IGICAL NEWS. 83 
‘ENT wings, colored or uncolored, detached from the body 
be placed between two lantern slide covers and used as 
few minute drops of glue serving to hold the wings in 
lettering can be put on bits of Dennison’s adhesive 
je binding them together in the usual way.—P. P. Cacvert. 
cons 1m Wisconsin —The small vilage of Oostburg canbe 
map forty-two miles north of Milwaukee and ten miles 
0 apap Aredia Teabay Wisconsin. On July 27, 1898, 
out on my usual night trip to catch moths near the woods, where 
i some tree-stems. Hundreds of insects appeared, of different 
one was a very large one. Waiting for a favorable opportu- 
ike with my net, I was rewarded with an almost perfect female 
the night of July 22, 1907, I imagined that two bats were flying near 
r id trees for the purpose of devouring the moths which covered 
Directing the red light of the bicyele-lamp toward the 
ystems, I saw a male and female Areéus odore feasting on the sweet 
29 id provided. I caught the female that same night and July 24th I 
Mure Both specimens are almost perfect. On the night 
As it did not appear within a week | took the 
« it had deposited two hundred or more eggs, scat- 
over the inside of box and screen. The eggs are of the size of 
color, and round. About fourteen days after 
the larva emerged. [ did not know the food-plant 
my sorrow, al! died of inanition. 
Ere Brains exlore doce teeed tn thie 
Re cg care are chenetpartect and 
If they are’ stragglers from the South, could it be pos- 
arrive here in sucha good condition? In making the 
the South they were certainly liable to be killed by 
wks or other enemies before they ever reached this 
}. W. Holland writes me that the larvez feed on 
y 
Jo not some of the readers of the News know of another food-plant 
, the larve of the Erebus odora take? 
; i testsaiber’, seey, f coughta female Erianyis elle 08 the flowers 
of the petunia. This insect likely was a straggler from the South, and 
led apd eames 
Twill be to hear from readers of the News any opinions and ex- 
fences with regard to Aredus odora, and | would like to know if those 
tts breed also in our northern climate.—Ep. Was, M.D., Oostburg, 
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