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November 1894.1
2. Tettix.
2. ornatus 'Say.
.o " type form.
.I triangularis Scudd.
3. grandatus Kirby.
3. Paratettix.
BATRACHIDEAE.
4. Tettigidea.
5. lateralis Say.
6. polymorpha Burin.
[Tettix harrisii Packaid-Rep't. nat. hist. Maine, 1861, 375-3776, is undescribed and consequently has no scientific standing.] Errata.-I regret to say that several
typographical errors in my "Preliminary
List of the Acrididae of N.E." (Psyche, 1894, pp. 102-108) need correction as follows : - Page 105, G. 11, should read "Scirtetica." 106, Sp. 33, " " "atlank."
' G. 19, " " i'Pezotettix,"
'' 108, col. I, line 4,
å´ "Acyptera."
POLYGAMY OF ACTIAS LUNA AND
CALLOSAMIA PROMETHEA.
On April zgth, 1894, a ef and !# A. Zum
emerged in my box, and on that night mated, remaining in coihi until after ten. o'clock the next day. On April 3oth, the Q was put
into a box prepared for egg-laying, and a newly emerged $! was put into the cage with the $, That night, between ten and eleven they were found in coitii, and so remained until after ten o'clock the next day. Both females laid many eggs, and both sets of eggs gave larvae on May 21st and 22nd. The f, was kept for several days, but, as no other emerged, was then let out at the window and flew away almost as vigorously as a freshly emerged moth.
In 1893 a 9 C. $romethea, in a cage by an open window, attracted about forty 8 f
twenty of which were caught and put into the cage. At first they all flew up and down the netting, with great excitement and much
vibration ofthe wings, then sixof them seized the abdomen of the $! with their claspers, and struggled for possession, nor did the others lose their hold when one was success- ful. After fifteen minutes this ef was re- moved and put into another cage, when a
second took his place almost immediately, and was left for twenty minutes, then was removed and put into the second cage. In less than ten minutes a third 8 had mated with the 2, was later r.emove.d, and a fourth took his place. This was repeated until
seven f 8 had mated with this one 2.
Meanwhile these 8 f not caught were
flying up and down the outside of the cage and finally dropped dead with exertion and excitement. They were kept two days to be sure that they would not revive.
So many f, f, were flying about the win- dow that three cats spent an hour or more trying to catch them, and passers-by stopped to look.
When the seventh 8 had been mated for
an hour he was removed, and the $2 taken outdoors and put on a low branch of an ash tree. There she attracted all the unmated f 8 and an eighth paired with her. The
others flew about the tree, until dark, when observations ceased.
Eggs laid by this $2 hatched in due time. As all accounts of "attraction" which I
have seen state that when the $2 ismated the 8 $ w no further attention to her, it seems worth while to offer this experience, which was a surprise aka. Caroline G. Souls.
*.%*The note in the last number of Psyche was written subsequently to this and intended as a supple- ment to it.




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