8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan. 



EGG-LAYING OF TERIAS LISA. 



The female Terias lisa deposits its eggs in a very systematic 

 and uniform manner. It moves about in a fluttering way so 

 characteristic of butterflies when ovipositing, and lights on the 

 tip of the leaf Cassia nictitans, facing toward the stalk of the 

 plant and walks up the leaf until the end of the abdomen is mid- 

 way between the end of the leaf and its junction with the main 

 stem and then deposits the ^•g^ on the upperside of the stem or 

 mid-rib that runs between the leaflets. It moves with great care 

 and precision, as though such nicety were very necessary. The 

 ^%<g is thus placed at what might be called the exact centre of the 

 leaf There seems undoubtedly to be design in this, as the eggs 

 are exceedingly frail and delicate, and if deposited on the leaflets 

 they would probably be injured or crushed when they close up 

 tight at night. I did not notice whether the eggs were placed 

 between the junctures of two sets of leaflets on either side, but I 

 think such was the case. When the females are confined over 

 the plant the eggs are scattered about indiscriminately either on 

 the Cassia, or anything else near it. They were found oviposit- 

 ing here in the last week of August, and at Westville, N. J., in 

 September. 



THE FIRST STAGES OF PAMPHILA PANOQUIN. 



August 22d, Paviphila panoquin was exceedingly abundant on 

 the meadows flying about and feeding on the flowers of Statice. 

 They were fine, bright specimens. This species does not seem to 

 have as much of the jerky flight as most species of the genus, 

 but flies generally in a straight line. It is readily caught when 

 feeding on the blue flowers, which attract it greatly, but when in 

 the net is exasperatingly restless, and usually manages to denude 

 its thorax of hair. A female deposited a few eggs in the paper in 

 which it was confined, not having been pinched hard enough to 

 cause immediate death. One hatched August 27th, and the 

 young larva was about one-eighth inch in length and was different 

 from any Hesperid larva I had ever seen in being cream-white in 

 color. Under the microscope it showed six or eight small point- 

 like warts on each segment. The head was of a light coffee color 

 darker toward the front. It entirely devoured the egg shell. 

 The eggs were of the usual form in the genus and of a pale greenish 

 white color, I tried to rear it on lawn grass, which it absolutely 



