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Dendryphantes octavas Hentz. 

 Alius oclavus Hentz. 



Dendryphantes capitatas (Hentz) Peck, not Hentz. 



Alius parvus (Hentz) Peck, not Hentj; Alius cestivalis Peck. 

 The common spider described and figured by Hentz as Alius 

 oclavus is certainly not an £rzs, and I have no doubt but that it 

 is what has been described by Peckham as Alius capilalus, of 

 which he makes Alius parvus the female. The latter is either an 

 Eris or Zygoballus, probably the latter, and may even be Z. 

 bellinii Peck. I see no reason for considering- Alius capilalus 

 Hentz as the male of what Peckham describes as such, the mark- 

 ings of the cephalothorax are certainly different, and the differ- 

 ence in size is enormous. Moreover, Hentz did not give Alius 

 parvus as common, while he does state so of Alius oclavus. 

 Nearly all the specimens of this species which I have seen from 

 the South appear as Hentz figures Alius octavtis. 



NOTES ON THE EARLIER STAGES OF LEPISESIA 



FLAVOFASCIATA Bamst. 



By Carl Braun, Bangor, Me. 



On Memorial Day 1888, at 4 p.m., when returning from a bog 

 five miles distant from this city, where I had spent the day col- 

 lecting Chionobas julla and other rare lepidoptera, by the edge 

 of a clump of woods near home, my attention was called to a 

 bumble-bee-like creature which was fluttering among the violets 

 just in blossom in order to obtain some honey as I thought. Its 

 flight seemed to me peculiar, and by observing it closer I saw at 

 once that it w-as not a large bee, but a small Macroglossa. Hav- 

 ing my net at hand I caught it at once, and found, after bottling 

 it, that it was a L. flavofasciala, which species I had often before 

 admired in the collection of Prof C. H. Fernald, then at the 

 State College in Orono, Me. After the Insect had become 

 quieted I took it from the bottle immediately and examining it 

 closer found that it was a $ . In the hope of obtaining ova from 

 this exceedingly rare and desirable species, I quickly put it into 

 a small paper-box with perforated bottom and glass top. These 

 boxes I always carry with me on my collecting trips to keep fe- 

 males from which I desire to obtain ova. I carried the box care- 



