﻿[125] 
  Notes 
  on 
  some 
  Lepidoptera. 
  237 
  

  

  single 
  example 
  at 
  Maywood, 
  111., 
  on 
  September 
  15. 
  Mr. 
  

   Thaxter, 
  in 
  his 
  List 
  {Psyche, 
  II, 
  p. 
  36), 
  mentions 
  it 
  as 
  rare, 
  at 
  

   light, 
  in 
  Angnst. 
  

  

  The 
  moth 
  is 
  very 
  variable 
  in 
  its 
  features, 
  in 
  the 
  color 
  of 
  its 
  

   wings, 
  form 
  and 
  coloring 
  of 
  its 
  discal 
  spots, 
  etc., 
  or 
  different 
  

   species 
  are 
  included 
  under 
  that 
  name. 
  The 
  varieties 
  which 
  

   Mr. 
  Grote 
  has 
  referred 
  to 
  this 
  species, 
  seem 
  to 
  me 
  to 
  differ 
  too 
  

   much 
  to 
  really 
  constitute 
  a 
  single 
  species. 
  Another 
  season's 
  

   collections 
  may 
  enable 
  us 
  to 
  determine 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  these 
  dif- 
  

   ferences. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Grote 
  has 
  referred, 
  with 
  some 
  doubt, 
  an 
  Agrotis 
  received 
  

   from 
  California, 
  to 
  this 
  species. 
  

  

  Agrotis 
  brunneicollis 
  Grote. 
  (NoctucC) 
  Proc. 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  Phila., 
  

  

  Ill, 
  p. 
  524, 
  pi. 
  5, 
  f. 
  5. 
  1864. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  has 
  been 
  captured 
  for 
  the 
  first 
  time 
  in 
  this 
  dis- 
  

   trict, 
  by 
  Mr. 
  S. 
  C. 
  Waterman, 
  at 
  Ten 
  Eyck's 
  woods, 
  near 
  

   Albany, 
  on 
  the 
  15th 
  of 
  June, 
  1877. 
  An 
  example 
  has 
  also 
  

   been 
  taken 
  at 
  Kenwood 
  during 
  the 
  same 
  month. 
  Mr. 
  Thaxter 
  

   records 
  it 
  among 
  his 
  Newton 
  (Mass.) 
  collections, 
  as 
  rather 
  

   rare, 
  at 
  light, 
  in 
  August. 
  

  

  Cucullia 
  intermedia 
  Speyer. 
  

  

  Several 
  examples 
  of 
  the 
  larva 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  were 
  taken 
  at 
  

   Center, 
  "N. 
  Y., 
  during 
  the 
  last 
  of 
  June 
  and 
  first 
  of 
  July, 
  in 
  

   their 
  second, 
  third 
  and 
  fourth 
  stages, 
  feeding 
  on 
  Mulgedium 
  

   leucophceum, 
  popularly 
  known 
  as 
  false 
  or 
  blue 
  lettuce. 
  

  

  The 
  young 
  larva 
  is 
  striped 
  laterally 
  and 
  dorsally, 
  and 
  bears 
  

   a 
  strong 
  resemblance 
  to 
  that 
  of 
  C. 
  lucifuga 
  in 
  its 
  early 
  stages, 
  

   as 
  described 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Speyer 
  in 
  the 
  Slettiner 
  Entomologische 
  

   Zeitung 
  for 
  1870, 
  and 
  in 
  23rd 
  Rep. 
  St. 
  Mus. 
  Nat 
  Hist, 
  p. 
  

   222.* 
  

  

  I 
  regret 
  that 
  I 
  have 
  only 
  the 
  following 
  brief 
  notes 
  of 
  the 
  ap- 
  

   pearance 
  of 
  the 
  larva 
  — 
  a 
  part 
  of 
  what 
  was 
  intended 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  

   detailed 
  description. 
  " 
  The 
  lateral 
  stripe 
  is 
  white, 
  of 
  about 
  one- 
  

   third 
  the 
  diameter 
  of 
  the 
  body, 
  traversed 
  by 
  a 
  yellow 
  stripe 
  

   of 
  about 
  one-half 
  the 
  breadth 
  of 
  the 
  white, 
  on 
  which 
  are 
  the 
  

  

  * 
  To 
  the 
  kindness 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Speyer 
  I 
  owe 
  it, 
  that 
  the 
  two 
  specimens 
  of 
  the 
  lucifuga 
  larvse' 
  

   prepared 
  by 
  Mr. 
  O. 
  Schreiner 
  of 
  Weimar, 
  Prussia, 
  from 
  which 
  his 
  descriptions 
  above 
  

   referred 
  to 
  are 
  drawn, 
  have 
  place 
  in 
  my 
  collection. 
  The 
  specimens 
  show 
  the 
  life-like 
  

   appearance 
  which 
  may 
  be 
  imparted 
  to 
  larvae 
  when 
  prepared 
  by 
  inflation 
  (see 
  Scudder 
  in 
  

   American 
  Naturalist, 
  vol. 
  viii, 
  p. 
  321), 
  and 
  also 
  illustrate 
  the 
  service 
  which 
  they 
  may 
  ren- 
  

   der 
  in 
  the 
  comparison 
  of 
  forms 
  from 
  widely 
  separated 
  localities 
  and 
  countries. 
  

  

  