JULY. 
249 
PINK ARCHES. 
on arriving, to find that it had escaped through a hole in the 
net ! I have obtained specimens of between thirty and forty 
new species of moths, of which I shall only mention such as 
are remarkable for beauty :— The Coerulean ( Ctenucka La* 
treilliana), a pretty^ rather slender Bomhyx, has a golden yel- 
low head^ and the thorax 
and abdomen silky sky- 
blue : the wings are of a 
purplish black. A Noc^ 
tua, the Pink Arches 
(Thyatira Scripta )y is 
one of the most delicate- 
ly beautiful of the small 
moths that I have ever (Tliyatifra Scripta.) 
seen. 
F, — They are both rather common: the former I ob- 
served numerous about Quebec, particularly on the Heights 
of Abraham. 
C. — The rich Twin Goldspot of Newfoundland ( Plusia 
Iota ?Jis> not uncommon ; nor the Clifden Beauty f Xere7ie 
Albicillata J and Spotted Lemon f Angerona Sospeta J, the 
last a bright-coloured little species, one of which laid a 
number of oval, green eggs while in my possession. I have 
also taken several specimens of a delicate Pteropkorusy the 
Drab Plume. I have obtained many caterpillars lately by 
bush-beating ; among which are two quite young ones of 
the Tiger Swallowtail, feeding on Basswood ( Tilia Glabra ) ; 
they are bluish grey at each extremity, and white in the 
middle ; also several of the Yapourer- moth ( Orgyia A nti- 
qua ), from Ash ( Fraxinus Sambucifolia ), Choke-cherry 
(Prunus Serotina J, and Willows (SalixJ, From the Wild 
Gooseberry (Ribes Cynosbati), I took several spinous cater- 
pillars, which are light-coloured, with dark transverse spots. 
One of them has since suspended itself by the tail, and 
