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Psyche 7:451, 1894.

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450 PS YCm. [November r8tj6.
second s~~hdavate, petiolate, sparsely bristly ; third cylindrical, bristly; terminal segtnient subpetiolate, rather blunt, uni-ingcd, with about ten separated whorls of hristies. Body ovate From above, anteriorly al~nost naked, posteriorly with short, sparse bristles; anal tubercle small, liristly, compose$ of two seg- ments. Both the vent.mt tube and its pro- cesses are cylindric:il and stout. Legs stoiit, bristly; tibio-tarsi11 articulation constricted. Superior claw finger-shaped, ~ilinost straight, not dentate; inferior claw two thirds as long, triangl~lar with straight outer edge. Tenent hairs two. Fiirciilii short and stout; manu- brium not exceeding the anal tubercle,
sparsely bristly ; dentes scarcely tapering, with liiteral and ventral rows of sepiirated bristles; mucrones two-thirds dentes in
length, long-triangular with entire margins and rounded apices.
Maximum lcngtth, 1.1 mm. Described
from ten types.
I found this uncon~nion species, especially under the hack of deziil oak logs. at Arling- ton, Mass., this Fear, from March 26 until Apr!l i3, inclusive. With pleasure T name it after Mr. Samuel Henshaw.
Types of all the above species have been given to the Museum of Compsirative ZoGl- ogy at Cambridge, Mass.
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 10.
Fig. I.
SmyntJnm~ socialis,, fore foot, x
472.
Fig. 2.
Sfiiy~ihrtrzu socialis, mucro, x 472.
Fig. 3. ' hind foot,
472.
Fig. 4. S?nyi~;å´hrit socialis. modified male antenna, x 171.
Fig. 5.
.Tmynihurit'i JenHus, terminal an-
tend segment, x n6.
Fig. 6. Smynthnrns amicns, fore foot, x
353-
Fig. 7.
Smy~~th~-zts umicus, mucro, x 353.
Fig. 8. 11 ' hind foot. x
353-
PARTIAL LIFE-HISTORY OF IIALISIDOTA CINCTIPES GROTE. RY HARRISON G. LÌöYAR SEW YORK, N. Y.
Larvu ii liirge I-Ialisidotii, like fe.tse/~wi.c, but d;wk lirown or silver gray brown with all the hair tufts white. Feeding on sea- grape, Lake Worth, Florida.
I assume eight stages, though some of
them may be omitted in the actnal ontogony. Staye IV. Skin orange brownish, a bliick subdorsal shade 011 joints 5 to 11, connected dorsally :it the ends and most pronounced there (j and 11) ; tubercles i to iii black on i; and I I. elsewhere the warts tire brownish. Head round, shining black over apex, brown below, labrum bright white; width 1.3 n3m. Hair short. thin, white, wit11 a few black ones, especi~lly on the dark inarks and on joints j ;nid IT ; ;Ì short, yellowish snbdorsal pencil on joints 4 and 12; a few longer pale hairs at the anterior end. Wart iv absent on the abdomen, leg plate shining; two
warts on joints 3 and 4 above the stigmata1 wart, one below it; joint 2 considerably re- tracted. The subdirsal pencil on joint 4 arises from tubercle i ; on joint 12 from iii. Stage. VII, Head red-brown, a little
blackish immediately above the white line on labrum and the white bases of the anten- nae; width 3.< mm. Hair thinner than in
the following stage, the color of the skin visible, violaceous brown with black dorsal shade and spiracular marks or bluckish gray, shiiding darker itiginatically. Hair brown, varying from violaceous brown to chocolate;



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hair pencils as in next stage.
A mark in the
incisure between joints 5 and 4 pinkish, cii- vided by :A dorsal bluck line >uu1 surrniiiide~l by black spottings.
Stop VIII. Head round, shining mahog-
any red, paler along the sutures; a line ~lbove the mout11 and bascb of antennae wl~ite: width i, mm. Ilair thick, obscuring the
body, uniform pale cliocolate brown or gray brown with a whitish cast on the sides,
crested and appcaringdarker along the dor- sill line, The hairs separate around the in- cisi-ire between joints 3 and + exposing the skin which is here slightly orange ti11tei.1, the three upper warts on 3 and 4 bein~vhitisli and set oft by blacl~ ptclies 011 the skin. A white hair pencil from wai'ls i 8nci iii on joint 4, a few long whitish lnlirs from the same wails on joint 3: a white pencil from wart i on 12. Skin red brown more or less
spotted with blsick or all bluck except the leg,; spii-ficles wliitc. Joint i is retracted, its liiiirs directed forward over the head. Ilairs all finely barlmlecl: warts i to vi on abdomen ; wart iv distinct, but not fi-ill size; four warts on thorax. Lengh of larva about 30 mm. The orange colored incisiire on the thorax forms a rather distinct murk. set off by black and the six white rays.
Cocoon. Firm, compact, the larval 11airs closel~ felted and many of them projecting through, so that the cocoon cannot be
bandled without rcceivingtheir sharp points, The cocoon has the color of the hairs.
Food Plants. Sea grape (Coccoloba fan-
ddna and C. stmifei'a), kindb determined by Mr. P. Kinzel. The larvae were found on
no other plants and 1 think their occurrence on /Z/'&/'.<cfts, as recorded bv Gundlach, must have been acciclentii.1 or at least exception;il. Tlie species has ii wide I-ange. It occurs in our country in Floriclri (crncti'p~s) and Arizona (<7avis/'!' Hy. Edw.) ,extending south- ~tircl through the West Indies :ind Mexico to Venexuelfi, tl~rougli Brazil (<wfw/<neaiit Walk., jzcnilda 13. S.) to Argentilia. Moths from Buenos Ayres Eire paler 111sm Cuban specinicns. the marks less contriist~ci, but all essential features are the mine even to the bonded legs. The mnrkinfis on tlie fore
wings are irregular and variable US in if. fesselan'~.
Doubtless there is somelocal variation in tlie Iai-vae in different parts of this wide range. Cocoons fromBuenos Ayres arealmost black. Indicating that the larvae must be consider- ably darker there than in Florida.
NOTES OX LEPIDOPTERA. -On ~lltting
open a cocoon of A. //urn to see if the pupa was alive, I found thnt the moth bad crawled out of the pupii-shin and, being unable to get out of the cocoon, had laid eggs all over the inner side of it. The e m were alniost black. instead of being white.
For three summers I have noticed that
inale orioles preferred sphingid larvae to all others, and by following them I have found many larvae of D. imcrif& A. itcssus, and T. abbotfii, besides E. qf'ori. \ Law one oriole carry from a woodbine fifty spliiiigicl larvae in an IIOLD- and a hail'. So far it. has been only thc malt who h;is hunted in the woodbines, though the female v:^ getting food in elms nnd a-li tree5 close by.
Each June, 1'or three yein's a P. card-iti. 11iis rested on the gmvel of our drivewa? almost ever? night. It appears between five and six o'clock. settles in ahnost the same place in the drivewiiy. drops its forewings between its hindwings. and stays quiet until e carriage. person, or dog disturbs it,
when it Hies about for a few moments, and them settles down again. If an English
sparrow flies anvwhere near it the butterfly flies towlvds it, flutters around it as it does around one of its own race, then vests again on the gri~vcl. and is to be seen there as loiiy as there is light enough to see it!
Of corn-se it cnnnot be the same butterfly, and it is queer th:it only one should cunit; at a time; and that the resting pliicc should not vary by ten incl~e~ either on different nights or >ears. Caroline G. Sde.
Broo^Uiie. Mass.




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