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the general color is " reddish brown inclining to dullness." I 

 have raised about five hundred Lunas, and to my knowledge 

 no larva spun its cocoon without turning dull reddish brown 

 some time before. The moths sometimes fly to a lamp. I have 

 never been able to attract many by exposing a female ; the 

 largest number that I have attracted in one night is nine. 



Callosamia Prometliea. Larva eats button bush, cherry, sas- 

 safras, spice bush, apple, ash, lilac. It is a curious fact that the 

 males fly only during the afternoon, from about three to six 

 o'clock. They often come in large numbers to a fresh female. 

 I never saw a female flying by day ; I think they fly by night 

 only. Cocoons may be found often in large numbers, hanging 

 on button bush, by river banks, in winter. I have often found 

 hundreds thus in one day. 



Platysamia Oecropia. Larva feeds upon button bush, apple, 

 wild cherry, ash, barberry, blue-berry, birch, oak, hazel, maple, 

 elder-berry, alder, jersey tree, buck thorn. Males often come 

 in large numbers to a fresh female. I have taken forty-three 

 in one evening. Males vary very much in color. I have one 

 of a bright orange color, which came to a female. R. Thaxter. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 



Authors and Societies are requested to forward their works to the Edi- 

 tor at the earliest date possible. We ask our readers to inform us of the 

 publication especially of those works which are not generally consulted by 

 entomologists. B. Pickman Mann. 



( Continued from page 192. ) 



Nos. 585 to 589 are from the Proc. Amer. Assoc. Advanc. 

 Sci., vol. xxiv, part ii. 



* 585. C. V. Riley. The Locust Plague ; How to avert 

 it. p. 215-222. 



Ravages committed by Caloptenus spretus in the Western United States, 

 in 1873, 1874 and 1875; natural agencies and artificial means to be em- 

 ployed in the destruction of the eggs and unfledged young (the winged in- 

 sects being uncontrollable) ; importance of governmental assistance towards 

 the investigation and adoption of further means of prevention. 



* 586. A. R. Grote. The Etfect of the Glacial Epoch 

 upon the Distribution of Insects in North America, p. 222- 

 226. 



[Same as the article cited in Rec, No. 507, slightly amended.] 



