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fond of the petunia and verbena, and so 
abundant are they this month (Sept.) that 
hundreds of them can be seen in an even- 
ing hovering over fields of these flowers. 
The moths from the winter chrysalids first 
appear early in June, and those from the 
first brood of larvae early in August. 
Searcely less abundant than D. lineata 
is Dolba hylaeus which occurs from June 
to September. Next in abundance comes 
Sphinx gordius, from May to September. 
S. kalmiae is common from the first part 
of June to August, and S. drupiferarum 
through June. 8S. eremitus is common 
from the middle of June to the middle of 
August. Darapsa choerilus is common 
from the middle of June to the middle of 
July. Philampelus achemon and P. satel- 
litia are rather common from the latter 
part of June to August. 
quemaculata is very common from June 
to September, but JZ. carolina is rather 
rare. The same remark will apply to 
Sphinx chersis. Thelarvae of Ceratomia 
amyntor feed on the elm (Ulmus) and on 
the white birch (Betula alba), but are not 
common. 
Macrosila quin- 
Mommy or a wasp.—In Maspero and 
Brugsch’s work ‘‘La trouvaille de Deir-el- 
Bahari” (1881) is given, according to a 
note presented by M. Van Seevelt in the 
July meeting of the Société entomologique 
de Belgique, a notice of a wasp found 
preserved in the coffin of Amenophis I, 
the illustrious king of Egypt. The wasp, 
attracted probably by the flowers with 
which the mummy of the king was wrapped 
previous to interment, had entered the cof- 
fin and thus furnished us probably the only 
PSYCHE. 
Our most common Smerinthus is S. ex- 
caecatus, occuring in July and August. 
A female taken 15 July and confined in a 
box deposited 331 eggs from 15 to 20 July, 
about 30 being laid each evening at dusk 
and the same number in the morning. 
This was done quite regularly, no eggs 
being laid at any other time. The eggs are 
cylindrical, flattened, 2.5 mm. in diameter, 
and grass-green in color. The larvae be- 
gan to appear 22 July and all were hatched 
by 28 July. The young larvae measure 
4.7 to 5 mm. in length, and are yellowish 
green with a darker dorsal line. Head 
pale green, and twice as wide as the body. 
Caudal horn long, dull red. 
Among the rarest of our sphingidae, 
of which I have taken but one or two 
specimens each in nine years of collecting, 
are Smerinthus modestus (22 June and 20 
July), S. geminatus (3 Aug.), Sphinex 
luscitiosa (20 June), Thyreus abbotit (in 
May), Deilephila chamaeneriz (2 June), 
Choerocampa tersa (15 July), Darapsa 
versicolor (8, July), Hllema harrisii (2 
June). 
Amherst, 13 Sept. 1882. 
specimen of a mummy of a wasp. 
De Rhoné, in his ‘* Résumé chronolég= 
ique de Vhistoire d’Egypte,” places the 
accession of Thoutmes I, the successor 
of Amenophis I, to the throne in 1668 B. 
C. This insect therefore died 3550 years 
ago, and is probably the only insect: 
of which the date of death was of such — Fhe 
remote antiquity aud is so certainly recor- 
ded. The name of the species is not 
given. 
