December 1S91.] 



PS 2 CHE. 



197 



Nadata gibbosa. — Eggs laid Jul v ^oth. 

 They were small, hemispherical, the flat side 

 attached to the leaf; opaque yellow with a 

 white bloom all over them. 



Aug. 5th they hatched, the young larva 

 being not quite ] 3 6 inch long, clear yellow in 

 color, with short, sparse hairs, and very 

 slender anal props. The head was very 

 large, and the body tapered from it to the 

 anal props. 



Aug. 9. First moult. \ inch long, taper- 

 ing as before. Head large, round, green. 

 Body green with yellow lateral line. Sparse 

 hairs visible only with a lens. Feet and 

 props green. 



Aug. 13. 2nd moult, -i inch in length. 

 Head very large, round, bilobed, very yellow 

 green. Body tapering to anal props, white- 

 green in color, with a pale yellow lateral 

 line, or band. Sparse hairs. Feet and props 

 green. The colors grew paler. 



Aug. 19. jd moult. : i inch in length. 

 Anal shield edged with yellow. Otherwise 

 as before. 



Aug. 25. 4th moult. \\ inches long. Head 

 large, round, with a deep suture, white-green, 

 lighter on top. Body blue-green, dotted 

 with white, and so thirklv dotted on the 

 dorsum as to look almost white. Lateral 

 line yellow in some specimens, almost white 

 in others. Anal shield edged with yellow. 

 Feet and props green. Spiracles white en- 

 circled with tan-color. They grew to i£ 

 inches in length, were stout, and had the 

 general shape of the "cut-worms." Sept. 

 4th the first one stopped eating, grew a little 

 purplish on the back and sides, and spun a 

 thin web on the bottom of the tin. 



Sept. 9th. Pupa appeared. It was \ inch 

 long, stout, shining, very dark brown, a 

 little lighter between the segments. Abdom- 

 inal segments pitted. Eye-cases very smooth 

 and prominent. Anal hook short, bifur- 

 cated. 



Caroline G. Soule. 



A correction. — I have referred to the 

 sycamore in my description of Heierocampa 

 unicolor and again in that of Halisidota 

 karrisii (Psyche, v. 6. p. 164) as Acer 

 pseudo-plat anus. This is a mistake for Pla- 

 tanus occidentalis. 



Harrison G. Dyar. 



Notes: — Candeze has just issued at Liege 

 a systematic catalogue of Elateridae known 

 in 1S90. The price is six francs. 



The last number of the Canadian entomol- 

 ogist is especially valuable from its contain- 

 ing two interesting papers read to the Ento- 

 mological club of the American association 

 for the advancement of science, in August; 

 viz., Mr. II. G. Hubbard's account of Insect- 

 life in the hot springs of the Yellowstone 

 National Park, and Mr. E. A. Schwarz's Pre- 

 liminary remarks on the insect-fauna of the 

 Great Salt Lake. Utah. 



The 8th part of Moores Lepidoptera In- 

 dica contains a table of the genera of Indian 

 Satyrinae. 56 in number, and descriptions of 

 the species of seven of the genera, together 

 with the usual eight plates. It is interesting 

 as figuring a considerable number of dry and 

 wet season broods of Indian Satyrinae distin- 

 guished by de Niceville. The early stages of 

 two species only are given. The notes upon 

 the distribution of the species are interesting 

 and extensive, as usual. We notice one typ- 

 ographical error in the incorrect t\pe used 

 in the heading for Virapa radza. 



The September number of the Entomologi- 

 sche nachrichten is entirely given up to a new 

 systematic arrangement and svnoptic table 

 of the genera of Aeschnidae. by Dr. F. 

 Karsch, in which he criticises the previous 

 system of de Selys. 



W. A. Wagner publishes in the Bulletin of 

 the Moscow society of naturalists (1890, 626) 

 a full description of the structure and habits 

 of a new trap-door spider, Tarentula opiphex, 

 which is specially interesting as being the 



