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Philadelphia, Pa., November, 1897. 



PHYSIOLOGICAL SPECIES. 

 While strolling along the shore of the historic Delaware, 

 near where it flows into the mighty Atlantic we heard the voice (?) 

 of a Cicada singing (?). The tune was strange and visions of a 

 n. sp. flitted through our cerebrum as nothing is impossible in 

 Jersey. A mighty effort was made to snare the gentleman and 

 it was crowned with success, but keen was our disappointment 

 to find him, anatomically, only C. iibicen. Did he have bron- 

 chitis? how could he in his kettle-drum? Are we justified in 

 describing him as new and naming him after a diva ? Who can 

 tell ? perhaps Prof. Cockerell. What a field for those who have 

 exhausted geographical and seasonal variations and tackle physio- 

 logical species. We had dreamt of such things, but thought 

 they were the baseless fabrics of visions only. We are ready to 

 be enlightened on this subject as we are not afflicted with megalo- 

 cephalitis, but are open to conviction. 



An Additional Note. — On page 274, of vol. vii, I made a note of a 

 curious habit of Catocala concuntbens in selecting a resting place of such 

 a color that they almost defied detection. This last year the telephone 

 posts put up a year ago have become storm worm, and are now of a color 

 nearly like the old poles. This year I find the Catocalas abundant on 

 both the old and the new poles. I took fifty-three specimens one after- 

 noon, forty-nine of which were concutnbens and the rest cara. Most of 

 these were badly rubbed and broken, due to the wet weather. — Edward 

 WiNSLow Cross. 



