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Psyche 3:368, 1880.

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fond of the petunia and verbena, and so
abundant are they this month (Sept.) that hundreds of them can be seen in an even- inghoveringover fields of these flowers. The moths froin the winter chrysalids first appear early in June, and those from the first brood of larvae early in August.
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Scarcely less abundant than D. lineata
is Dolba ht/iaens which occurs from June to September. Next in abundance comes
Sphinx gordius, from May to September.
8. Jtulmiae is common from the first part of June to August, and S. drupiferarum
through June. S. eren~itus is common
from the middle of June to the middle of August. Darapsa choerilzis is common
from the middle of June to the middle of July. PJiilcimpelzis achemon and P. satel- litiu are rather common from the latter
part of June to August. Macrosila quin-
quemaciilr~ta is very common from June
to September, but M. carolina is rather
rare. The same remark will apply to
Sphinx chersis. The larvae of Ceratoinia arnyntor feed on the elm ( Ulmus) and on the white birch (Betula alba), but are not common.
Our most common Smerinthus is 8. ex-
caecatus, occuring in July and August.
A female taken 15 July and confined in a box deposited 331 eggs from 15 to 20 July, about 30 being laid each. evening at dusk and the same number in the morning.
This was done quite regularly, no eggs
being laid at any other time. The eggs are cylindrical, flattened, 2.5 mm. in diameter, and grass-green in color. The larvae be- gan to appear 22 July and all were hatched by 28 July. The young larvae measure
4.7 to 5 mm. in length, and are ysllowish green with a darker dorsal line. Head
pale green, and twice as wide as the body. Caudal horn long, dull red.
Among the rarest of our sphingidae,
of which I have taken but one or two
specimens each in nine years of collecting, are Smerinthus modestus (22 June and 20
July), 8. geminatps (3 Aug.), Sphinx
Inscitiosa (20 June), T71y~e1ts abbotit (in May), Deilephil(( chamamerii (2 June),
Choerocampa tersa (15 July), Darcqsa
versicolor (8 July), Ellema hwrisii (2
June).
Amherst, 13 Sept. 1882.
MUMMY OF A WASP.-In Maspero and
BrugschYs work "La trouvaille dc Deir-el- Bahari" (1881) is given, according to a
note presented by ^VI. Van Segvelt in the July meeting of the SociM cutomologique
de Bclgique. a notice of a, wasp found
preserved in the coffin of Amenophis I,
the illustrious king of Egpt. The wasp,
attracted probably by the flowers with
which the mummy of the king was wrapped
previous to interment, had entered the cof- fin and thus furnished us probably the only specimen of a mummy of a wasp.
De Rhon4, in his " Resume chronolog-
iqne dc l'histoire d'Egypte," places the accession of Thoutmcs I, the successor
of Amenophis I, to the throne in 1668 B. C. This insect therefore died 3550 years ago, and is probably the only insect
of which the date of death was of such
remote antiquity and is so certainly recor- der!. The name of the species is not
given.




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