SUMMER NUMBER 11 
Of the species with bright orange bands across the underwings, 
ilia Cramer is the most common. Its upper wings are mottled 
gray and expand 3.5 in. My captures are from May 12 to 23. 
Cara is a trifle larger. It is more brown on the upper wings 
and the bands on the under wings are red. It is not common here 
because, of the food plants of its larva, willow is scarce and pop- 
lar entirely absent. Ours is the var. carissimas, the southern 
form. 
Ultronia has much the same colors but is smaller, about 2.25 in. 
Its var. celia has the first black band of the under wings nar- 
rower and usually a whitish smudge running lengthwise of the 
fore wing. Its larva feeds on oak, wild cherry, and plum. 
In muliercula Guer (The Little Wife) the bands are yellowish 
orange. My captures range from May 26 to June 11, but Gross- 
beck records it from Lakeland as early as May 5. The food plant 
of the caterpillar is wax myrtle. 
In similis var. aholah the orange has been replaced by yellow. 
This is the smallest of our species, measuring but little more 
than 1.5 in. April 18 is the only date. 
The caterpillars of the hickory feeding species often attack 
pecans but seldom become numerous. The insect is a lover of 
the deep forest and visits the more open pecan groves only occa- 
sionally and at night. 
PERSONALS 
Clarence Bass, who is now with a subchaser doing patrol duty, 
recently enjoyed shore leave at Miami and renewed his ac- 
quaintance with former associates in the State Plant Board work. 
F. F. Bibby is at present with the U. S. Field Hospital and is 
stationed at Santo Domingo, D. R. 
O. K. Courtney is now in the employ of the Federal Horti- 
cultural Board and is stationed at New Orleans in connection 
with the work of inspecting plant importations at that port. 
L. A. Daniel, District Inspector for the State Plant Board, is 
planning to leave for the North early in July to be gone for 
several months. 
J. Chaffin is at present on a trip to the East Coast, where he 
is assisting various assistant nursery inspectors of the Plant 
Board in the work in their respective districts. 
