1893-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. Ill 



bare, sandy road, where, with closed wings, they very nearly 

 resembled in color that of the buff colored surface, and were not 

 easily seen. A still greater protection was afforded when claudia 

 alighted on the now Autumn-tinted leaves of Five-finger (Poten- 

 tilla canadensis], the colors of which was the counterpart of its 

 own underside of both pairs of wings. I had the greatest diffi- 

 culty to locate claudia, when it flew for protection to Cinquefoil 

 a perfect mimicry. When feeding on blue Asters it became 

 an easy victim. 



I must now record the taking of C. eubule by my young scholar 

 of Astoria. His house stands in a garden full of flowering plants 

 from the time the Snowdrops and Crocuses open until Chrysan- 

 themums close the floral season. It is visited by many Lepidop- 

 tera, and often rarities. On Oct. 5, 1892, he took the first $ 

 eubule on flowers of a scarlet Geranium. His mother hastily in- 

 formed him of a new arrival, and, being a little hasty, startled 

 the insect, so that it flew high in the air, circled about for a mo- 

 ment and descended upon the same truss of flowers before he 

 had left the spot, and was quickly netted. The next capture of 

 eubule occurred on the loth, from flowers of a red Indian Shot 

 {Canna Indicd). Another specimen he took on the i4th of Oc- 

 tober from the flowers of Nasturtium, and his fourth on the i5th 

 from a scarlet-flowering- Nasturtium. The last three captures 

 were easily made. Of these one is a 9 , and two of the number 

 fair specimens. A which I received is almost perfect. He 

 likewise took in this garden, later on in October, two specimens 

 of Vanessa milbertii, one a 9 without a blemish, and a rather 

 the worse "for wear. One of these was taken on a Chrysanthe- 

 mum. Both Callidryas eubule and Vanessa milbertii are rare in 

 this vicinity. 



Mr. J. Mohus saw several eubule flying high near Bay Ridge, 

 L. I., this Autumn. The same entomologist took a great rarity 

 for this latitude in October last in the upper part of New York 

 City. It was Thysania zenobia, which he took off a high tree 

 resting in the posture of a Geometrid, and which he was inclined 

 to think it was, until shown to me. In color it is good, but infe- 

 riors badly torn. I think it is a female specimen. The exact 

 shade of this fine insect I would liken to a cinereous-pink, the 

 color of ashes of a red-ash coal, which, with its horizontal bars 

 of black, produces a fine contrast. 



