

VOL XXIV. LONDON, MARCH, 1S92. No. 3. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON BUTTERFLIES, LARV^, ETC. 



BY W. H. EDWARDS, COALBURGH, WEST VA. 



1. An albino male Colias Philodice. 



I received this example from Mr. H. E Wilford, of Batavia, N.Y.. 

 last fall. Mr. Scudder, Butt. N. E., p. 1286, says: — '-Instances of 

 albinism are confined, so far as we yet know, to the Rhodoceridi " (which 

 term he uses to include Colias, under his name oi Eurymus), "and to the 

 female sex." In colour this male is white, with no tint of yellow ; the 

 borders of both wings are of median width, and solid — in all respects like 

 the usual border of the yellow male. It was taken at Batavia last 

 summer. Mr. Wilford wrote that at the time albino females were unusual- 

 ly plentiful. 



2. An abnormal Papilio Asterias. 



Mr. David Bruce sent me several larvpe o{ Asterias from Platte Canon, 

 Colorado, ist August, 1891, and I reared them to imago. One of these 

 butterflies is a male by its body and claspers ; female, by its wings. The 

 male Asterias has two longitudinal abdominal rows of yellovvish spots, 

 sub-dorsal and lateral, and this example shows these rows, and no other 

 yellow markings ; the female Asterias has not only the same two rows, 

 but a semi-row on either side the mid-ventral line on the three or four 

 last segments. The hindwings are of the usual type of the female 

 Asterias, and therefore without the mesial yellow band, which belongs to 

 the male. The forewings are destitute of this yellow band, and also of 

 the extra or discal row of yellow spots to be found in both sexes of 

 Asterias. The submarginal row of yellow spots is present, but the spots 

 are very small. So that the only yellow found on the forewing is in these 

 submarginal spots. On the under side of the forewings, however, the 

 extra discal spots are present, and the spots of the submarginal row are 

 as large as is usual ini female Asterias. Mr. Scudder says, p. 1759 : 

 "Specimens showing a ;.:'ngling of the characters of the two sexes, called 



