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November-~ecember 1888.1 PSYCHE
PSYCHE.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., N0V.-DEC., 1888.
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TWO EUROPEAN WEEVILS NEW TO
THE UNITED STATES.
Mr. F. C. Bowditch has collected Scia
fiilus muricaftts and Strofihosovm~s coryli in Brookline, Massachusetts. Thirteen speci- mens of the first mentioned species were beaten from balm of gilead, Pftpulus balsami- fera, and about the same number of Stro- ~5hosomus coryli were obtained by sifting. Sometime ago Mr. H. B. Bailey sent me, for identification, four specimens of 5. coryli which he had collected on yellow birch,
Betula lutea, at South Orange, N. J. In
Europe this species has, been recorded from birch (Betula), beech (Fagz~s), hazel (Cory- lus), oak {Snercus), pine (Pifzzts), and the Scotch broom (Cytisiisscoftariits). Dr. W. G. Dietz identified the species for Mr. Bowditch. Samuel Henshaw.
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HIBERNATION OF THECLIDI.
How many ofour Thec/idipass the winter in the egg state? Last year I found a wintering egg of liparo$s on a shadbush (Amelaiichier canademis), and this year that of titus on wild cherry in each case in a protected spot on one of the terminal twigs. Several spe- cies of European Theclidi, at least five or six of the nine species, are reported to winter as eggs, while of the others perhaps one or two winter as chrysalids. Mr. Saunders,
then of London, now of Ottawa, years
ago obtained the caterpillars of acadica and edwardsii in June before any butterfly is on the wing, so that it is probable that these species also winter in the egg; and Mr. Hul- bert, of New Britain, last year found cater- pillars of calanus during the last of May, so that that species is presumably also in the same category. But I should be glad of fur- ther facts regarding them. On the other
hand damon (smilacis) certainly winters as a chrysalis, and probably all the species of Incisaliit, I. augustz~s, ni-fihon and ifus, to judge from their early appearance only. How is it w-ith melinus? I suspect this also winters in the chrysalis state, but should be glad of any information that can be given. Samuel H. Scudder.
REARING LEPIDOPTERA.
In the early times of my entomological
work I found much difficulty
in obtaining
moths from pupae formed "in the groundw-as represented by kegs, deep flower-pots, &c. Three or four years agoIaccidentally hit upon a much easier and more successful way of obtaining such pupae, and imagines. A
Sphinx dru$iferarurn larva was forgotten in a close tin, and pupated perfectly without a particle of earth. After finding this pupa, Miss Eliot and I experimented with other shi?zg/dae, Datana ministra, Anisota sena- toria and other larvae, with the result that of those we allowed to pupate in the ground more than halffailed to give the imago, while of those pupating in the close tins very few failed.-Of some kinds every one emerged. With one or two exceptions all those in tin emerged earlier than those in earth, though kept in the same room.
As this plan has been in successful opera- tion for three or four years, and is much simpler and easier than the earth-plan, I ven. ture to recommend it "to all whom it may concern."
Caroline G. Soule.




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