ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. i. DECEMBER, 1890. No. 10. 



CONTENTS: 



French Another Tropical Species of Liebeck Cicindelidae of a Season 158 



Lepidoptera in Florida 153 Notes and News 160 



Holland African Hesperidae 155 Entomological Literature 162 



P. P. C. Elementary Entomology 157 Doings of Societies 167 



ANOTHER TROPICAL SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA 



IN FLORIDA. 



By G. H. FRENCH, Carbondale, 111. 



In the September number of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, p. 105, 

 Mr. Dyar describes two species of insects new to our fauna, Cal- 

 lidryas statira and Composia fidelissima. I have had for about 

 a year another species of Composia collected in Florida by Prof. 

 Velie, of Chicago, during the Winter of 1888 and 1889, and sent 

 to me by my friend, Mr. W. E. Longley, of the same city. Not 

 having the means of identifying the specimen I sent a colored 

 print of it to Mr. A. G. Butler, of London, who writes that it is 

 Composia olyuipia Butl. From comparison of Mr. Dyar's de- 

 scription with my specimen it seems to be closely related to C. 

 fidelissima. The following figure and description will show the 

 points of difference. 



Composia olympia Butl. Expanse 2.5 inches. Black, the fore 

 wings with three bright scarlet, nearly quadrate spots between 

 the costal and subcostal veins, extending from the base to the 

 middle of the cell; a square white spot beyond the third scarlet 

 one; just beyond the end of the cell a transverse row of six white 

 spots of varying size, the last the largest and a little below the 



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