94 
PSYCHE 
[October 
clypeus; eyes black, epistoma white, labrum brown, antennae white; setae short, 
brown, from small shining tubercles, normal; width, 2.4 mm. Body robust, cylin- 
drical, uniform, tubercle i of joint 12 slightly enlarged, the thorax a little smaller, no 
humps. Coloration essentially as before; segments wrinkly annulate, smooth around 
the spiracles; carneous brown, olivaceous yellowish on the sides, shaded with black- 
ish; thorax under lens pinkish white, dotted with brown-black, leaving subdorsal 
and stigmatal pale shaded bands, touched with ocherous; a square l.)lack patch 
laterally on joints 3 and 4; subventral region blackish shaded; feet dark brown. 
Abdomen dorsally (under lens) white, dotted tliickly with ocherous and sparsely 
with black; a waved subdorsal black shade composed of dots and disappearing 
largely under a lens; sides olive shaded, a large white bilobed spot about tubercle 
iii and the spiracle, another on tubercle v and an ocherous one on tubercle iv, distinct 
on joint 6, fainter on joints 5 and 7, lost in a lilacine shade on joint 8 and running 
into a band on joints 9-13. ^'enter ilotted, showing broad pale medio-ventral band, 
narrower dark one each side, narrow pale one, to a broader dark one over tubercles 
vi-vii, all rather evanescent under a lens; a straight subdorsal shade on joints 10-13, 
broken into oblique shades of dots; tubercle i of joint 12 white; anal shield and leg 
plates darkly marked on a white ground. Tubercles small, black; setae short, 
stiff, brown. 
The larva spun a slight cocoon between leaves and pupated at once; adult 
issued in about four weeks. 
Food plant, dandelion. The larvae were offered a variety of plants and chose 
this one. Probably they will eat a number of low plants. Larvae from Washington, 
D. C. 
A L.\RGE number of European and American entomologists attended the summer 
meeting of the Entomological Society of America, held on August 22 in connection 
with the Seventh International Zoological Congress in Boston. The auditorium of 
the Boston Society of Natural History was w'ell filled, and several very interesting 
papers were presented. Dr. Henry Skinner of Philadelphia presided. After the 
meeting the Cambridge Entomological Club entertained its guests at a smoker in 
the Grundmann Studios on Clarendon Street. 
