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Psyche 9:431-?, 1900.

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December, 19021 PSYCHE, 481
The abdomen is strongly keeled dorsally, the region of the keel being purplish,
somewhat mottled, and changing into
light ochreous above the white (inter-
rupted) subdorsal lines. Sides of abdo-
men mottled with purplish and dull
white. Femora with an ochreous line
above, and a white line at the sides
marking the ridges. Tibiae pale pur-
plish, mottled with pink at sides, with a dark gray stripe beneath. Spines rosy,
tipped with black.
$ . Green form. Similar but apple
green in place of brown, and hardly any
mottling; median zone of head and pro-
thorax a dull emerald green, not mottled. Lateral band a deep olivc-green, the
white edging very distinct and beautiful. Ground-color of tibiae pale bluish.
Hab. Las Vegas Hot Springs, N. M.,
July 1 I, 1899. (W. Porter and S. Mize.) I give also a brief description of the
adult from the same place:
No~~s.-Carabus nemoralis Mtlll. is taken not uncommonly at Cambridge, Mass. Other North American records are IIudson's Bay, St. John, N. B., and Maine.
In Caterpillars and their moths (New York. The Century Company, 1902), Miks Eliot and Miss Sonic record their long and varied ex- periences in the rearingof moths. Chaptcis one to six, pages 3-66, deal with appliance?;, structure, habitb, methods of care, preserva- tion, note-taking, etc. ; and chapters seven to seventeen, pages 69-299, are devoted to more or less detailed life histories of a num- ber of common moths, chiefly sphingine and bornbycine.
The text, with the exception of the pait re- ?. Like the pupa, but colors grayer,
not so reddish; hind tibiae coral red.
Tegmina blackish with a yellowish-white
mbcostal stripe and another stripe in the median field, beginning abruptly just be- low the middle of the tegmen; a longi-
tudinal ochreous stripe along the lower
margin continuous and coneolorous with
the subdorsal stripes of the thorax.
Wings tinged with yellowish, apical
third dusky. 17 spines on outer mar-
gin of hind tibia. Measurements in mm.:
antenna, 16, vertex 54, pronotum 66,
tegmina 30, end of pronotum to tip of
abdomen 294. hind femur 214, hind tibia
19b. (Aug. 10, 1899, W, Porter). The
adult was kindly determined by Mr.
Scudder. Brunner found the species
only among Agave; it did not occur
near or upon Agave at Las Vegas Hot
Springs. The tegmina in our form are
appreciably shorter than in Brunei's
types.
lating to structure, is quite satisfactory 60 far as facts are concerned, hut from a literary standpoint it lacks simplicity. The collo- quialness of the style and the frequent use of "One of Us," six times on a single page, is especially displeasing.
The illustrations are from photographs by Miss Edith Eliot and show the caterpillars and spread moths of most of the species
treated. Those of the caterpillars are uni- formly good, while those of the moths are more uneven as properly spread specimens were not always selected for illustration. The index even as a list of names is inade- quate ;md tlic rendering of some of the scien- tific names shows careless proof reading.



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