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cage: the slightly attached wing-scales in this and allied species: the species 

 abroad. 



[Now known as Hemaris difffnis (Boisd.)-] 



Transformations of Sesia Buffaloensis Gr.-Kob. (Twenty-fourth 

 Annual Keport on the N. Y. State Museum of Natural 

 History, for the year 1870 : 1872, pp. 112, 113. Entomological 

 Contributions — iSo. 11, 1872, pp. 8, 9. Also in Transactions of 

 the American Entomological Society, xv, 1>88, p. 105.) 



Descriptions of the egg and of the larva in its five stages (four molts), of its 

 cocoon, and its pupation. The eggs and larva were found on the snowball, 

 Viburnum opuliis. 



[Now generally known as Hemaris Buffaloensis (Gr.-Rob.).] 



On the Larva and Pupa of Thyreus Abbotii Swainson. (Twenty- 

 fourth Annual Keport on the N. Y. State Museum of IN'atural 

 History, for the year 1870 : 1872, pp. 111-116. Entomological 

 Contributions— :N^o. II, 1872, pp. 10-12.) 



The "male " and " female '' larvae and the pupa are described, with refer- 

 ence to marked variations in the larva^ of Deilephila lineata ; and remarks 

 on the pupation of T. Abbotii occurring either above or below the surface of 

 the ground. 



[The two forms of this larva have since been shown to be simply dimorphic 

 and not, as for a long time supposed, sexual.] 



On the Larva of Philampelus Achemon (Drury). (Twenty-fourth 

 Annual Report on the N. Y. State Museum of Natural History, 

 for the year 1870: 1872, p]). 117, 118. Entomological Contri- 

 butions — ISTo. II, 1872, pp. 13, 14.) 



Description of the egg, the young larva, the larva after each of its four 

 molts, and at maturity. 



Smerinthus geminatus Say and its Supposed Varieties. (Twenty- 

 fourth Annual Report on the N. Y. State Museum of x^atural 

 History, for the year 1870: 1872, pp. 119-127. Entomological 

 Contributions — No. II, 1872, pp. 15-23.) 



Description of the egg and of the larva in its first stage and after its first, 

 second and third molts (the usual fourth molt of the Sphingidse did not occur), 

 and at maturity: notes on the pupation: time passed in the several stages: 

 is double-brooded: a variety bred having but one ocellated spot on the 

 secondaries: the S. Jamaicensis of Drury: S. Cerisyi Kirby believed to be a 

 variety of S. geminatus [since shown to be a good species] : <S. opthalmicus 

 compared with »S\ geminatus and .S'. ocellatus of Europe: bibliography of 

 S. geminatus. 



