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single example at May wood, 111., on September 15. Mr. 

 Thaxter, in his List (Psyche, II, p. 36), mentions it as rare, at 

 light, in August. 



The moth is very variable in its features, in the color of its 

 wings, form arid coloring of its discal spots, etc., or different 

 species are included under that name. The varieties which 

 Mr. Grote has referred to this species, seem to me to differ too 

 much to really constitute a single species. Another season's 

 collections may enable us to determine the value of these dif- 

 ferences. 



Mr. Grote has referred, with some doubt, an Agrotis received 

 from California, to this species. 



Agrotis brunneicollis Grote. (Noctua) Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., 



Ill, p. 524, pi. 5, f. 5. 1864. 



This species has been captured for the first time in this dis- 

 trict, by Mr. S. C. Waterman, at Ten Eyck's woods, near 

 Albany, on the 15th of June, 1877. An example has also 

 been taken at Kenwood during the same month. Mr. Thaxter 

 records it among his Newton (Mass.) collections, as rather 

 rare, at light, in August. 





 Cucullia intermedia Speyer. 



Several examples of the larva of this species were taken at 

 Center, N. Y., during the last of June and first of July, in 

 their second, third and fourth stages, feeding on Mulgedium 

 leucophceum, popularly known as false- or blue lettuce. 



The young larva is striped laterally and dorsally, and bears 

 a strong resemblance to that of C. lucifuga in its early stages, 

 as described by Dr. Speyer in the Stettiner Entomologische 

 Zeitung for 1870, and in 23rd Rep. St. Mus. Nat. Hist., p. 

 222.* 



I regret that I have only the following brief notes of the ap- 

 pearance of the larva a part of what was intended to be a 

 detailed description. " The lateral stripe is white, of about one- 

 third the diameter of the body, traversed by a yellow stripe 

 of about one-half the breadth of the white, on which are the 



* To the kindness of Dr. Speyer I owe it, that the two specimens of the lucifuga larvse' 

 prepared by Mr. O. Schreiner of Weimar, Prussia, from which his descriptions above 

 referred to are drawn, have place in my collectio^i. The specimens show the life-like 

 appearance which may be imparted to larvae when prepared by inflation (see Scudder in 

 American Naturalist, vol. viii, p. 331), and also illustrate the service which they may ren- 

 der in the comparison of forms from widely separated localities and countries. 



