May. '03] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. I43 



neighborhood of this city (Albany, N. Y.), which I think will 

 be of interest. 



A larva of Ceratomia amy ?i^or found on September 8, 1901, 

 pupated two days later in a pail filled with earth. June, July 

 and August (1902), having passed, I decided that the insect 

 was dead and disinterred it. The pupa, however, presented a 

 perfectly healthy appearance and I placed it one of my breed- 

 ing cages, where it remained without giving any sign of life 

 until December 5th, when I found it rolling merrily over the 

 floor of its place of confinement. Since then it has repeated 

 the performance several times and, unless some untoward cir- 

 cumstance prevents, should emerge during the coming summer. 



Another lepidopteron which refused to believe that there was 

 any warm season last year, was brought to the State Museum 

 a short time ago by Mr. R. K. Colville of this city. It was a 

 male Papilio polyxenes and emerged on February 1 1 , 1903, from 

 a chrysalis formed by a caterpillar taken in September, 1901. 

 Although the specimen never fully developed, a careful ex- 

 amination thereof failed to reveal the slightest departure from 

 the design or structure of the usual form disclosed from wint- 

 ering chrysalids. 



On August 18, 1902, I discovered three larvae of Polygo7iia 

 comma (on elm) in the stage following the second moult ; the 

 next day another in the stage following the first moult, and on 

 August 23d I found six others in the stage preceeding pupation 

 — these last in quite another locality. The chrysalids formed 

 by these caterpillars disclosed the imagos between September 

 4th and 27th, and of the nine two only were of the form harrisii, 

 six were dryas, and the other, a female, a peculiar form inter- 

 mediate between these recognized varieties and of which I have 

 seen but one other example. That dryas has been found among 

 the second brood I am certain, but in many years collecting this 

 is the first instance which has ever come under my personal ob- 

 servation. 



On July 26th I took, in my garden, a badly worn female 

 Polygonia interrogate 07iis umbrosa, and fastened to one of her 

 hindmost legs by several strands of what apparently was 

 spider thread, were three eggs. These hatched on the 28th 



