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they developed four silver-colored horns on the seventh and 

 ninth segments. Before, these were only rudiments resembling 

 large granules. In the last moult many of the granules, as 

 well as the last set of horns on the third segment, and the lines 

 on the anal segment, take on this silvery color. The eight 

 horns on the second and third segments vary from orange to 

 light blue. Along each side they bear a compound sublateral 

 line composed of a yellow and blue stripe running parallel to 

 one another. 



When full grown the caterpillar is about i^ inches in length. 

 Its main distinguishing marks from the hicolor are its greater 

 number of silver horns and yellow granules, and in the lighter 

 color of the eight horns on the second and third segments. 

 Near pupation, the caterpillar burrows and, in the cell it forms, 

 turns into a very dark brown pupa about i^ inches in length 

 and heavy in proportion. The pupa resembles hicolor very 

 closely although it is not so rough on the wing cases. The 

 caterpillar period of bisecta is from 46-50 days. The pupae 

 are very inactive, yet are seldom diseased. The moths emerge 

 in late afternoon or early morning, and may be easily mated in 

 capitivity. They are night flyers and, as all the Ceratocampids, 

 fly very late. 



191 3 as a Catocala Year (Lepid.)« 



By R. R. Rowley and L. Berry, Louisiana, Missouri. 

 In the middle region of the Mississippi valley this has been 

 the best Catocala year since the summers of 1900 and 1901. 

 Like the season of 1900, the past summer was hot and rain- 

 less and a poor one for most butterflies. Even in August, when 

 the Papilios usually are plentiful along the streams, there was 

 an almost entire absence of them about their usual haunts. 

 In June, it is true, the Fritillaries were abundant through the 

 woods and at Asclepias bloom, but that was just as the drought 

 set in, and they were the only butterflies that were abundant 

 here in Pike County, Missouri, in 191 3. There was a great 

 scarcity of the "Little Wood-Satyr," Neonympha eurytris, 



