130 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March, '13 



A New Form of Hemileuca burnsi (Saturn., Lep.) 



J. HENRY WATSON, Withington, Manchester, England. 



H. burnsi ab. paradoxa n. ab. 



Abdomen less black than typical burnsi, with the first two segments 

 above heavily sprinkled with reddish hairs. (Other females of 

 burnsi also have these reddish hairs in a less degree.) Ground color of 

 al! wings very pale buff, not white. The apex dark lilac-brown in color, 

 more heavily marked. The costal margin lightened between the two 

 black bands by having long white hairs interspersed; the outer margin 

 beyond the sub-marginal stripe darkened with the same scales as apex. 



Hind wings similarly (though less heavily) marked beyond the black 

 marginal line. Fringes of wings color of apex and showing as a dark 

 line. (I have a female of typical burnsi which has the margins of 

 wings black and fringes white). 



Wings below similar but more heavily marked than above; the whole 

 of hind wings being this lilac-brown color, which resembles almost the 

 shade of heavily-marked specimens of male Euleucopheas oliviae 

 (Ckll.), which, however, have always noticeably pale fringes. 



Type. One female emerged from a two-year pupa, Sept. 

 27, 1912. Taken at Reno, Nevada. In coll. J. Henry Watson. 



What can be the reason of such a variation I do not know, 

 unless it may show the affinity to Euleucopheas oliviae and 

 tricolor, but from which H. burnsi and neumoegeni (Edw.) 

 may be at once separated by the shorter antennae of the male. 



Since this specimen emerged, I at once examined my series 

 of burnsi, which is a fairly long one; and I find one or two 

 specimens have just a few scattered scales of this color on the 

 upper surface, near the post-discal black line, and with the 

 under surface darkened chiefly on veins with these smoky 

 lilac scales, all being females. 



Photographs of Entomologists desired. 



The Entomological Section of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural 

 Sciences desires for its entomological album the photograph of every 

 entomological student. The collection contains over 300 at this date. 

 A list was published in the NEWS 1902, pages 45-47. of those in the 

 album at that time. We hope that those who can do so will write their 

 names and date of birth on the back of each photo, along with any 

 other information concerning themselves they may wish to impart. 



