April, '09] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



Papilio turnus (Linn.)- Common. One taken that very closely ap- 

 proaches the description of P. rutulus. 



Papilio turnus, form glaucits (Linn.). Not common. 



Papilio cresphontes (Cramer). Common. Three full grown larvae 

 were brought to me on October 8, 1907. The following day, I drove out 

 into the country to where they had been taken, and found that they 

 had been feeding on the leaves of a small prickly ash bush in the 

 dooryard of a farm house. The bush was almost denuded of foliage. 

 The farmer told me that on the preceding Sunday, when he first dis- 

 covered them, that he had killed "about a hundred." I found several 

 that he had not killed and brought them away with me, with the few 

 remaining prickly ash leaves. The leaves were soon gone, and I suc- 

 ceeded in raising the larvae to maturity on the leaves of a potted 

 orange tree. The chrysalids and images of those raised to maturity 

 on orange leaves were not as large as those raised on a steady diet of 

 prickly ash leaves. 



Papilw asterias (Fab.). The commonest Papilio. 



Papilio troilus (Linn.). Common. 



Papilio philenor (Linn.). Fairly common. 



Epargyreus tityrus (Fab.). Common; the larvae are abundant on 

 Wisteria and common locust. 



Thorybes py lades (Scud.). Two specimens taken in woods. 



Thorybes bathyllus (Smith & Abbot). Common among the red 

 clover blossoms. 



Hesperia montivaga (Reak). Large quantities of string beans are 

 raised near Circleville for the canning factories. This species was 

 found to be common in the bean fields where the 9 $ may have been 

 ovipositing. Roadside mud puddles are favorite places for this species. 



Pholisora catullus (Fab.). Common at mud puddles in roads. 



Thanoas brizo (Boisd. & Lee.). Took two $ $ and a $ April 26, 

 1908. They were feeding in company with the following species at the 

 blossoms of spring beauties (Claytonia virginica) and spreading phlox 

 (Phlox Carolina). 



Thanoas juvenalis (Fab.). Several taken. 



Thanoas perseus (Scud.). Not common. 



Ambliscirtes vialis (Edw.). One specimen taken in 1907. 



Ancyloxypha numitor (Fab.). Very common along the grassy banks 

 of ditches. 



Polites peckius (Kirby). Common in the clover fields. 



Limochores pontiac (Edw.). One 9 taken. 



Limochores taumus (Fab.). Common in fields and weedy places. 

 They seem to be especially common about jewel weeds near streams. 



A try tone sabulon (Boisd. & Lee.). Common about blackberry blos- 

 soms in woods in the springtime. 



