THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. 



(Lophocampa Tesselaris) are pretty moths ; the Brindled 

 (Biston Hirtarius ?) is plain and more sober. And I perceive 

 this morning that a beautiful, but rather small Sphinx has 

 crawled out of the earth in one of my breeding-boxes, in 

 which the caterpillar buried itself in September. It very 

 much resembles the Eyed Hawk-moth (Smerinthus Occel- 

 latus), but the eye-spot has two pupils. I do not think, 

 however, that this character, the double pupil, is constant, 

 though it has given the specific name ; for in breeding two 

 individuals, whose larvae were taken together, in nowise dis- 

 tinguishable from each other, one of the perfect moths had 

 two blue spots, and the other only one, in these ocelli. They 

 were exactly alike in every other respect: it is the Twin- 

 Eyed Hawk (Smerinthus Geminatus). The wings are not 

 deflected, but stuck out at an angle of about 45° horizontally 

 from the body, the second pair being concealed beneath the 

 fore ones ; they are kept in almost constant vibration : the 

 tongue or sucker is very small. Besides these which I have 

 bred, I have taken many other species : two pretty Bombyces, 



the Snowy (Spilosoma ?) and the Panther (Spiloso- 



ma AcriaJ, both of which flew into my room at night : the 

 sexes of the latter differ from each other, the hind wings of 

 the male being deep yellow, those of the female pure white, 

 both spotted with black ; some NoctucB, among which I may 

 mention the Angleshades (Phlogophora Meticulosa) ; this 

 I shook from a willow in bush-beating: among the Geo- 

 metrcBf the minute but pretty little Orangeband, (Fyralis 



?J and some of the Veneer moths (Crambus) 



among the Tinece. 



^F, — I found two large hairy caterpillars of a dark grey- 

 ish colour, about a week ago, feeding on the leaves of a tall 

 herb, provincially called Indian Wickup (Epilobium Lati' 

 folium) ; they have since spun dark brown cocoons. They 



