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Academy of Sciences. 
A regular meeting of the Academy of Sci- 
ences was held Monday night, February 
18th, at Polytechnic Hall, Dr. Engelmann in 
the chair. 
Judge Holmes, the Corresponding Secre- 
tary, submitted letters from various points, 
among them one from J. Cockrell, of Raven- 
na, Ills., offering to furnish the Academy 
with an account of the ancient mounds in 
that neighborhood. Judge Holmes also laid 
before the Academy various society publica- 
tions from all parts of the world. 
Dr. Engelmann handed in a contribution 
of lead and iron ore specimens from the 
mines of Madison County, Mo., on the banks 
of the St. Francis River. They were a gift 
to the Society from Mr. ¥m. Einstein. 
Mr. Collett laid before the Society what 
had been handed to him as a petrified potato. 
Judge Holmes submitted a brief review of 
a recent report of the Curator of the French 
Academy of Anthropology. 
Mr. Collett brought to notice some of the 
common errors of closet naturalists, who 
drew their information from books and not 
from nature. 
Dr. Khmer read a paper on the Menobran- 
chus, which include the family of water 
lizards. He submitted to the notice of the 
members two specimens from the Mississip- 
pi River, one alive and the other preserved 
in spirits, calling attention to their peculiar- 
ities and differences. 
Prof. Nipher of the Washington University, 
gave the results of his experiments in ascer- 
taining the rainfall on roofs, making clear 
the results of his efforts by the aid of charts. 
Mi*. M. W. Leffingwell was elected a mem- 
ber of the Academy, following which the 
meeting adjourned. 
To Correspondants. 
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be accompanied by the name of the author, 
not necessarily for publication, but as evi- 
dence of good faith on the part of the writer. 
Write only on one side of the paper. Be par- 
ticularly careful to write the scientific names 
plain 
Articles for publication may be accompa- 
nied with small sketches or outlines of 
insects, plants or leaves, etc., which we will 
have engraved for publication. All contribu- 
tions should be sent to us two weeks before 
publication day, which is understood to be 
the first of the month, if sketches accompany 
the articles, they should be send four weeks 
before publication day, as it takes an im- 
mense space of time to engrave them. Cor- 
respondents wanted in every State. 
We shall take pleasure in naming any 
specimens of plants and insects sent by cor- 
respondents. Persons, who have already sent 
or may hereafter send small collections of 
specimens to be named, will please inform 
us if any of the species sent are from other 
States than their own. Lists of species found 
in any particular locality are of especial inter- 
est, as throwing light upon the geographical 
distribution of species. But to make them 
of real value, it is requisite that we know for 
certain whether or not all the specimens in 
any particular list come from that particular 
locality, and if not, from what locality they 
do come. 
List of the Khopalocera, Occurring in 
Bastrop County, Texas, as Observed 
During the Years 1867-77. 
one species. 
BY L. HEILIGBRODT, BASTROP, TEXAS. 
Abbreviations : v. c. very common ; c. com- 
mon; n. c. not common; r. rare; v. r. very 
rare. Those species which are marked very 
common, and part of those marked common 
constitute an essential feature of the insect 
fauna of this part of Texas. 
Papilio aja, Linn. r. 
" philenor, Linn. c. 
" asterias, Fabr. c. 
" troilus, Linn. r. 
" turnus, Linn. n. c. 
" palamedes, Drury. r. 
" cresphontes, Cram. n. c. 
Pieris monuste, Linn. r. 
" protodic, Bd. Lec. v. c. 
Nathalis iole, Bd. v. c. 
Anthocharis genutia, Bd. v. r. (esp. female.) 
Callidryas ciibule, Linn. v. c. j 
" ' sennce, Linn. v. c. j 
Gonepteryx lijside, G-odt. r. 
Colias ccesonia, Stoll. c. 
" eury theme, Bd. c. 
" keeimydin, Edw. n. c. 
" philodice, Godt. v. c. 
Terias nicippe, Cram. v. c. 
mexicana, Bd. r. (common in 1875.) 
lisa, Bd. c. 
Danais archippus, Fabr. v. c. 
" berenice, Cram. c. 
Colcenis julia, Fabr. v. r. 
Agraulis vanillac, Linn. c. 
Euptoieta claudia, Cram. c. 
Phyciodes nycteis, Doub. n. c. 
phaon, Edw. v. c. 
batesii, Reak. v. c. 
PJresia texana, Edw. n. c. 
Lynchloe adjutrix, Scud. v. c. 
Cystincura amymone. Men. r. 
Gfrapta interrogations, Fabr. c. 
Venessa antiopa, Linn. n. c. 
Pyrameis atalanta, Linn. c. 
" cardui, Linn. v. c. 
Gunonia lavinia, Cram. c. 
Timetes chiron, Fabr. v. c. 
Limenitis disippus, G-odt. r. 
Apatura celtis, Bd. c. 
" clyton, Bd. c. 
Paphia andria, Scud. v. c. 
Neonympha eurytris, Fabr. e. 
" sosybius, Fabr. c. 
iSatyrus pegala, Fabr. n. c. 
it 
Libythea Bachmanni, Kirtl. n. c. 
Thecla lialesus, Cram. r. (two broods.) 
autolycus, Edw. c. 
humuli, Harr. c. 
strigosa, Harr. c. 
smilacis, Bd. n. c. 
a 
ii 
it 
a 
pocas, Huebn. c. 
c. 
n. c. 
a 
Lycwna comyntas, Godt. 
" alee, Edw. v. c. 
gyas, Edw. r. 
fea. Edw. c. 
Ancyloxypha numitor, Fabr. 
Gopacodes procris, Edw. c. 
Pamphila huron, Edw. c. 
phylacus, Drury. v. c. (female r.) 
orettus, Bd. Lec. n. c. (fern. v. r.) 
pecMns, Kirby. n. c. 
" accius, Sm. Abb. r. 
" osyka, Edw. n. c. 
Amblyscirtes vialis, Edw. n. c. 
" samoset, Scud. v. 
Pyrgus tessellata. Scud. c. 
Thdnaos juvenalis, Fabr. v. c. 
" funeralis, Scud. Bug. 
Pholisora catullus, Cram. c. 
" hayliurstii, Edw. n. 
" ne'ssus, Edw. r. 
Eudamus pylades, Scud. n. c. 
" bathyllus, Sm. Abb. 
lycidas, Sm. Abb. r. 
epigena, Butl. v. r. 
proteus, Linn. r. 
r. 
v. c. 
c. 
c. 
The Brushes of the White-Marked 
Tussock Moth. 
\_Orgyia Leucostigma, Smith & Abbott.] 
BY C. G. SIEWERS, NEWPORT, KY. 
The larva of this moth, the pest of our 
shade trees and doorways, is really one of 
the handsomest and most unique of all that 
class of caterpillars that annoy us by their 
numbers. The three long tufts of hair; the 
remarkable close-set brushes on the fourth, 
fifth, sixth and seventh segments, and the 
beautiful bright-red colorations on the dor- 
sal line of the hind segments, looking like 
glowing rubies ; with its neat lateral lines 
and markings, will — on close inspection — be 
found a pleasant surprise to any one who 
may have judged it too common to notice. 
Its use of the four brushes on its back — 
which no brushmaker could improve on — 
has long been an object of surmise, which I 
have been enabled to solve by a mere acci- 
dent; desiring to sketch it, I took a full 
grown one from the pavement, but found it 
impossible to quiet it, as it was in search of 
a place to t£ spin up." I finally put it on the 
edge of a tumbler, where it travelled around 
for some time and then stopped, when throw- 
ing back the fore-part of its body till the 
brushes rested on the hind segments, it 
worked them violently from right to left, ev- 
idently to cleanse its " beauty spots." This 
it repeated several times after long tramps. 
Now, though larvse have no apparent 
sight [?] at this time, there are those who 
believe that they at one time had, but find- 
ing it useless, and the organs open to para- 
sites, they gradually dispensed with them. 
Might not this brushing be styled a case of 
inherited vanity ? 
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