August 1891 I 



PTC HE. 



129 



Cerura occidentalis 



" aquilonaris 



" cinerea 



" multiscripta 



Platypteryx arcuata 



Dryopteris rosea 



Actias luna 



Telea polyphemus 



Calosamia promethea .... 

 " angulifera .... 



Platysamia cecropia 



Hyperchiria io 



Eacles imperialis 



Citheronia regalis 



Anisota stigma 



" senatoria 



Dryocampa rubicunda .... 

 Clisiocampa americana . — 



" disstria 



Gastropacha americana . . . 



Tolype laricis 



" velleda 



Prionoxystus robiniae .... 



June 

 14. 



June 

 20. 



13 



50S 

 I 



June 

 24. 



1382 



July 



23 



20 



5 



3 

 429 



82 



1 



Totals per visit 118 SSi 1579 i 1424 1199 1074 17S 918 503 



July 



9- 



13 



3 

 1 



15 



2 1 

 16 



4 

 3 



82 

 29 



J»iy 



17- 



July 



2S. 



Aug. 

 4- 



l| 



Aug. 

 14. 



Totals. 



6 

 1 

 o 

 1 

 2 

 54 

 4 

 1 



49 

 106 



40 



H 

 9 

 o 



28 



Hi9 

 118 



2 



4 

 o 



Total number of motbs taken. 



7S74 



EXPERIMENTS WITH ALPINE BUTTERFLIES. 



BY SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. 



Before noon on July 17 last, the morn- 

 ing being fair, 1 caged half a dozen 

 Ocneis semidca 9 on a pot of growing 

 sedge in an open south window, in the 

 hotel on the summit of Mount Washing- 

 ton, N. H. The afternoon and all the 

 next day the mountain was enveloped 

 in clouds, and no eggs were laid before 

 July 20 when, by eight o'clock, a single 

 egg was seen ; during that day and the 

 next, both of which were fair, about 

 eight or nine eggs were laid, perhaps a 



few more. July 20, at about 2 p.m., 

 two more cages were stocked, both out 

 of doors on growing sedge, and in one 

 five, in the other seven females were 

 placed. These were examined about 

 twenty-four hours later ; three eggs 

 were found in the former, none in the 

 latter, and all the females were re- 

 placed where the five had been, and left 

 in the care of Mr. H. H. Lyman who 

 remained longer on the mountain. Into 

 the caere in the house half a dozen more 



