Nov., '03] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 285 



seventy eggs, which hatched in ten days, producing larvae 

 which very much resembled those of regalis except in their 

 color, which was orange and black at first, but changed to 

 light tan and black after a few hours feeding. 



Some of the eggs did not hatch, and with the ones that did 

 I had very poor luck ; only one reached the last stage, and it 

 died before pupating. When first hatched I tried them on 

 white pine, which they ate but did not seem to like particu- 

 larly. I finally gave them pitch pine to which they took natu- 

 rally, and for three or four weeks grew beautifully ; but in un- 

 dergoing the last molt trouble commenced, and thej^ began to 

 die without any apparent provocation. Within a few hours 

 after death they were reduced to an evil- smelling semi-liquid 

 state, and a very light touch would cause the skin to break 

 and fall apart. I can offer no explanation of this, as they 

 seemed perfectly healthy and contented up to twenty-four 

 hours before death. 



About the second week in September, I found two mature 

 sepulcralis larvae feeding on pitch pine in a grove just north 

 of the city, and later found one on yellow pine. They are of 

 a rather peculiar color, shading from yellowish to purplish 

 brown, and being much wrinkled and humped. The thoracic 

 segments and the dorsum of the eleventh segment contain long 

 yellowish horns, and there are also subdorsal, sublateral and 

 substigmatal rows of spines. They are high feeders usually 

 and, unless feeding in a bunch of needles, are hard to see ; as, 

 when on a limb, they very much resemble a piece of loose 

 bark. 



Up to July, 1902, I had never heard of sepulcralis being 

 taken in Pennsylvania ; but it may be quite local, as pitch 

 pine {Finns rigida) and yellow pine {Pijius mitis), on which 

 it feeds, are both quite abundant in this locality. 



Williamsport, Lycoming County, is within seventy miles of 

 the northern border of Pennsylvania, so that it is quite a gain 

 over Washington, D. C, for a northern range for sepulcralis ; 

 and possibly it may be found still farther north than Penn- 

 sylvania.* 



*See Ent. News., 1890, p. 124, and 1892, p. 232. — Eds. 



