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colored pencils, and as Harris himself allows 

 does not agree with Abbott's figure of the larva 

 of tesRellaris, although, as he very candidly re- 

 marks, ''the moth is the same " (p. 291). To 

 the moth produced from the larva with orange- 

 colored pencils that feeds exclusively on the 

 buttonwood or sycamore, whereas the other one 

 feeds on a great variety of different trees, the 

 name oi Ilarrisii has been given by the Senior 

 Editor. Singular to relate, different as the larvffi 

 are, and different as are their foodplants, the 

 moths are absolutely undistinguishable. 



P. 298. Two very distinct larvae are here de- 

 scribed xmAer Bri/ocampa pellucida. The first 

 is probably that of Dr. rubicunda, which feeds 

 oil maple. The second is the same as that de- 

 scribed under the name of Dr. bicolori in Proe. 

 Ent. Soc. Phila., III. pp. 425-6, and may or may 

 net be the true pellucida. 



V. 299. Oiketicus coniferarum, Ilarr. MS. 

 (Plate III. Fig. 4) is Thyridopteryx ejihemerw- 

 formis, Ilaw. See p. 122 and pp. 242-4. 



P. 307. Astasia = Paraihyris = Apatelodes 

 Packard. 



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 cabinet of Sir Jos. Banks," as is manifest at 

 once from the last paragraph but one on page 

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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Cannibal Mites— C. S. Davis, Decatur, Jlh.— The 

 elongate-ov.il eggs found under the surface of the 

 earth are those of some hirge CJnisshopper— perhaps the 



Carolina r.nis^hop|i-r I. /."'■, ;, ..,/,,,. ;i ,,,•. -p,- 

 cies with tlu- hin.l ■• ii.j- '' ' i. ;, v.:->, , . in . '..ivd 

 border. The vrhr: : i;, ■ ^ ., ;h of 



^.•l^ lilt,!-, -till- one withal. The allied genus {£ri/- 

 tL.fN,:), tn whi.'h the .so-called "Red Spider" of the 

 gardeners and greenhouse men belongs. Is not a canni- 

 bal, but a plant feeding group. 



Gnats - TK 0. Hhley, Minneapolis, Minn. — The, 

 vp,.,.i„„.„ s.-iit is. as ynu supposed, not a Mosquito 



(' ' ' ' I'lii I i.iKit ( r'/;/v./?-.„,/,,o, 'I'll,, latter may lie 



•Jir f. 



MlH.i 



butli 



enormous clouds tliat 

 tanee for smoke issu 

 supposed to be on liri 

 Cut-^rornis severing- Cabbaffc Plants— X C. 



Burch, Jefferson <Jity, Mo. — Tin .i:ii k jk i-\ -looking cut- 

 worms with a dull llesh-colo, , .| , , i, ii;ive sev- 

 ered so many of your cabl. a. ■ ;■ just above 

 aud others just below tlic - :: round— are 

 thclarvsof theLaiirr i:ii-iic , . . IlaiTis). 



This worm has been call.. I ■ ; ai-uoiaii bv 



the Junior Editor, and ail i . iili it- ti'aiis"- 



formationsmay be fouiul ill 111- ; u-, \ iiiiuai K.-iiort," ' 

 pp. 80 — 81, aceompauicd with li^iiics oi lUt- uioih. 



Beetle named—./. M. Sliaffer, Fairfield, Iowa.— 

 The beetles which you send and which were flying 

 about in great numbers on the 4th of May, are the 

 AnisoJacti/las baliiiiwriensis, Say. 



Tigrer Beetles—/. M. Shaffer, Fairfield, Iowa.— 

 The second lot of beetles which you send, and which 

 you found "flying and lighting on the low dry soil in a 

 ravine, through which a small creek p.assed, and which 

 was much frequented by cows, ' ' are the common Tiger 

 Beetle, Cicindela iidgaria. Say. 



Gigantic Water Bus-/;. A. A. X;,-J,„l.., ir....N 

 field, A\ r.— The large bi-o\Mi ilaii-ia -I in-ri \\ hirli 



'you "found era wUng on tli< :. ,.;-.■- 



barn," is the Gigantic lirl 



Linn.) spoken of on page llwin m.-.n in --. i:. Muii- 

 ford of Princeton, Ind. 



note CricUcts—T/Mtnas IV. Gordon, Georgetown. 

 Oliio.— The Mole Cricket which you send is one of i 



)f these insects describes tlu-ee N. A. species of which 

 e. boreal is has the most extended range. 



