[August 1883. BULLETIN BROOKLYN ENTOM. SOC. VOL. IV. 45 
| The following genera of esperzdae were accidentally omitted from 
the Synopsis and the omission was not discovered until too late to insert in 
 taeir proper place in the table ; the characters here given will I hope enable 
students to recognize them. 
Achylodes has the family characters but differs from all other American genera in 
the wing form which is regular ; the primaries are acute, pointed, emarginate beneath 
tip ; the secondaries are subangulate. Antennze long and slender, club elongate curved, 
tip acute, slightly recurved. 
Pyrrhopyga. Body very robust, wings small, head and tail often clothed with 
orange scales. Head large, palpi convex, closely appressed to front, terminal joint 
minute. Antennze short thick, terminated by a curved robust-club, obtuse at tip. Wing 
form of Hudamus. 
Erycides differs from the preceeding only by the slender hooked termination. of 
the anteunze ; wing form of Pamphila. 
The two last mentioned genera closely resemble Hudamus in their 
superficial appearance and in all essential structural characters ; the prim- 
aries however are a little more pointed and the insects are a little more 
“rakish” in appearance. 
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Olla Podrida. 
By W. J. Holland, D. D. 
When at Berkeley Springs, last summer, I found a larva of Cithero- 
mia sepulchrahs, feeding on the scrub-pine. I placed it in a tin box 
plentifully sujplied with provender, and carried it with me wa Wash- 
ington to the White Sulphur Springs. It made its last moult there 
and continued to feed. About the time I was ready to leave, it 
showed a disposition to pupate. I took a small box and filled it with 
clay and moulded in it a cell large enough to accommodate his majesty. 
I covered the cell with a layer of clay, leaving a hole in the top for pur- 
pose of inspection, and wrapping it all up in cotton carried it with me; my 
route was to Indianapolis, via Cincinnati. At Lexington, Ky., I took a peep 
into the box. ‘The insect seemed comfortable. On reaching the hotel 
where I spent a day in Cincinnati. I found to my delight that there was 
a Chrysalis, green in color, and perfect in form in the cell, By night it 
had became black, and hard. A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure 
of seeing a perfect moth emerge. I venture to suggest this is the first 
larva of Crtheronia sepulchrahs that has pupated on an express train. And 
I commend my plan of helping nature to those who may be travelling and 
who may chance to find the larvee of rare moths which transform in the 
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