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PSYCHE. 



[October 1S91. 



Halisidota caryae Harris. 



Mv notes in regard to the number of 

 stages of this species have already appeared 

 in Psyche, and, as the latter stages are all 

 essentially alike and the larva is well known 

 and has often been described, I will omit 

 further remarks upon it. 



Food-plants. — On Sept. nth I found sev- 

 eral larvae of Papilio turnus on Carya glabra, 

 on which I have not found them before. 

 They were large, bright in color, and nearly 

 full grown, and the leaves near them were 

 much eaten. All were on one tree, and the 

 onlv other tree very near was a chestnut. I 

 have found them, in Brookline, on ash, wild 

 cherry, lilac, maple, tulip-tree, plum; in 

 Vermont on willow; in New York on mag- 

 nolia. 



I found, on the same day, one larva of 

 Apatela americana on rose acacia, and one 

 on butternut. I have not found one on 

 maple this year, though I have found many 

 on elm and basswood. 

 Brookline, Mass. Caroline G. Soule. 



Choice of food. — The larva oiPlatysamia 

 ceanothi differs from all Bombycid larvae I 

 have reared, in always preferring the young 

 tips of twigs, instead of wanting older leaves 

 to eat as they pass the second moult. A brood 

 raised on wild cherry would not eat the 

 older leaves at all, usually stopping with the 

 sixth leaf from the tip of the twig, — these 

 twigs were saplings, not pieces from a tree 

 — and this habit they kept till they spun. 

 C. promethea larvae refused the young tips 

 as soon as they had moulted for the second 

 time, and finished up the leaves refused by 

 the cea?iothi\ Caroline G. Soule. 



Literary Notes. — Messrs. Reeve and 

 Co., of London, announce their intended 

 publication, if a sufficient number of sub- 

 scribers can be obtained, of a work on the 

 indigenous Heteroptera of Great Britain and 

 Ireland, by Edward Saunders. It will be 



issued in eight parts at five shillings per 

 part, with colored plates, the number of 

 which is not stated. 



The American entomological society an- 

 nounces the publication early in October of 

 a Check list of the Lepidoptera of America, 

 north of Mexico, by Prof John B. Smith. 

 The low price of one dollar a copy will bring 

 it within the reach of all. 



Seven parts of Moore's Lepidoptera Indica 

 have now appeared and it is only in the last 

 that the Euploeinae are completed. This 

 family is divided, as previously by the author, 

 into two groups : the Limnaeina of which 

 there are here described 10 genera and 29 

 species, of which 4 of as many species have 

 illustrations of the larva and pupa; and the 

 Euploeina with 16 genera and 50 species, 

 only 4 of which (of 3 genera) have their 

 early stages figured ; but let us be thankful ; 

 it is the largest collection of illustrations of 

 larval and pupal Euploeinae ever brought 

 together, and certainly justifies some at least 

 of the generic divisions made. In all there 

 are 53 plates given up to Euploeinae, and 

 they contain 225 figures of the imago (every 

 species being figured) and 31 figures of cater- 

 pillars and chrysalids. In the seventh part 

 the Satyrinae are begun, but only carried as 

 far as the key to the Indian genera. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB. 



9 May, 1890 — The 154th meeting was held 

 at 156 Brattle St. Mr. J. H. Emerton was 

 chosen chairman. 



Mrs. L. J. Livermore was elected to active 

 membership. 



Mr. Holmes Hinkley showed a structure 

 found on a violet leaf in his garden. Some 

 discussion followed as to whether it was made 

 by an insect or was a mere fungus growth. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder showed a copy of the 

 third volume of De Niceville's Butterflies of 

 India, and read an extract from it on a lycae- 

 nid butterfly, the larva of which feeds on the 

 pomegranate. (See Canad. entom., 1890, v. 

 22, pp. 243-248.) 



