August —December iSSg.] 



PSYCHE. 



259 



p. 183 Bull., Bigot, in his characteristic 

 way, proposes a new generic name, 

 PseudarcJiilestes^ for Dasypo^on albi- 

 tarsis Macquart. The author could 

 have hardly comprised more errors in 

 one short note than he has done. First, 

 Schiner first described the genus Archi- 

 lestes iyArchilestris) in the Verh. zool.- 

 bot. gesellsch. 1S66, v. r6, p. 672, and 

 not in Raise der osterreichischen fre- 

 gatte Novara, which appeared two years 

 later. Second, he says nothing about 

 D. magnijiciis Walker, being the same 

 as D. albitai'sis^ but, on the contrary, 

 places D. albitarsis as a synonym of 

 D. capnopterus VVied.(c»^. r//., v. 16, p. 

 703 ; V. 17, p. 377), the type of the genus. 

 Had Bigot been at all familiar with 

 what Schiner has written, he would have 

 observed that Schiner savs expressly 

 (Verh. zool.-bot. gesellch. v. 17, p. 

 37S) that the third antennal joint in 

 A. capnopterus is '•''auf der Oberseite 



behaart^''' the very identical character 

 that Bigot assumes as distinctive of his 

 Pseudarchilcstes I Furthermore, Schi- 

 ner says nothing in his original genei'ic 

 description about the third joint not 

 being hairy above. That he does say 

 so in a later description was undoubtedly 

 an oversight, that should not have 

 been accepted so heedlessly. In a 

 word, Bigot erects a new genus upon 

 the type species of another genus, based 

 upon a character that was expressly 

 stated to be present in that type. Ar- 

 chilestris tJiagnificus Walk, has, like- 

 wise, the "third joint of the antennae 

 distinctly beset with hairs on the upper 

 side." (Osten Sacken, Biol. Cent.- 

 Amer., p. 169.) 



1 wish to substitute JSIyiothera for 

 Lynchia^ p. 255, as I find the latter was 

 used by Weyenbergh in 1881. 



NOTES OX THE EARLY STAGES OF SOME HETEROCERA. 



BY CAROLINE G. SOULE AND IDA M. ELIOT. 



Panopoda RUFIMARGO, VAR. ROSEI- 



cosTA, Guen. 



This larva was .28 mm. long, bright 

 green, and found feeding on oak in 

 Nonquitt, Mass., on 10 September, 18S9. 



The head was large, bright green, 

 minutely speckled with black, and hav- 

 ing a horizontal yellow line across the 

 "foi'ehead." 



The body was bright, rich green, 

 minutely speckled with black, and hav- 



ing subdorsal lines of bright yellow 

 extending from the head to the end of 

 the anal props. 



On the first segment were four small 

 yellow dots just behind the head, and 

 two larger ones behind the four. 



On the first and second segments were 

 a faint yellow horizontal line, and three 

 rough yellow tubercles. 



There was a dorsal line of yellow 

 dashes and the space on each side was 



