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white, whereas in the original description it is referred to as 

 having a single white line outwardly. The first two were 

 taken on the 6th near Lake Hollandsworth, where the country 

 was tolerably dry, either on the hill up from the lake or in 

 a grove which was also high and dry; and the third specimen 

 was taken in similar upland oak country near Lake Parker. 



Mrs. Slosson has also given me the only known fact con- 

 cerning the life history. To quote her letter: "I found a 

 greenish slug-like larva on oak (species of Quercus uncer- 

 tain) in May, 1904. It was torpid and became a chrysalis 

 almost at once, so I made no detailed description. My speci- 

 men is a female and shows the inner white line faintly on 

 discal bands of both wings." This larva was taken at Jack- 

 sonville, Florida. 



The character of the inner discal white line is an interest- 

 ing development, so far known only in the female specimens, 

 which occur both with and without it. Whether this is of 

 sufficient value to warrant a varietal name is an open question 

 in my mind. If we may judge from T. calanus, the nearest 

 ally to T. wittfeldii, the presence or absence of this inner line 

 is subject to the utmost variability and is not now considered 

 of varietal significance in that species. 



These new records are of considerable interest as they ex- 

 tend the range of the species by three more definite localities 

 and indicate the season in which to be on the watch for the 

 species. 



The original description of T. wittfeldii appeared in the 

 Canadian Entomologist. Vol. XV, page 136, and Mr. William 

 H. Edwards mentions only the year of capture, 1883. The 

 types, which are three males and one female, are in the pos- 

 session of Dr. W. J. Holland in Pittsburgh, and there are 

 specimens from the original catch in the Henry Edwards col- 

 lection at the American Museum of Natural History in New 

 York City, and in the collection of Dr. Skinner at the Acad- 

 emy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. These last speci- 

 mens are one male and two females taken in June, 1882, by 

 Dr. Wittfeld at Georgiana, on the Indian River, Florida. 



I should be much interested to hear of any other records of 



