Dec., '06] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 379 







are the following : Wings broad, anal angle strongly rectangu- 

 lar. Eyes of male contiguous. Arista, nearly one-half the 

 length of the third antennal joint, its basal segment much 

 thickened and many times longer than the minute, bristle-like 

 apical portion. Dorsum of thorax with the usual rows of small 

 but distinct macrochaetse ; those of the scutellar margin larger 

 and six in number. Hypopygium terminal, small, but open, 

 consisting of a pair of lateral slender curved and pointed valves, 

 surrounding the sharp penis, and a basal dorsal pair of erect 

 prongs, like those of Iteaphlla, etc. 



A new variety of Papilio rutulus Boisd. 



. BY HENRY SKINNER. 

 Papilio rutulus arcticus. 



Smaller than rutulus, expanding from the centre of the thorax to the 

 tip of the primary wing 43 mm. Orange spot at angle of secondaries 

 large and distinct, generally absent in rutnlus. Marginal lunules of sec- 

 ondaries wider and not so elongate as in rutulus. Blue bands of second- 

 aries below narrower and more distinct. Marginal lunules of secondar- 

 ies below orange, an orange wash running to the cell. 



Described from six males and one female. Five males and 

 one female from Eagle City, Alaska, June ist to i5th. One 

 male from Athabasca River, Canada. 



A New Syntomeida. 



BY HENRY SKINNER. 

 S. befana n. sp. 



Antenna? blue-black, outer third edged with white. Head and thorax 

 blue-black ; vertex of head with metallic-blue patch ; tegukt- and patagia 

 orange-yellow, edged with black ; fore coxae orange ; legs blue-black, 

 with tarsi streaked with white ; abdomen black and metallic-blue ; oval, 

 orange subdorsal patches on the second to the last segment, those on 

 first segment being quadrate ; on abdomen below are orange bands on 

 segments three to six. Forewing with an orange patch in and below 

 middle of cell and a patch beyond the cell. Hindwing with a basal 

 orange patch and a round patch in centre of wing. 



From one specimen taken by Prof. F. H. Snow in the Babo- 

 quivari Mountains, Arizona. The species is related to joc/a 

 Druce. 



