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Psyche 7:403-404, 1894.

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July 1896.)
Wings with opaque streak at distal third of costal margin, the ulnar wea much expanded to the entire exclusion of the distal part of tlie discoidal. Anterior and middle fcniorii of the 2 slender, of the $ stout.
Genital segmentofavet-J like tI1atof.O. vir- idis; ovipositor of $ with the interior tooth of the lower valves smaller than in vi~v'i/i.~f. In color varying from light olivaceous
green to dark greenish brown, with a dark brown stripe from hind margin of ayes along the sides of the pronotnin, sometimes con- tinued upon the humeral field of the tegnien. On the pronotum and head this stripe is
~isually about one-fourth the width of the side of the pronotum but sometimes becomes barely perceptible; it sometimes appears upon the disk as a narrow line just within the lateral carinae of the ~neta.y.aaa.
Antenna. I[. fein. Teg, Teg.<H. fern. l3ody. Total length. cf 7.5-S 10 10.5 2.; 17 16
9 5 12.3 72 4 20.5-21 10
Described from 58, 2 I : 9,
Anglesea, N. J., labelled by Prof.
L. Bniner, received from Prof. J. B.
Smith. I 8, 19, Ravenswood, L. I.,
Beutenmiilier; I 8, Ga. ; I 8. Md. ;
28 without locality ;-all these latter
froin Mr. Scudder's collection.
This species agrees with the clescrip-
tion of occidentalis in the form of the
pronoturn i?lld disposition of the lateral citrinae, but the median carina is not
sufficiently elevated to be properly
culled subcristiform, and the vertex
of the head is distinctly depressed
behind the front nniii-gin, a cliamcter
in which it differs markedly from the
description of mystecus which ocd-
dentalis is stated to closely resemble.
111 superficial appearance the feiniile
recalls the short-winged form of Sen.
cnrti&vzn/s, from which it is readily
distinguished by the absence of foveolae. NOTES ON THE OVTPOSITION OF
THANAOS ICELUS (?).
Mar 27, 1894, at Turkey Hill, Arlington, Mass., I noticed a bpecies of Tl~anaos iht- terinparound a pliint of'Bq5tisiu tmcforia as if to lay eggs, returning to the same plant several times and finally laying a single egg, in two seconds, upon the upper side of a young and tender leaf near the base. This occurred at one o'clock on a warm, sunny clay. Three more eggs were found upon the same plant. By searching, a dozen inorc
such eggs were found, one or two on each plant, nine on one plant, always single -and on the upper surface of the leaf. Numerous eggs were found similarly on May 30, also nests of a young Thanaos on Baptisia. June 3, ti long and careful search revealed abundant nests, but only a single egg, and the iinagos had become rare. The eggs were pure white when laid, turning- pink or oriinge within foul- hours; base flattened, sides little- rounded, summit depressed ; longitudinal ribs ten, transverse ridges wide, prominent, quite conciivc ; at micropyle a. saucer-like depression with hexagonal inargin ; breadth of egg, 0.76 mm.
~ S ~ H S W. Folsom.
CALEPIIELIS IJOKEAL1.S.- Looking over
some miscellaneous entomological material the other day, which material had been cap- tured by some of tlie students for the Station collection during the past summer, in this (Montgomery) County, I came across two
unidentified specimens of Calephelis borea- lis. I closely questioned the student, but he could remember nothing as to date or imme- diate locality, or in fact :mything, save that they had been caught near Blacksburg la~t summer. I note this, for while the butter- fly has been taken in West Virginia. by Mr. W. H. Edwards, I believe this is the first Virginia record, and any information con- cerning this species is desirable.




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