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PSYCHE. 



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The abdomen is strongly keeled dorsally, 

 the region of the keel being purplish, 

 somewhat mottled, and changing into 

 light ochreous above the white (inter- 

 rupted) subdorsal lines. Sides of abdo- 

 men mottled with purplish and dull 

 white. Femora with an ochreous line 

 above, and a white line at the sides 

 marking the ridges. Tibiae pale pur- 

 plish, mottled with pink at sides, with a 

 dark gray stripe beneath. Spines rosy, 

 tipped with black. 



9 . Green form. Similar but apple 

 green in place of brown, and hardly any 

 mottling; median zone of head and pro- 

 thors.x a dull emerald green, not mottled. 

 Lateral band a deep olive-green, the 

 white edging very distinct and beautiful. 

 Ground-color of tibiae pale bluish. 



Hab. Las Vegas Hot Springs, N. M., 

 July II, 1899. (W. Porter and S. Mize.) 



I give also a brief description of the 

 adult from the same place : 



9 . Like the pupa, but colors grayer, 

 not so reddish; hind tibiae coral red. 

 Tegmina blackish with a yellowish-white 

 subcostal stripe and another stripe in the 

 median field, beginning abruptly just be- 

 low the middle of the tegmen ; a longi- 

 tudinal ochreous stripe along the lower 

 margin continuous and concolorous with 

 the subdorsal stripes of the thorax. 

 Wings tinged with yellowish, apical 

 third dusky. 17 spines on outer mar- 

 gin of hind tibia. Measurements in mm.: 

 antenna, 16, vertex 5 J, pronotum 6 J, 

 tegmina 30, end of pronotum to tip of 

 abdomen 29^. hind femur 2ii, hind tibia 

 ig^. (Aug. 10, 1899. W. Porter). The 

 adult was kindly determined by Mr. 

 Scudder. Brunner found the species 

 only among Agave ; it did not occur 

 near or upon Agave at Las Vegas Hot 

 Springs. The tegmina in our form are 

 appreciably shorter than in Bruner's 

 types. 



Notes. — Carabus nemoralis Miill. is taken 

 not uncommonly at Cambridge, Mass. Otlier 

 North American records are Hudson's Bay, 

 St. John, N. B., and Maine. 



In Caterpillars and their moths (New York. 

 The Century Company, 1902), Miss Eliot and 

 Miss Soule record their long and varied ex- 

 periences in the rearing of moths. Chapters 

 one to six, pages 3-66, deal with appliances, 

 structure, habits, methods of care, preserva- 

 tion, note-taking, etc. ; and chapters seven 

 to seventeen, pages 69-299, are devoted to 

 more or less detailed life histories of a num- 

 ber of common moths, chiefly sphingine and 

 bombycine. 



The text, with the exception of the part re- 



lating to structure, is quite satisfactory so far 

 as facts are concerned, but from a literary 

 standpoint it lacks simplicity. The collo- 

 quialness of the style and the frequent use of 

 "One of Us," six times on a single page, is 

 especially displeasing. 



The illustrations are from photographs by 

 Miss Edith Eliot and show the caterpillars 

 and spread moths of most of the species 

 treated. Those of the caterpillars are uni- 

 formly good, while those of the moths are 

 more uneven as properly spread specimens 

 were not always selected for illustration. 

 The index even as a list of names is inade- 

 quate and the rendering of some of the scien- 

 tific names shows careless proof reading. 



