August 1S97.] 



PSYCHE. 



103 



" Cnlis/o zaiigt's Fabr." 



" T/iecla to Mss. City Park, rare. On 

 Cammoniilla." 



" T/tecla ixion "' Fabr. 



Lists of moths are also given under " Ve.s- 

 PERiDAE, Phalaexidae and Tineeadae." 

 A list of nondescripts is given which includes 

 thirteen butterflies and sixty-one moths. 

 There have been very few collectors in the 

 locality and I am quite prepaied to believe 

 the above mentioned specie> were found. 

 Species new to our fauna are constantly being 

 recorded from Florida and Te.xas which have 

 been de.scribed from further south. Mrs. 

 Slosson has recently caught a number of 

 species in Southern Florida hitherto onlv 

 known from the Antilles. Henry Skinner. 



NOTES ON EPHYRA PENDULINARIA. 



The following notes were made nearlv 

 forty years ago for a study of the insects of 

 sweet-fern (Comptonia) which I may possi- 

 bly still be able to complete. 



The caterpillar was first observed Aug. 22, 

 1S59. at South Windsor, Conn., and the 

 following description taken : 



Color, green; head rust-red with yellowish 

 streaks, and a few scattering hairs; frontal 

 triangle whitish; head appendages except tip 

 of mandibles which are black, white; eyes 

 partly black and partly rust-red. Terminal 

 segment and prolegs roseate spotted with 

 faint green, with a green stripe down hind- 

 most prolegs; body with ten or twelve rows 

 of dots, or continually interrupted lines of a 

 fainter green above, about as many beneath, 

 taking up half the space; stigmatal line very 

 slightly and irregularly pinched. Three rows 

 of short, very fine black hairs on each seg- 

 ment transversely, the center row having but 

 half as many as either of the others, which 

 have but ten hairs in a row, equally above 

 and below; the central row seems to be irreg- 

 ular, and wanting on some segments; legs 

 whitish with a few hairs on them. Length 

 -|- 5 in ; breadth — tV '"' 



The thoracic segments and basal joints 

 of legs so contractile that the cateroillar can 



put all three pairs together on the jaws, with 

 scarcely a bend in the body, and when he 

 does so these segments are so swollen as to 

 give a clubbed look to the caterpillar. When 

 moving, it swings its body sideways (stand- 

 ing on its prolegs) like a pendulum for a 

 while, and then with great tremulousness 

 and frequently touching the surface, goes on. 

 In eating, it cuts deep holes in the leaf, eating 

 at the edge, eating backwards very vora- 

 ciously for about one-eighth of an inch ; then 

 beginning again where it started it goes over 

 the bitten space eating deeper and deeper till 

 the whole is sometimes deeper than wide; it 

 is fond of placing its prolegs on the end of a 

 branch and looking out upon the outer world. 

 It will spin a thread; it often will stand upon 

 the midrib with its prolegs and curving its 

 body, place its legs a little way above the 

 surface, and here remain a long while, 

 looking like a kangaroo ready to leap. 



It went to the under side of an oak leaf in its 

 tumbler on Aug. 26, and began spinning, 

 attaching itself by a fine silk circle to the 

 terminal prolegs, and fastened a thread 

 around one of its segments alter the manner 

 of butterflies; changed the same day to a 

 chrysalis, throwing the larval skin entirely 

 away. 



Chrysalis light green, a black stripe broken 

 twice toward the end on each side, along the 

 hinder margin of the wing. Two protuber- 

 ances, one at the base of each wing, white, 

 brownish at base; tail-piece almost colorless, 

 tip red. Abdominal segments of a lighter 

 color than the rest, with dots of a lighter 

 tint; anterior half of each abdominal seg- 

 ment punctate, posterior half minutely stri- 

 ate; a thread crosses the body upon which 

 it rests suspended; the thread splits into two 

 at the ends, being fastened at four points : the 

 back is slightly roofed on thoracic segments; 

 the tail-piece is immersed in a silken mass, 

 by which the body is retained in position ; 

 head end of the body flat and as if truncate; 

 two projections like warts at base of each 

 wing; the head is square, and the breast 

 flattened ; the sides of the body half way down 



