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Psyche 6:530, 1891.

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PSYCHE. [October ISM.
therefore, to regard the climatic forms
characters, but differ only slightly and of Gluphisia as permanent, probably
in unessential particulars from the first produced by the action of natural selec- described species.
tion to fit them to their surroundings.
I give below Dr. Packard's arrange-
I class them as local races, by which I
ment of Gluphisia and my own in par-
mean that they are constant in their
allel columns.
Packard's Arrangement,
G. trilineata Pack.
var. ridenda Hy. Ed.
rufta Hy. Ed.
G. albofascia Hy. Ed.
formosa Hy. Ed.
G. wi-ightii Hy. Ed.
severa Hy. Ed.
danbyi Neum.
avimacula Huds.
var. sloskoniae Pack.
G. lintneri Grt.
Byar's Arrangement.
I. G. trilineata Pack.
race ridenda Hy. Ed.
race quinquelinea Dyar.
2. G. albofascia Hy. Ed.
wyigAfii Hy. Edw.
var. rupta Hy. Ed.
3. G. formosa Hy. Ed.
4. G. severa Hy. Ed.
var. danbyi Neum.
race avimacula Huds.
var. slossonii Pack.
5. G. lintneri Grt.
In tabular form, I separate the species as follows :- Size small ; no basal yellow dot (4 Gluphi$a). With a yellow (or black) central band on primaries. Markings distinct . . tyilineata.
Markings confused and irrorate . . fomsa. Pale, with no distinct yellowish markings . . albofascia. Size large; a basal yellow dot on median vein ($ Eumelia) , A yellow angular discal dot
,
No yellow discal dot .
severa.
lintneri.
NOTES.-~~ September 12th I caught, in
Brookline, Mass., a large, battered Papilio cresfhonfes, which was flying rather feebly about some Salvias. It is the only one I have seen flying in Massachusetts.
At Nonquitt, Mass., Miss Ida M. Eliot and I had two larvae, Arctians unknown to us and certainly not acrea, of a cream-white color. The body was cream-white with three broken, blackish, longitudinal lines. There were no dark hairs. These larvae we fed on wild indigo-plant, Bafitisia tincforia, and after a few days the larger larva moulted, coming out of a deep, glossy, indigo-blue color, almost black. The smaller larva first moulted ofa deep-blue gray color, then again of a deep blue like the other. These larvae grew to a length of nearly 3 inches, and were very striking in appearance.
Caroline G. Soule.




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