246 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September, 



Peculiar form of Argynnis erinna Ed\\. 

 By Prof. ED. T. OWEN. 



Size, form and colors of Arg. erinna, in whose habitat it was taken. 

 On the fore wing, on a strip one-fourth of an inch wide from apex to pos" 

 terior angle; the usual black markings appear but faintly suggested; this 

 absence of black is compensated by considerable black venation. On the 

 rest of the wing the usual black marks are heavily confluent. The hind 

 wing has a similar strip of like width on which venation marks alone ap- 

 pear. The black markings within are again equally confluent. Corre- 

 sponding modifications exist on lower surfaces, except that on both fore 

 and hind wings there has been an effort to fuse the outer row of silver 

 spots with the next adjacent silver spots, which has resulted in a washing 

 of the usual tawny band with yellow. 



Hab. Klamath County, Oregon. 



In the hope that this aberrant form may recur, I venture to 



name it cunninghami, after the gentleman who captured it. 



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Note on a Tick from the Ear of a Coyote. 



By C. H. TYLER TOWNSEND. 



A coyote was shot by the writer on the evening of Aug. 3, 

 1892, near La Vega de San Jose, in Valencia County, N. Mex. 

 The ears were immediately cut off and tied outside upon the top 

 of a high covered wagon to dry in the sun. In this isolated po- 

 sition they remained uninterruptedly until August 6th, when they 

 had begun to smell. On this date there was found in close prox- 

 imity to them a tick, which must have proceeded from them. It 

 was small, shrunken, and apparently lifeless when found, its size 

 being due to its empty condition. It was evidently a little more 

 than half grown. Any one who is familiar with the habits of 

 ticks will probably agree with me that this specimen came from 

 the ears of the coyote, since there is hardly a chance that it could 

 have reached its situation in any other way. It may have left the 

 ears of its own accord, or perhaps it was shaken from them by 

 the jolting of the wagon, which had been continuously on the 

 road during the three days. Following is a description of the tick : 



Tick from Coyote's Ear. Length 2^ mm.; anterior width, \ l / 2 mm. 

 Coriaceous, grayish or bluish, thickly covered with well- developed spines 

 on anterior half of dorsum especially, also on sternal portion of venter. 

 Mouth-parts nearly the same as in the tick from horses' ears (Jour. N. V. 

 Ent. Soc. i, No. 2, June, 1893), the fourth joint of palpi considerably 

 shorter than the third joint. The spiny anterior portion of body projects 

 .anteriorly, in a rounded median angle, over the capitulum, the mouth- 



