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'HE. [May 1888.
PSYCHE.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., MAY 1888.
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UNUSUAL COCOONS OF LIMACODES
SCAPHA.
In October, 1887, Miss Ida M. Eliot sent me, from Nonquitt, Mass., several larvae of L. scapha on twigs of bayberry (Myrim).
To keep the food moist I put damp sand in a tin box, stuck the twigs into it, and placed the larvae on them.
One caterpillar made its cocoon in the
usual way,-a tough, parchment-like case, but all the others spun bits of coarse sand into their cocoons, so that they look like nothing but lumps of sand. Beneath the
sand, however, the cocoons show the normal kind and shape.
One larva added to the sand two bits of
leaf, and the one which made the usual
cocoon fastened it to a leaf.
Caroline G. Sode.
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NOTE ON MELITAEA PHAETON.
On the third of last August I found, in
Jefferson Highlands, N. H., a nest of young larvae of MeZitaea-phaeton. It was formed, as described by Mr. W: H: Edwards, by
drawing together the leaves of the Chelone glabra, and a fern had also been worked into its construction. I allowed the main part of the colony to remain where it was found, removing only a small detachment. The lar- vae that weie removed ate one or two meals, certainly not more, before going into winter quarters in asmall nest which they construct- ed in their new home.
Visiting the main
colony of larvae from time to time through the month to cornparetheir habits with those of the larvae in confinement, I was surprised, at that time not being familiar with their his- tory, to find that they too had ceased to eat. On the twenty-seventh of the month I placed my smaller detachment in proximity to the largercurnmunity, often removing the smaller lot to a fresh sprig of Chelone, and found that the larvae soon rejoined their old companions, with whom they are now hibernating.
Holmes Hinkley.
HABIT OF VESPA.
While going through a swamp filled with
alder bushes I noticed, hanging in the middle of one, a wasp devouring a fly in the position shown in the drawing. The wasp hung
down by one foot. The abdomen was bent
up out of the way. The half-eaten fly was held by the front feet, while the other legs and wings stuck out carelessly in all direc- tions. As the mandibles and antennae kept in rapid motion and the fly was turned over and over by the fore feet, the wasp swung slowly back and forth with the same appear- ance of comfort and enjoyment s a man eat- '&
ing an apple in a hiinmock. hen the fly
had been reduced to wings and shell the wasp let it drop, got up on thetwig and flew away. James H: Emerton.
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