May, ’08) ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 197 
irectly beneath discal mark is a prominent black dash. 
P- palpate has long palpi, extra discal line always rounded 
w costa never angulated in the series of 60 specimens which 
have compared and lacks the black line on inner margin and 
ont two-thirds as large as duteata. Now that we know all 
ypes which we did not before and found /uteata labels in 
ard’s handwriting on palpata types at Albany, I think we 
ve good grounds for knowing that Packard confused the 
Species and that they should be listed as separate spe- 
This in no way effects the previous excellent articles 
Mr. Grossbeck and Dr. Taylor but confirms their statements 
tles the standing of palpata by finding the missing types 
t Albany. It is strange the older authors did not know this 
‘ as it seems to be very common, extending from north- 
to Pennsylvania and is not variable. 
iieinls and Maryland notes on the Catalpa 
_ Sphinx, Ceratomia catalpae Boisduval. 
By A. Arsene Grrautr. 
on © caterpillars of this species were very abundant and in- 
ju in 1904 to catalpa trees (Catalpa species) lining some 
Ss cece on to be very ax On certain streets 
he { ey became so abundant as to be very annoying to pedestrians. 
of the season of 1904, I made tentative observations on 
j¢ insect and these form more or less of an outline of the 
history of the species for that locality. Some addi- 
notes are also submitted from southwest Virginia, and 
At Paris, Texas, on the 28th of June, 1904, it was noted that 
‘injury to the catalpa trees was noticeable and that the frass 
from the caterpillars made a noise like dropping rain. On 
the 13th of August, the caterpillars were so numerous on a 
row of catalpa trees on one side of east Lamar Avenue, that 
‘their frass covered the sidewalks beneath the infested trees for 
—— blocks, and the continual dropping of it sounded very 
‘much like rain pattering on dead leaves in a forest; at this 
ne, the pattering noise was much more noticeable than in 
