DG! NEWS. 1m5 
Notes on Catocala. 
_R. R. Rowtey, Louisiana, Mo.” 
vc SA Tiisesis teteacy beesn on the aard of March, 
a batch of eggs of C. wnijuga that I had received from 
C Lonard of Kear J., began hatching prema- 
fompted, no doubt, by the unusually warm weather that 
from the 20th to the 28th, the thermometer rang- 
or week frm 80 to 90 degre A few tender leaflings 
their winter coverings in anticipation of an early 
. Eile Gaenn $0, grief tm the protracted cold weather that 
J me to the utmost to get food for the hungry young 
s” and I was compelled to keep a fire going in the 
*” from the last of March to the 8th of May to save 
h neues arve are very slender, spen-worm- 
large, almost black heacs. 
Th ee  aeacs, cach, Sve days from 
chit and the caterpillars changed to black with a cream- 
middorsal band and an almost white ventral side with 
fc (i  patealeapeaaligrmaregiin 
Sth and 6th of April the larve moulted the second 
raching a length of three-fourths of an inch with sides 
E, mottled with a lighter color. The middorsal line, light, 
and with a rather large spot of the same color on the 
; at beyond the third pair of true legs and another above 
i second pair of prolegs. The venter, cream color. A dorsal 
Ria, shied catr of proiees 
« | the 10th of April the third moult occurred, with the 
a nearly an inch long, brownish and grayish in irregular 
s. The dorsal cream colored line reduced to small sep- 
i sausage-link-like spots, not very distinct. 
nt the 16th of April, the larva 
being a light gray with dorsal hump and dark spot over inter- 
ace between the 3rd and 4th pairs of prolegs, with a white 
