[Se embe A 
From the 4th to the middle of September the caterpillars mad, 
between the twigs, a loose, slight, open cocoon of bits of smal 
twigs and leaves, held together by silk, within which the pupa 
934 General Notes. 
rested through the winter. 
being spotted with black. In another specimen the wing. covers 
were red and the body, including abdomen, horn-colored; the ter- 
minal spine is short, moderately stout, with eight unequal curved | 
slender spinules. Length g-10™™ ee) 
Walsh's description of the larva of Aplodes mimosaria, whith 
he bred from the oak, is too brief for comparison, but our spec 
mens do not disagree with his diagnosis, though we have neve | 
found it on the oak, but frequently on the coniferous MAE 
tioned. 
smaller; compared with one of the latter the hind wings uror l 
angulated, while the outer white line on the same wings’ of 
bent in the middle. The lines on the fore wings are ere 
mimosaria, but vary in distance apart. The head and abe ie 
“are marked as in A. mimosaria ; the male hind tibie are 4 p 4 
species. It differs decidedly from the two other species ies 
size, A, approximaria and Jatiaria. s wil 
On sending specimens to Mr. J. A. Lintner, to prac 
his types of the species in his possession, he kindly wie" 
follows : + vo being 
_ “Differs from smimbsaria in the outer line of front ih? n the 
‘nearer to the margin, and the inner line being angulate’ es ® 
submedian instead of curved. The outer line of secon re 
nearer to the margin than in mimosaria, and is more regut ot 
“ It approaches nearer to /atiaria, but the two mee subme 
‘approximate, and the inner line is more angulated on the alia 
dian. It also has an inner line on the secondaries which 4° 7 
not,” 
hite 
en 
wider than the segment behind, rounded, rather deep cig 
Endropia textrinaria—The caterpillar was found on 
