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In the September number of Ento.mological News I find the follow- 

 ing: " atheroma sepulcra/is IS ioxxnd horn Pennsylvania southward." It 

 may be interesting, therefore, for me to report that my friend, Mr. David 

 W. Perkins, of Manchester, N. H., took four specimens of this moth in 

 1890 in that city, and again captured two this season. Of the six, two 

 were females. They were taken in early morning resting on white houses 

 near electric light poles. — R. Ottolengui, New York. 



Thy. Poweshiek. — Female caught and confined July 25th. Within 

 two days twelve eggs were laid. The eggs are smooth, shiny, in color a 

 light green. They are hemispherical in shape, with the edges of the base 

 rounded. By the aid of a medium powered microscope a slight depres- 

 sion can be seen at the apex; size is about two-thirds that of egg of P. 

 manaataqiia. Larva hatched Jul}' 28th. Head of young larva is large, 

 prominent, light brown in color. Body is light yellow sprinkled with a 

 few scattering hairs. Hairs on thirteenth segment very prominent. On 

 each side of the back is an irregular row of fine dark points. Each seg- 

 ment contains four. The two near the front of segment nearear together 

 than those of the back. — Henry G. Willard, Grinnell, Iowa. 



Venturesome Butterflies. — During the present season I have been 

 quite struck by the actions of two species of butterflies. The first, Py- 

 rameis atalanta L. was observed to appear singly in the small, shady 

 lawn in front of my house, usually about 4.30 to 5 p.m. Whether the same 

 individual appeared each day, or whether there were several similarly 

 inclined, I am unable to say, but only on one occasion did more than one 

 individual appear on the same day. They, or it as the case may be, 

 seemed to be entirely devoid of fear, flitting about, alighting sometimes 

 on my shoulder, or often on my book as I sat reading. If driven off it 

 would return, either to its former position on the back of my chair, or, 

 more than once, alighting on the heads of my two little sons, aged seven 

 and three years, as they were at play, much to their astonishment, and, 

 in the case of the younger, consternation. 



