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space bright yellow, soiled with black at extreme base; a faint line 

 intersects the black border before its inner edge. Fringes whitish. 

 Beneath, bright yellow at base of both wings, which have black ex- 

 terior broad marginal bands, interrupted at costal. A common black 

 line is hardly differentiated from the marginal bands by a fine streak 

 of pale scales. Fringes pale, interrupted with black on fore wings. 

 Expanse, 20 mil. Colorado, Mr. Tepper and Mr. Neumcegen ; also in 

 my own collection. 



Lygranthoecia rufimedia, n. 8. 



Allied to Me.skeana, but the median lines are even, sinuate, much 

 as in rosei tincta or jaguarina. Fore wings deej^ olivaceous, with the 

 median space washed with bright red. Lines pale. Terminal space 

 shaded with yellow at and below apices, and again at internal angle. 

 Hind wings black, with two yellow spots as in brews. Beneath much 

 as in Meskeaha, the black more diffuse. Body yellowish. Expanse, 

 22 mil. Florida, Mr. Hulst. 



SPILOSOMA (Hyphantiia) TEXTOR, Har. 



In the second number, page 14, of the present volume of the Bul- 

 letin, I find an article by E. L. Graef on the different species of the 

 moths that have been classed under the genus Hyphantria, and his 

 belief from finding intergrades that there is in reality but one species. 



In 1877 I found a nest of the caterpillar of this insect on a young 

 pear-tree, they apparently having just hatched from a single cluster 

 of eggs deposited by a single moth. I took the larvae and fed them 

 on apple leaves till they were ready to pupate. When they emerged 

 from the chrysalids, as they did in great numbers, I found that I had 

 not only the white Textor that Harris speaks of, but those with from 

 one to quite a number of black spots on the fore wings, all from the 

 same brood of caterpillars. I have now a few reared from Asparagus 

 that have more spots than any I have seen elsewhere, but I have, ever 

 since I reared those varied forms spoken of above, referred all to one 

 species, and called that Textor. If Drury's name is older than Har- 

 ris's, then that will probably have the first place. Like Mr. Graef, I 

 have for some time seen no very good reason for a generic distinction 

 between this and Spilosoma. 



G. H. French. 

 Carbondale, ///. 



