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126 PSYCHE. [~ugust I&II.
so as to touch the cocoon. I saw
it force its way out through one of the
meshes, which it did in a few seconds
by a series of starts, pushing itself with its legs and opening- and contracting its limp wings; it made use of any limb
as soon as it was free from its encase-
ments, and as soon as it was out of the
cocoon it took up a position where its
wings could properly hang and expand.
Most of the imagos bred by me came
out in the third week of September;
one was in chrysalis from August 23 to
September 24, or thirty-two days. As,
according to Packard, there is but one
brood a yesir and eggs are laid very
soon after hatching, it is probable that winter is passed in the egg state.
Packard figures the caterpillar, but not (as he says) the pupa, in his Monograph
of the Phalaenidae. (From notes taken
in 1859 and I 861 .)
A LIST OF THE BOMBYCES FOUND IN THE ELECTRIC LIGHT GLOBES AT POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y.
BY HARRISON G. DYAR, NEW YORK.
During the summer of 1890 I made
nine visits to the electric lamps of Pough- keepsie and the following list shows the number of Bombyces that they contained
at each visit, with totals. I have in-
cluded also the names of all Bombyces
that I have found in western Dutchess
County even though not found in the
lamps in 1890. The numbers will give
a fair idea of the relative abundance of the different species. To my surprise I
found Halesidota tessellaris the most
abundant though, judging from the
larvae, it was no more common than
usual, while Ciisiocamfa americana,
which was second in abundance, was
unusually common, doing much injury
to the wild cherry and apple trees.
I visited about one-third of the electric lights in Poughkeepsie and took al-
together 7874 specimens.
The list con-
tains I 14 species. The seven most
numerous species, those comprising one
per cent or over of the total number,
were the following :-
Per cent.
HaJesidota tesseZZaris Sm. Abb. 34
Ciisioca@a americana Harr. 31
Hyphafttria var. textor Harr. 1.6
Spilosoma virginica Fabr. I
Clisiocamfa disstria Hubn. I
Hyperchiria io ~abr. I
PyrrharctiaIsabellaSm.Abb. I
All the rest together (88 species) 1 j
I was greatly assisted in making the
collections here recorded by the kind-
ness of Mr. J. H. Van Norstrand of
Poughkeepsie who takes care of the
electric lights I visited.
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August 1891.1
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Nola trinotata
" melanopa .................
Argyrophyes nigrofahciata .......
................
Cletnensia albata
............... Crambidia pallida
Hypoprepia fucosa (and var.) ....
............
Euphanesha mendica
Crocota brevicornis .............
" opella ..................
Utetheisa bella ..................
Callimorpha suffusa .............
....................
Arctia virgo
.....................
.. nais
...............
' virguncula
'. arge .....................
Pyrrharctia isabella .............
Phragmatobia fuliginosa ........
Leucarctia acraea ...............
Spilosoma virginica ............
" latipennis ............
‰ antigone ............
Hyphantria cunea ..............
Euchaetes egle ..................
collaris ...............
Ecpantheria scribonia ...........
Halesidota tessellaris ............
" caryae ...............
' maculata .............
..................
Orgyia definita
& &
..............
leucostigma
Parorgyia clintonii .............
" parallels.. ............
' cinamomea ...........
..................
Lagoa crispata
...................
~~ Enclea cipp~s
Parasa chloris (fraterna) ........
Empretia stimulea ..............
Phobetron pitheciu~n ............
..............
Limacodes scapha
.............
' biguttata
............
y-inversa
..............
.. fasciola
c L
..............
flexuosa
.............
" caesonia
..............
Sisyrosea inornata
Adoneta spinuloides .............
Juni
14
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[August 1891.
1 June 1 June
...............
Packardia elegans 1 .. 1 ..
..................... ' fusca
I' geminata .................
albipunctata ..............
..................
Tortricidia flavula
.................
Lacosoma chiridota
.................
Ichthyura inclusa..
1 I
vau .................... 1
' albosigma ..............
Aptelodes torrefacta.. .......... 1 2
L1 angelica ...-.............
....................
Datana angusii..
ministra ................. 6
3
..................... dl-exelii
.................
major..
palmii ...................
.............
integerrima
..............
contracts..
perspicua ...............
.................
Nadata gibbosa.
.............
Gluphisia trilineata
..............
Notodonta stragnla
........
Lophodonta ferruginea..
angulosa ...........
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..........
georgica..
.................
Pheosia rimosa
................
Nerice bidentata
................
Edema albicosta
..................
Ellida gelida*
............
Seirodonta bilineata
............
Oedeinasia concinna
" leptinoides .............
eximia .... .............I :: 1 .I.
.............
Ifinassa lignicolor
..........
Heterocampa obliqua..
1t
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man teo
6 L guttivitta..
........
11
biundata ..........
li
unicolor ..........
11
marthesia .........
.................
Cerura borealis
-.
June
24.
* Onv specimen in electric light July 11, 1889.



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August 1891. J
Cerura
occidentalis.. ...........
' aquilonaris.. ...........
................ " cinerea
" multiscripta ............
Platypteryx arcuata ............
Dryopteris rosea ...............
.................... Actias lima
Telea polyphemus ..............
Calosamia prometliea ..........
t t angulifera
..........
Platysamia cecropia ............
Hyperchiria io. .................
Eacles imperialis.. ..............
Citheronia regalis ..............
Anisota stigma.. -.-............
" senatoria ..............
Dryocampa rubicunda ..........
Clisiocampa americana.. ..-...
L 6 disstria..
...........
Gastropacha americana ......--.
Tolype laricis ..................
" velleda ..................
Prionoxystus robiniae ..........
Totals per visit ...........
June
'4-
June
20.
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88 I
June
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Total number of moths taken. -.-............................................ Totals.
15
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54
4
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49
I 06
40
14
9
0
2 8
2419
I 18
2
4
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10
7874
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EXPERIMENTS WITH ALPINE BUTTERFLIES.
BY SAMUEL H. SCUDDER.
Before noon on July I 7 last, the morn-
ing being fair, 1 caged half a dozen
Oeneis semi& 9 on a pot of growing
sedge in an open south window, in the
hotel on the summit of Mount Washing-
ton, N. H. The afternoon and all the
next day the mountain was enveloped
in clouds, and no eggs were laid before
July 20 when, by eight o'clock, a single egg was seen ; during that day and the
next, both of which were fair, about
eight or nine eggs were laid. perhaps a
few more. July 20, at about 2 P. M.,
two more cages were stocked, both out
of doors on growing sedge, and in one
five, in the other seven females were
placed. These were examined about
twenty-four hours later ; three egg's
were found in the former, none in the
latter, and all the females were re-
placed where the five had been, and left in the care of Mr. H. H. Lyman who
remained longer on the mountain. Into
the cage in the house hiilf a dozen more



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