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Volume 28, Number 4
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Andre Blanchard; Dr. C. V. Covell, Jr.; Dr. R. B. Dominick; Mr. C. P. Kimball; and Mr. Bryant Mather.
Remarks. I have also seen 3 specimens regarded as too poor to include in the type series. These are as follows: 1$, Montgomery Co., Virginia, 1 June 1901; 1$, Renfro Valley, Kentucky, 25 May 1955; 1$, Quincy, Gadsden Co., Florida, 8 November 1966.
Semiothisa promiscuata superficially resembles S. regulata (F.) of Central and South America, but the genitalia of the latter species are very different, more so than those of aemulataria or any of the closely related North American species. The greatly enlarged, swollen, male hind tibia is generally characteristic of the genus Semiothisa, and the members of the aemulataria group (Philobia) are unusual in not having the hind leg modified in this way.
Literature Cited
Morrison, H. K. 1874. New North American Lepidoptera. Proc. Boston Soc.
Nat. Hist. 16: 194-203. Walker, F. 1861. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection
of the British Museum 23: 753-1020.
A FURTHER NOTE ON THE ACCEPTABILITY OF AN ALTERNATE
FOODPLANT FOR HEMILEUCA MAIA (DRURY)
(SATURNIIDAE)
Information to verify the acceptability of foodplants other than Quercus for Hemileuca maia Drury was given by Smith (1974, J. Lepid. Soc. 28: 142-145). The author mentions the successful rearing of maia on a species of Salix (willow) in 1972, from Albany Co., New York livestock collected on scrub oak, and supplied by me. That same year, using some of the ova from the egg mass sent to Capt. Smith, I reared maia on Salix (weeping willow). The larvae were fed on this food-plant from the beginning, not transferred to it after having been started on Quercus, as in the case of Capt. Smith's program. My adults, too, emerged in September the same year, and were exceptionally large specimens.
Irwin Leeuw, 1219 Crystal Lake Road, Cary, Illinois 60013.