Oct., '03] 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



265 



PAPILIONID.E. 

 Papllio turnus Lin. 



HESPERIDvE. 

 Pamphila peckius Kirby. 



" sassacus Harr. 



" mystic Scud. 



" hobomok Harr. 



'* " pocohontas Scud. 



" cernes Scud. 

 Amblyscirtes samoset Scud. 

 Nisoniades icelius Lint. 



SPHINGID^. 

 * Hemaris diffinis Bdv. 

 '* thysbe Fab. 

 Paonias excaecatus S.-A. 



ARCTIID^. 

 Spilosoma virginica Fab. 



SATURNIID^. 

 Actias luna Lin. 



LIPARID^. 

 Clisiocampa disstria Hbn. 



NOCTUID^. 

 Acroncyta americana Harr. 

 Parallelia bistriaris Hbn. 



PYRAUSTID^. 



Evergestis straminalis Hbn. 

 Hydrocampa australis Hulst. 



PTEROPHORID^. 

 Platyptilia carduidactyla Riley. 



TORTRICID^. 

 Ptycoloma persicana Filch. 



CONCHYLID^. 

 Conchylis argentilimitana Rob. 

 sp. 



GRAPHOLITHID^. 

 Exartema fasciatana Clem. 

 Paedisca sp. 



Phoxopteris nubeculana Clem. 

 " burgessiana Zell. 



GELECHID^. 

 Stenoma schlaegeri Zell. 

 Gelechia absconditella Walk. 



" vagella Walk. 

 Dasycera nonstrigella Cham. 



Hunting Empids. 



By Annie Trumbull Slosson. 

 It is chiefly the recent renaissance in this family of flies 

 which leads me to think that a few field notes concerning them 

 may be of some interest. Messrs. Coquillett and Melander 

 have each monographed the North American Empids within 

 the last few years, and both have described many new species 

 in the group, and not a few genera. Dr. Wheeler has also 

 done much work in this family, both by himself alone, and 

 also in collaboration with Mr. Melander. 



* Both species of Hemaris occured commonly, resting on the upper 

 surface of the leaves of the bracken fern, Pteris aquilina. They rested 

 so quietly tiiat they could be picked up with the fingers. 



