs are never, and those of the antennae seldom, severed 

 from their solderings in the exuvium. The imago rests with 

 its antennae slightly diverging and generally directed for- 

 wards, with the wings elevated, closely appressed, and with 

 the costa of primaries at an angle of about 45° from the body. 

 Regarding the flight, which is diurnal. Dr. J. H. Mellichamp, 

 of Bluffton, S.C., was impressed with the extremely rapid 

 and darting motions of the insect as it passes from plant to 

 plant; and Mr. E. A. Schvvarz, of Detroit, who has had very 

 excellent opportunity of observing the species in Volusia 

 Co., Florida, informs me that, when startled, Megathymus 

 flies directly upward twenty or thirty feet, then horizontally 

 for a long stretch, — sometimes out of sight, — and descends 

 as directly as it rose. It frequents open places, is very shy, 

 and generally settles near the ground. 

 (To be coutiuued.) 



Eiilomological Notes, Captures, S;c. 



On the Immense Flight of Terms Lisa in the Bermudas 

 (Entom. ix. p. 54). — The niajority of the readers of the 

 'Entomologist' will, I am sure, have felt great interest in the 

 valuable paper, by Mr. J. M. Jones, on the extraordinary 

 flight of Terias Lisa to the Bermudas. As I take especial 

 interest in the migration of butterflies, as well as birds, and 

 being ignorant of the geographical range of that species, 

 beyond that given by Mr. S. H. Scudder in a footnote at 

 p. 57, I should feel greatly obliged to my friend Mr. Jones if 

 he could kindly answer the following questions: — (1) In 



