154 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 
But the above is seen to differ in this, that the hind wings are black 
from base to yellow band beyond the cell, while in all the others named 
the color of that section of the wing is yellow. Also, the body is black 
spotted with yellow, in longitudinal lines, as in Asterias, while in the 
before named species the wings are black with yellow stripes, not spots. 
There are other differences, but these are enough to mention. 
The yellow spots of Brevicauda are replaced with fulvous to a- 
remarkable extent, but that peculiarity is not unusual in the group, nor in 
the Asterias group. These specimens from Anticosti differ greatly in this 
respect, though in all I have seen the fulvous is confined to the lower side. 
They also differ in length of tail, though the longest is short compared. 
with the average Asterias. Yours truly, 
W. H. Epwarbs. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
TENT CATERPILLARS ( Clisiocampa ).—These pests were very numerous: 
here this season, swarming on the trees of both orchard and forest. I 
observed one Thorn tree on Montreal Mountain that had been completely 
stripped of its leaves by them, leaving nothing but a few old webs that 
one might fancy were banners left to mark the path of a victorious army. 
A little farther on I found another horde encamped upon two Thorn trees. 
that were growing one on each side of a large rock; not finding the 
leaves of the tree on which their parent had‘placed them to their taste, 
they made a path across the rock to the tree at the other side, and upon 
which they climbed by two or three leaves that rested against the edge of 
the rock. Now, if it had not been for the leaves touching the rock the 
caterpillars would have had to crawl down one tree and up the other 
whenever they needed food, and their instinct seemed to have taught them 
so, for although the whole nestful of hungry caterpillars crossed the leaves 
every time they went to feed, not one of them attempted to eat their 
bridge, but passed farther on before commencing their meal. In former 
seasons any of these caterpillars that I observed spinning up, chose the 
shelter of a fence or crevices in bark or some such place to make their 
cocoons in, but this season I found them rolling up leaves and making 
their cocoons inside them, and in some cases I found two cocoons in the 
same leaf. I found them spun up in almost every kind of leaf, Linden, 
