726 General Notes. 
romance, but it contains very little about Linnzeus, and still less 
about botany.——-Dr. Parry’s paper on Chorizanthe, consisti 
of a revision and rearrangement of the annual species, first pub- 
lished in the Proceeding of the Davenport Academy of Sci- 
ences, has been republished in pamphlet form. It isa contribution 
of great value. 
ENTOMOLOGY. 
THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF Nota.—The position of the genus 
Nola has long been an uncertain one. By some of the older 
authors, notably Hübner, the species were placed among the Py- 
ralidz, and Stainton in his Manual of British Butterflies and Moths 
regards the genus as forming “Family 1x, Nolidæ” under the 
Pyralites, though he says: “ One little group, the Nolide, is by 
many recent authors, and perhaps with reason, referred to the 
Bombycina, being placed with family Lithoside.” The genus 1$ 
[July, A 
Jansen, McClurg & Co., of Chicago. It is a pleasantly written 
now generally placed among the Lithosians. In our Synopsis of 
Bombycidz we omitted to mention it, partly on account of want 
of specimens and partly perhaps from supposing it not to be@ 
true Bombycid. Mr. Grote was the first American author to enu- : 
merate it in his New Check List of North American Moths, 1884, 
and to include it among the Lithosiz. 
Having reared Wola ovilla, my attention has again been drawn 
to its systematic position, which seems without much doubt to be 
z. ¢., ten abdominal legs in all. 
Nhen I first discovered the larva of Nola ovilla I supposed t 
to be near Crocota. It was found to be common on the 
leaves of 
pairs of well developed abdominal feet ; the first pair being situ: 
ated on the fourth abdominal segment. The head is p 
large, three-fourths as wide as the body; black, with a le 
irregular lines. The body is dirty-whitish, with a ppo other 4 
dorsal line, a dark dorsal discoloration behind the head, 
in the middle of the body, and a third near the end. sgi 
The body is hairy, though not densely so; on each bat: 
are four dorsal tubercles from which radiate short daa iatea 
on the side is a larger and longer tubercle from which ne black 
very long hairs, being as long as the body is broad; s0 and most 
hairs are mixed with the dirty-whitish ones. The wga small- 
of the shorter hairs are simple, not barbed, but the short 
est hairs are finely though slightly barbed, the barbu 
w paler a 
wh ri kag ts e A 
= eae ata ea rae 
Jes short 
