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April 1888.1 PSYCHE. 43
PSYCHE.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., APRIL 1888.
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GONIA SENILIS WILLISTON.
I had the good fortune to find two speci- mens of this pretty species of fachtm'dcze in the L8w collection from Texas.
The species was described in the number
of the Canadian entomologist for January 1887 from a single specimen from western Kansas. The specimens that Iexamined agree with the description in all respects except in the coloration of the abdomen. In one of them the abdomen was wholly black, with
the ordinary pilose bands along the edge of each segment, appearing very much like that of Gouia frontosa Say. The other specimen on thecontrary, had a large amount of red on the abdomen, reminding one of the abdomen of Go& exul Williston, there being only a median line black in the first, second and third segments, and even a trace of redon the base of the fourth. The only other difference observable between these two specimens was the slightly smaller size, shorter wings and less number of black hairs on the base of the antennae, in the second specimen.
There can be no doubt, I think, that these specimens are Goniosenite Williston, because of the agreement in all characters except the color of the abdomen ; and, besides, this char- acter is variable in the other species of this genus, but never as far as I know, to any- where near the extent that it is in this species. C: W: Woodwo~th.
THREE RARE ENTOMOLOGICAL
WORKS.
The library of the Museum of comparative zoology at Harvard university has lately obtained the following rare works.
The author's original copy of Townend .
Glover's "'Engraved plates of his Illustrations of North American entomology, colored by the hand of the author; also a few original drawings." These are in five quarto volumes. By the same author, "Original drawings,
principally of cotton insects and other insects injurious or beneficial to agriculture." In two octavo volumes. "Only 15 copies of
these plates were printed for private distribu- tion. The drawings are dated 1854 to 1857. A number of plates of lepidoptera are added, produced by the mechanical transference of the wing-kcales to paper."
By the same author, "Proofs from ten early copper plates, the author's first attempt at an illustrated work on entomology."
EGG-LAYING OF LIMENITIS DISIP-
PUS.
Mr. Scudder asks (PSYCHE, v. 3, p. 30) if I am "confident that the several eggs on a given leafwere all laid by the same butterfly." I cannot be absolutely sure of the first one laid on the leaf having four eggs, for that I did not see deposited-as I did the others- owing to the steepness of the bank and the low poplars which were abundant enough to- impede my progress.
The eggs all hatched within twenty-four
hours after the first larva appeared.
There was more difference in their pupa- tion, the first and last being four days apart; and in their emerging' there was a difference of six days between the first and last.
My whole experience with L. disifjus was a surprise to me, for I had found but one or two larvae before last summer and had never seen the eggs, while, last summer, I found more larvae of L. disi-t-pus than of any other butterfly, and found so many eggs, on poplar leaves, that I gave up collecting them.
Caroline G. Soule.




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