24 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February, 



tinct border at the edge of all four wings. Subsequently, we 

 tried other localities, but never had much luck; therefore, we 

 finally went nowhere else; thus the following list shows what can 

 be done in a single secluded, well-lighted spot near foliage, in 

 the heart of a great city. I will mention the number taken when 

 the insect is rare, or when only a few were captured. Of the 

 others we took, or refused quantities, except of Geometridae. 



SPHINGID^. 



Of Sphingidae we never took a specimen till after ten o'clock. 

 Thyreus Abbottii, two males; Deilephila lineaia, one male; Phi- 

 laynpelus achemon, one male. Of this beautiful species I saw 

 another specimen, but failed to get it. It alighted on a tree, and 

 after climbing I saw no chance to get it in my net. I returned 

 to the ground and took a bottle, but though I was most careful 

 in trying to place the bottle over him, he dropped between the 

 leaves and was seen no more. This lesson, however, proved of 

 value, and later I secured a valuable insect under similar cir(ium- 

 stances as will be told. Everyx 7nyro7i, three males and one 

 female; Smermthus geminatus, two males; Calasynibolus {Smer- 

 inthus) viyops, three pairs; Ceratomia amyntor, eight males; J)a- 

 renima iindtilosa, one pair; Phlegethontius Carolina, eight males 

 and two females. One of these males is the valuable insect to 

 which I referred. It is wood-brown, about the same shade as 

 Ceratomia amyntor. Mr. Henry Edwards tells me that there is 

 an insect in South America exactly like my specimen, which is 

 counted a species, but which he has thought to be but a variety 

 of S. Carolina, hence the extreme interest in finding this light 

 variety in this latitude. This was at rest in the tree, as was the 

 other which I lost. Profiting by experience, I took it with my 

 fingers, thumb and finger above and below the thorax. It is only 

 slightly ruffled on the upper side and not noticeable. Phlege- 

 thontius celetis, two males; Sphiyix drupiferartcm, one female; 

 Sphinx kalmice, one male. Total, 40; not bad, I think, for late 

 night hunting. 



ZYGJE^IBM. 



Alypia octomaculata, two pairs; Eudryas grata, three pairs; 

 Scepsis fulvicollis. 



BOMBYCES. — Arctia nais, one male and one female; Arctia 

 arge, one pair; Pyrrharctia Isabella. From a lot of these I have 



