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PSYCHE.
[April 1893.
abdominal joints 1-3, with slight ones on joint 4. Length 17 mm. ; greatest width 6.5 mm.
Duration of this stage g days.
Foodplant.-Live oak(9uercus agrifolia).
8 moth.-Variable in markings. An aver-
age specimen was marked as follows. Prim- aries brownish gray, whitish scales largely predominating over a ground of black and brown scales; a black basal line, not reach- ing costa or internal margin and a brownish patch outside this, covering the lower half of the wing before the t. a. line and narrowly separated from the t. a. line by pale gray. Transverse anterior line broad, brown with black scales, especially near the costa, nearly straight, gently angulated at median vein ; a reniform discal spot, outlined in brown, filled in with a white shade and narrowly bordered with whitish. Median space pale gray, espe- cially costally, darker outside the reniform spot; veins slightly lined in black. Trans- verse posterior line black, starting from costa above reniform spot, passing outward and around the spot, thence inwardly curved, slightly dentate outwardly on all the veins and reaching internal margin parallel to t. a. line. On the costa beyond t. p. line, a black patch, from which proceeds the rusty brown subterminal line, following a course parallel to the t. p. line and strongly marked below vein 2 by a white cresentic mark, which is produced toward the anal angle (on one
wing) giving it the shape of a comma. A
brown terminal line, heavier and marked with black opposite the crescent. Fringes blackish interrupted with paler.
Secondaries chestnut brown, shaded with
black, quite heavily all around the outer mar- gin and apex. Below, chestnut brown ; the costa of fore wings gray and an exterior blackish brown line on the costal half of all four wings.
Expanse, 27 mm. (1.1 inch).
9 moth.-Head and thorax small, legs
slender, antennae small, shortly bipectinate ; wings fully 5 mm. long, narrow, bent, clothed with sordid white hairs, mixed with a few black scales. Abodmen very large, robust, covered abundantly with pale cinereous down beneath. Back thinly clothed with sordid white down, the dorsum of the body showing through in a broad dark cinereous band on both thorax and abdomen. Width of thorax 3 mm. ; length 2 mm. ;width of abdomen 9.5 mm. ; length 15 mm.
Habitat.ÌÔCoas region of California. Re- corded from Contra Costa Co., (Edwards), Alameda Co. (Behr) , San Mateo Co., Santa Cruz Co., and Monterey Co., Cal.
The moths above described agree so well
with Mr. Edwards' characterization of Orgyia vetusta Bd. that, had it not been for the food plant of the larva, I should have had no hesitation in referring them to that species. On the other hand, I have received from Mr. L. E. Ricksecker, under the name of 0.
uetusta, moths which exactly correspond
with Mr. Edwards' description of 0. gdosa. It is evident, therefore, that Mr. Edwards has confounded the two forms and placed the
larvae wrongly. His descriptions of the
mature forms of 0, vetusta and 0. gulosa in Papilio (i, 60-62) should be transposed, while the characterizations of the larvae are correct. I have concluded to preserve the determinations of the larvae as made by Mr. Edwards rather than those of the moths because, in the larval state, they are the more easily separated, especially in relation to their food plants, and because this
determination is the one generally accepted by Californian collectors.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.-111.
BY SAMUEL HENSHAW.
BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA. - Co-
LEOPTERA. Vol. 111, Part 3 By Henry
Stephen Gorham.
gen. sp.
Lycidae, 1880-81, pt. 8-9, p. 1-29;
1884, pt. 32-33, p. 225-249. 14 123
Lampyridae, 1881, pt. 9-11, P. 29-
65 ; 1884-85, pt. 33, 36, p- 249-
277- 15 144




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April 1893.1 PSYCHE. 441
Telephoridae, 1881, pt. 11-14, p. 65-
106; 1885, pt. 36-38, p. 277-
311. 16 151
Lymexylonidae, 1881, pt. 14, p.
106-112; 1885-86, pt. 38, 46, p.
311-313. 4 8
Melyridae, 1881-82, pt. 14, 16, p.
112-128; 1886, pt. 46, p. 313-
332. 15 83
Cleridae, 1882, pt. 17-19, 21, 24, p.
129-193 ; 1886, pt. 46-47, p. 332-
346. 27 200
Ptinidae, 1883, pt. 24, p. 194-209;
1886, Pt. 47 P. 347-352- 15 43
Bostrychidae, 1883, pt. 24, p. 210-
218; 1886, pt* 47, p- 352-354- 7 15
Cioidae, 1883, pt. 24, p. 218-224;
1886, pt- 47, p* 354-360. 6 24
Species of the following genera are fig- ured :-
Lycidae. - Caenia, I. *Caller~~, 4. *Calo- cladon, 2,4, 11. *Calolycus, 4. Calopteron, I, 2, 4, 11. *Linoptes, XI. Lucaina, 12. *LycinelIa, II. Lycostomus, I, 2, 11. Ly- cus, I. Lygistopterus, I, 2, 11. Plateros, I, 3, 11.
Lam$yridae. - Aethra, 3, I I. Aspido-
soma, 3, 4, 12. Cladodes, 3. Cratomorphus, 4, 11, 12. *Drilolampadius, 3, 11. Hyas, 3. Lamprocera, 3, II. Lucidota, 3, 4, 11. Mega- lophthalmus, I I. Phaenolis, 3. Phengodes, 3, 5. Photinus, 3, 4, 12. Photuris, 3, 4, 12. Pyrectomena, 3, 4.
Telephon2ae.-Belotus, 6. Chauliogna-
thus, 5, 6, 12. *Daiphron, 5. *Discodon, 5, 6. Lobetus, 6. Malthinus, 6. *Maronius,
6. 12. Sills, 5, 6, 12. *Thinalmus, 6. Try- pherus, 6.
Lymexylonidae. - Atractocerus, 7. *Eury- opa, 6. Melitomma, 7. *Ptorthodius, 6.
MeZyridae.-Anthocomus, 6,7. *Antixoon,
13. Astylus, 7, 12. Attalus, 13. Collops, 6, 13. *Cymbolus, 13. *Dromanthus, 7, 13.
Ebaeus, 7. Lemphus, 13. Listrus, 13.
Cleridae. - Aulicus, 8. *Blaxima, 8.
Chariessa, 12. Clerus, 8, 12. Colyphus, 7, 8, 12, 13. Cymatodera, 7, 13. Epiphloeus, 8, IS. Hydnocera, 9, 13. Ichnea, 9, ID, 12. Lebasiella, 9. Orthopleura, 9. Pelonium, 9, 12. Phonius, 7. Platynoptera, 9. Poecil- ochroa, 13. Priocera, 7, 13. Pyticera, 9. Sallaea, 8. Tillus, 9, 13.
Ptinidae. - Anobium, 13.
Cathorama, 10-
Dorcatoma, 10. *Lioolius, 10. *Micrano-
bium, 10. Mirosternus, 13 *Pitnus, 10.
*Priotoma, 10. Ptinus, 10. *Thaptor, 10. Trichodesma, 10. Trigonogenius, 10, 13.
Bosfryckidae. - Bostrychus, 10. Dino-
derus, 13. Polycaon, 10. Tetrapriocera, 10 Xylopertha, 10.
Cioidae. - Ceracis, '10. Cis, 10, 13. Mac- rocis, 10. Xylographus, 13.
The figure following the name of the genus denotes the number of the plate; new genera are marked (*).
VANESSA MILBERTI, A CORRECTION.- In
the current volume of Psyche, p. 10, I notice reference to a specimen of this butterfly hav- ing been caught at Polegate, Sussex, in
England. At the time I questioned the
authenticity of the specimen, and at the meeting following that at which it was
exhibited, enough information had been
obtained to prove that it was not taken in England and had been palmed off as a variety of V. urticae on a gentleman who gave
rather high prices for varieties of British Lepidoptera. y. W. Tutt.
ENTOMOLOGICAL No~~s.-The twelfth part
of Kolbe's Introduction deals with the diges- tive tract and its appendages and the secre- tory organs, apparently completing the study of the internal structure of insects, though the outline of the plan of the work announced in the first part has not been strictly fol- lowed. The special bibliographies to each section are, as heretofore, important acces- sories to the work, but do not appear always to have been compiled with sufficient care, many minor references being given which
hardly deserve mention in a selected series,



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