April, 1917 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 47 



first finding a suitable food plant in a wild mustard that grows in dense 

 thickets to a height of ten feet or more and the latter on beans so exten- 

 sively cultivated in southern California. Very common among the moths 

 were Apantesis proxima var. autholea and Ctenucha brunnea. Many in- 

 teresting forms of Noctuidae and Geometridas were shown. 



Cychrus pyrsolepis Lee. in vol. XI, p. 90, and in Index should read 



Adelocera pyrsolepis Lee. 



Sphinx chersis in vol. XL, p. 91, read "rarely taken of Long Island." 

 Cicindela strigosa, vol. XI, p. 92, and in Index : Read " Cicindela striga, 



captured by Jacob Doll, specimen now in the Brooklyn Museum." 



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