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 Acria), 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 Noctuce, among which I may 

 mention the Angleshades (Phlogophora Meticulosa) ; this 

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

 metry the minute but pretty little Orangeband, (Pyralis 



?) and some of the Veneer moths (CrambusJ 



among the Tinea. 



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 



