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VOL. IX. No. 4.

JO U RNAL

OF THE

NEW YORK

Entomological Society.

IDevoteO to Entomolog* in General.

DECEMBER 1901.

Edited by WILLIAM BEUTENMULLER.

Published Quarterly by the Society.

NEW YORK.

I9OI.

Entered as second-class matter at the New YorKc Post Office, June 1I, 1895

THE NEW ERA PRINT, LANCASTER, PA,

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C0ONTENTS. Catalogue of the Described Transformations of Australian Lepidoptera. BY

WILLIAM BEUTENMfILLER ......... . . . . 147

Descriptions of the Larva of Three Mosquitoes. By HARRISON G. DYAR . . . 177

The Life-History of Uranoteenia Sapphirina. By HARRISON G. DYAR .179

Notes on Some Spiders of Walkenaer, Koch and others . 182

The Larva of Catocala illecta. By WILLIAM BEUTENMULLER 189

Note on Sesia sigmoidea. By Louis H. JOUTEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Larva of Isochaetes beutenmulleri on Staten Island, N. Y. Louis H. JOUTEL . 190

A Self-Decorating Geometrid Larva. By Louis H. JOUTEL .. .. 191

A New Genus of Sphingicampid Moths Allied to Bunnea. By A. S. PACKARD. . 191

The Larva of Homoptera edusa. By WILLIAM BEUTENMULLER . ... 192

Notes on the Earlier Stages of Lobobunaa phe&usa. By WILLIAM BEUTENMULLER -193

Habits of Eudammonia brachyura. By WILLIAM BEUTENMULLER . . . . . . . 194

Proceedings of the Now York Entomological Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Obituary Notice of Herman Strecker, Ph.D. . . .200

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1.90 JOURNAL NEW YORK ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Vol. IX.

NOTE ON SESIA SIGMOIDEA.

By LOUIS H.- JOUTEL.

The history and food-habits of Sesia sikmoidea seem to be im

perfectly understood as Mr. Beutenmiiller in his monograph of the

Sesiidie says of this species, " said to be found on willow, but we have

no definite knowledge of its breeding in this plant," so that these few

notes may be of interest.

Having need of some willow leaves I brought home a few plants

of Salix disco/or and planted them in the garden. They were infested

in part by the imported Cryptorhynchus lapat/li which I killed. No

ticing some time after that a few of the branches were dying they were

examined for more weevils, but instead a Sesia larva was found at work

near the ground. A closer examination of the plants revealed several

more larvae. These were left at work and examined from time to time

to note progress. Late in August the larval pupated and shortly after

prodticed Sesia s:,ginoidea.

LARVA OF ISOCHASETES BEUTENMULLERI ON STATEN ISLAND, N. Y.

By Louis H. JOUTEL.

This beautiful larva was rather strangely discovered on September

I, I9OI, while collecting with Mr. Wim. T. Davis on Staten Island.

We sat down by the side of a wood path to eat lunch, and while

complaining of the lack of insects my attention was attracted to a

bluish patch on the ground in front of me. While looking at it I

thought that if I were in Florida or Washington I would take it (the

patch) for a larva of I. beu/enmiil/eriof which Dr. Dyar had shown me

examples. Finishing my lunch I decided to examine it, and was sttr

prised to find that it was the cast-off horns of that species. We im

me.diately looked overhead and discovered several larvae still feeding

on the Qiiercuspa/ustris under which we were sitting. The recorded observations of this species other than the above are

as follows: A single female (the type) taken by Wm. Beutenmiiller in

Florida in I887. Several larve found by Dr. Dyar near Washington,

D. C., in I898 from which he raised a male.

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