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THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. 
C Lopkocampa Tesselaris ) are pretty moths ; the Brindled 
( Biston Hirtarius ? J is plain and more sober. And I perceive 
this morning that a beautiful^ but rather small Sphinx has 
crawled out of the earth in one of my breeding-boxes^ in 
which the caterpillar buried itself in September. It very 
much resembles the Eyed Hawk-moth ( Smerinthus Occel- 
latus ), but the eye-spot has two pupils. I do not think, 
however^ that this character^ the double pupil;, is constant, 
though it has given the specific name ; for in breeding two 
individuals^ whose larvae were taken together^ in nowise dis- 
tinguishable from each other^ one of the perfect moths had 
two blue spotS;, and the other only one, in these ocelli. They 
were exactly alike in every other respect : it is the Twin- 
Eyed Hawk ( Smerinthus Geminatus ), The wings are not 
deflected;, but stuck out at an angle of about 45° horizontally 
from the body, the second pair being concealed beneath the 
fore ones ; they are kept in almost constant vibration : the 
tongue or sucker is very small. Besides these which I have 
bred, I have taken many other species : two pretty Bombyces, 
the Snowy ( Spilosoma ? ) and the Panther ( Spiloso- 
ma Acria ), both of which flew into my room at night : the 
sexes of the latter differ from each other, the hind wings of 
the male being deep yellow, those of the female pure white, 
both spotted with black ; some Noctuce, among which I ma^ 
mention the Angleshades (Vhlogophora Meticulosa ) ; this 
I shook from a willow in bush-beating : among the Geo- 
metrcBf the minute but pretty little Orangeband, (Pyralis 
— — ? J and some of the Veneer moths f Crambus ) 
among the Tinece, 
F, — ^ I found two large hairy caterpillars of a dark grey- 
ish colour, about a week ago, feeding on the leaves of a tall 
herb, provincially called Indian Wickup ( Epilobium Lati- 
folium ) ; they have since spun dark brown cocoons. They 
