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We always strongly object to the creation of new genera and species on 



slight differences, and for this reason we are sorry to take exception to what 

 Mr. G-rote says regarding his new species above. 



Mr A. Kcebele found five specimens of this Catocala on white oak from 

 May 2 till May 12. In three of these now before us the median bands differ 

 greatly in width and length, in one it reaches nearby the anterior margin 

 and the color of the surface of the ^primaries is exactly like that of C. eoecin- 

 ata, and not paler. 



We do not like to disagree with so competent an authority on Lepidoptera, 

 as Mr. Grote, and while subsequent captures of this insect may confirm his 

 views, we fail nevertheless, after a careful comparison of his points of spe- 

 cific differences with three of the specimens, to detect sufficient grounds for 

 the formation of a new species. editor. 



(Continued from page 72.) 



The larvae of G-aleritajanus are the most fragile and tender that 

 fell into my hands, the whole body seems always to be empty and 

 even by .a very slight pressure become flat, those of Dicaelus are 

 fat and fleshy, but considerably strong, those of Staphilinus ma- 

 culosus and Leistotrophus cingulatus are hard and horny. 



Besides these larvae I had several others and 1 have used at least 

 200 as food for the specimens I have raised. If it had not been 

 my aim to raise chiefly carabidous larvae, I might have raised also 

 of other families, as I saw many larvae of small Staphilinidae, My- 

 cetophagidae, Dacne heros, Bolitotherus cornutus, etc. in the 

 tree fungi, and of Elatridae, Cerambycidse etc., in decaying wood. 



I found also while digging near a decaying stump of a tree, one 

 to two feet below the surface, a very large number of Pkenolia 

 grossa, Fab., in the larva, pupa and imago state, the pupae imbed- 

 ded in oblong holes ; then I found under the bark of a fallen tree a 

 number of Iarvas, similar to those of Trichius confinis in cylin- 

 drical cases made of some green leaves, oval at one end and flat 

 at the other. 



I sjmnkied every day a few drops of water over the larvae and 

 placed them for about an hour in the open air. 



V. G. SCHAUPP. 



