156 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 'l6 



Pieris napi, aberrant form virginiensis? Edwards. (Lep.). 



Another butterfly new to me, P. napi virginiensis, fell to my 

 lot this year, making three new butterflies in one season. Six 

 specimens of this species were secured on the Oregon road. 

 They are somewhat smaller and weaker fliers than P. rapae 

 and are readily told from them and as easily taken with the 

 net. 



Abundance of Melitaea phaeton Drury. (Lep.). 



This butterfly has always been rare with me until this year. 

 One or two specimens each season was all that I could pos- 

 sibly obtain even by the most strenuous hunting. These single 

 specimens I always found on swampy land in Oregon. This 

 year I was fortunate in discovering a new place for this spe- 

 cies on the road to Meriden. While walking along this road I 

 saw a single specimen around a wet place in the road and after 

 taking it noticed two more further along, then three, then sev- 

 eral more. Knowing their habits I began to investigate and 

 found their gathering place in a marshy field of grass about 

 three feet high on the side of the road. Phaeton was here in 

 abundance flying lazily around and alighting on the blades of 

 grass. I took thirty on July nth inside of fifteen minutes; on 

 the 1 2th I took twenty and thirty-five more on the T3th. All 

 this helps to prove the theory that nothing is rare if you know 

 where to find it. 



Tenacity of Life in the Spice Bush Silk Moth. (Lep.). 



On returning home from work one July noon, I noticed an 

 unfamiliar object through motions made by an insect which 

 was partly concealed in the leaves near the house. On a closer 

 inspection I found it to be a Callosamia promcthca which I 

 had taken the previous day and had thrown away after sup- 

 posedly killing it. The family cat seeing the specimen had 

 deprived it of its head, all the legs and three of its wings, leav- 

 ing only the body and one wing and the insect apparently dead 

 at the time. That it was not dead was proven by its lively 

 actions when I rediscovered it. It kept up continual motion, 

 the lone wing flopping from side to side, causing the body to 

 jump around somewhat resembling a sailboat in a choppy sea. 



