Form same as S. cecropia; number and position of tubercles also the same. General color green; bright yellowish green on dorsal surface; pea green on head, sides and under surface. Length when at rest exactly two and a quarter inches; when in motion almost two and three-quarter inches.

Head pea green, mouth parts pinkish grey, mandibles black.

Dorsal surface-First segment with four small flattened transversely oval warts, consisting of a black ring with a white centre; 2nd, 3rd and 4th segments each with two large bulbous tubercles,cream color,at base; above this there is a raised or swollen ring of black; remainder coral red, with seven upright spines on top; 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th segments each with two simple tubercles, basal half white, remainder bright yellow.

On the night of the 7th of last June my wife captured at light a fine female Samia columbia. The moth was at once secured, her wings pinioned, and she was placed in a cage with the hope that specimens of the other sex might be attracted, but none made their appearance; and on the night of the 12th she laid five eggs, glueing them to the gauze on the side of the cage, two in one place and three in another. During the following day (13th) none were laid, but on the night of the 13th she laid fourteen more in several different clusters, and on the night of the 14th she aid six more. None were laid during the following day and night, and as she was injuring herself with the pinion, she was killed and spread. Whether she would have laid any more had she been kept longer, or whether she had laid any before her capture, I cannot say.

G. thoracefasciella Cham.

Sometimes the thorax is ochreous with a transverse brown band between the wings, instead of brown with an ochrey band, and the wings are blotched irregularly with ochreous. The proportion of the two colors varies.

G. ochrestrigella Cham.

In one specimen sent to me by Mr. Behrens the entire space from the end of the cell to the apex. between two of the discal branch veins, is brown.

Grupholitha taleana, n. s.

♂.Fore wings brownish fuscous; under the glass the scales are seen to be blackish with white tips. Thorax concolorous. Fore wings, with three orange-ochre costal lines; the outer two ante-apical, outwardly oblique and joining a marginal line of the same color; the inner a little less oblique, just without the middle of the wing. The marginal line only extends to the outer border of a black patch situate below the median fold and containing four or five ochre dots. Fringes silky, concolorous with the wings. Hind wings a little darker than primaries, immaculate. Beneath concolorous brownish fuscous, with the exterior margins of both wings shaded with pale. Costa of primaries above at apices narrowly yellowish, enclosing fuscous streaklets. No costal fold.

Agrotis Hilliana, n, s. ♀. All the tibiæ spinose. Allied to perconflua, but much brighter colored and with larger and distinctly annulated stigmata. Bright rusty ochre, shaded with lilac gray. A fine black basal streak reaches to the small black marginal claviform. Base of the wing ochreous,basal half line double, the inner line distinct blackish brown. Sub-basal space washed with lilac gray. Inner transverse line a little oblique, nearly straight with a slight outward curve below submedian vein on the margin, double, the outer line distinct, the inner fades out below costa. Median space rusty ochre; orbicular large, ochreous, with faint internal annulus, oblique, ringed with black; reniform similar in color, upright,very near the exterior line, which commences on the costa just above it. Exterior line lunulate, nearly straight, faintly indicated below costa. Sub-terminal space dark, washed anteriorly with lilac gray, contrasting with clear ochreous terminal space and fringes. Hind wings pale ochreous with faint lunule and double shaded lines. Abdomen above pale ochreous. Thorax rusty and dark. Head and collar pale ochreous.