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certain tJiat they belong to this species, wliich is readily separable 

 from all the other I'hycids with reddish bases to the primaries 

 from the generic characters and the black dashes on the male hind 

 wings beneath. 



Description of Noctuid Larvae. 



By D. "W. Coquillett, Woodstock, 111. 



Telesilla cinereola, Gnen. Body green, lightest in the subdorsal 

 space; a whitish dorsal and sub-dorsal line; a white stigmatal stripe ; 

 a row of whitish dots in the sub-dorsal space ; venter deep green, 

 head smooth, green, with a white dash on each side, and an in- 

 verted Y-shaped Avhite mark on tlie face, length 1^ inches. Found 

 from June 15, to July 20. Transformation subterranean. Food 

 plant unknown; the larvae were found in a wheat field, full grown. 



Crambodes talidiformis. Gucn. Body green, dotted with white ; 

 a white dorsal and subdorsal line; a white line on the stigmatal 

 space, a pink stigmatal stripe, whitish at the edges ; sometimes 

 there is a dark stripe between the stigmatal stripe and the line 

 on the stigmatal space ; head green, with a few dark streaks on 

 the top ; length l^- inches. Food plant, Verbena hastata ? Found 

 from June 1, to July 15. Transformation subterranean. 



Adipsophanes miscellus. Grotc. Body quite slender, deep green; 

 from the spiracles on one side of the body to those on the other 

 side are about 10 wavy white lines ; below the spiracles is a white 

 stripe ; venter green, marked with 4 white lines of which the two 

 middle ones are the Avidest ; the two anterior pairs of abdominal 

 legs are much smaller than the two posterior pairs ; head green, 

 striped vertically Avitli brown and white ; length 1^ inches. Food 

 jdant. Verbena hastata? Found from May 20 to June 20 and August 

 1 to August 20; spins a tough cocoon. 



Oiketicus Abbotii. 



Mr. Grote exhibited the type of this species at the Meeting of 

 Entomological Club. It is a smaller species than the Cuban 0. 

 Poeyi. The insect is sable broAvn Avith a A'itreous bar at the 

 extremity of the cell of primaries. The narroAV external edging of 

 the Avings is pale. It is a true Oiketicus, generically distinct from 

 Tkyridopteryx. Mr. Grote found the coccoon, CA'idently of this 

 species, on the cotton plant near SaA'annah, Georgia. This specimen 

 Avas sent to AVashiugton by him. Mr. E. L. Graef presented him 



