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448 Forty-sixth Report on tee State Museum 



Owl Beetle. (Country Gentleman, for July 18, 1872, xxxvii, p. 

 456, c. 1 — 9 cm.) 



The ^Zaws ocwZahts identified, with description and habits, and mention 

 of the frequent occurrence of its larva in old apple-trees. 



Revision of Some of the American Butterflies. (American 

 IS'aturalist, vi, 1872, pp. 354-359.) 



Review of a publication under the above title, published by Samuel H, 

 Scudder, in the Report of the Peabody Academy of Science for 1871, 

 pp. 24-82. 



Biography of Hemileuca Maia (Dkury). (Entomological Contri- 

 butions, 1872, pp. 5-21, pi. 2, figs. 1-3. Twenty-third Annual 

 Eeport on the ^. Y. State Cabinet of ^N'atural History, for the 

 year 1869. 1873, pp. 137-153.) Also in the Swiss Cross, for 

 April, 1887, i, pp. 135-139, figs. 1-3. 



Presents the life-history of this Bombycid moth under the following sub- 

 heads: the e^g; egg-belt; egg-cement; oviposition; hibernation; hatching; 

 egg-shell; young larva; first molt; second molt; third molt; sting of larva; 

 fourth molt; fifth molt; mature larva; food-plants; parasites; pupation; the 

 pupa; imago; metamorphoses; discrepancies; rarity; habits ol the imago; 

 geographical range; synonymy; additional note on pupation, etc. : an inter- 

 esting variety of the moth. 



Observations on Melitaea Phaeton (Fabr.). (Entomological Con- 

 tributions, 1872, pp. 22-25. Twenty-third Keport on the N. Y. 

 State Cabinet of J^atural History, for the year 1869. 1873, 

 pp. 154-157.) 



Rarity of the species; eggs obtained from a female described; death of the 

 larvae after preparing for hibernation; fatality attendant on hibernation; 

 Chelone glabra, the food-plant; the insect confined to a very small area at 

 Center, N. Y. ; other locaUties for it; the genus Melitcea, with the exception 

 of P/iaef on, confined to west of the Mississippi river; seventeen species 

 known according to Edwards [now increased to thirty-seven], 



Notes on Melitaea i^ycteis (Doubl.). (Entomological Contribu- 

 tions, 1872, pp. 26, 27, Rfs;. 14 of pi. 8. Twenty-third Eeport 

 on the JST. Y. State Cabinet^ of jlS'atural History, 1873, pp. 

 158, 159.) 



Larvae 'found feeding on Helianthus divarieatus L. are described, and 

 after a subsequent molt and at maturity: the chrysalis is described and fig- 

 ured. Another colony taken from the same food-plant were carried through 

 two molts, after which they became lethargic and died before hibernation. 

 Note on its abundance at Center, N. Y. , and absence from other neighboring 

 localities. 



