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rent in iinio. I have little faith in species based on such slight differ- 

 ences and scanty material, where its congeners are known to differ so 

 much ; and am a little surprised that a species should so be made by 

 one who has shown that he fully appreciates the variation that spe- 

 cies are subject to, and who has even ventured much farther in sinking 

 species than I have thought proper to, by merging Callimorpa fulvi- 

 cosia Clem., with C. Lecontei Boisd. * 



Mr. John Kirkpatrick of Cleveland, Ohio, f has reared the moth 

 from larva3 and chrysalides found in dead stems of the Swamp Rose- 

 mallow {HihisGus iniliiaris), and gives a description of the larva from 

 specimens which had already buried themselves, and which is, conse- 

 quently, quite misleading, as most larvre change much in appearance 

 after concealment prior to pupating. He gives no proof that they fed 

 on the mallows, and as he expressly states that there were thousands 

 of grape-vines within easy reach, it is probable that the worms, after 

 quitting the vines, sought the Hihiscus stems, simply for purposes of 

 transformation, in accordance with their peculiar boring habit at this 

 time. 



In the moth state, both species of Eudryas rest during the day on 

 the under-side of the leaves, with the wings closed roof-fashion over 

 the back, and the heavily tufted front legs stretched forward. In this 

 position they bear a close resemblance to a bit of bird-dung. 



Eudryas unio — Larva. — Since the above wus written, INIr. Lintiier has favored 

 me with advance slieets of an article "On the Larva of Eudryas uiiio Hlibn. and allied 

 rorms,"J from which I quote the following detailed description of the larva : 



Head rounded, its diameter somewhat exceeding one-half that of the bodj^ orange 

 with black spots, of which there is an oblong one near the base of the clypeus, two 

 semi-ellipsoidal ones surmounting its apex and a small quadrangular one on each side ; 

 a perpendicular row of live spots on each side of the clypeus, of which the second 

 superior one is the largest, a spot above the ocelli, and a row of three behind them. 

 Body tapering regularly toward the head, from the eleventh segment, which is elevated 

 in a^hump. First segment white, with two transverse bands of blfvck spots, and with 

 two black bands only seen when extended. The abdominal segments have each three 

 white and three black bands on each side of a central orange band. The orange band 

 is the broadest; it is marked dorsally on its anterior margin by two transversely 

 elongated black spots resting on the black line margining it, and laterally by two gemi- 

 nate similar ones, of which the upper is the larger and the lower embraces the stigma ; 

 behind the lower margin of the stigmatic spot, centrally on the bandj is a small rounded 

 black tubercle bearing a short hair ; on the posterior margin of the band, resting on 

 the bordering black line, are two subdorsal semi-elliptical black spots, forming with 

 the two anterior spots a "trapezoid ; " between these subdorsal spots are two or four 

 black points, of which the two interior sometimes assume the form of a "dove-tail" 

 medial process of the black band \ the orange band extends downward to the black 

 bases of the prolegs, midway between which and the stigmata, on or in range with 

 the third black band, is an elongated hair-bearing black spot, and posteriorly another 

 similar one, lower and running into the black bordering the prolegs. The white band 

 preceding the orange is interrupted or greatly contracted on the medial line by an en- 

 largement of the black band anterior to it, and is marked with a small piliferous black 

 dot in front of the stigma. On the second and third segments the orange band is 

 marked with a row of eight spots, of which the six superior are located in the middle 



* lllustr. of the Z}'ga;ukla3 aud Bomhycidre of N . A . , T, p. •2:i~ . 



t Oliio Farmer, Feb. 8, 1868! 



J Entomologiad Coutribiitions, No. Ill, in 'itjth Rep. , N. V. St. C:ib. Nat Hi.st. , pp 117-24. 



